Reconstruction Vocabulary and People to Know
Authored by Keith Sullivan
Social Studies
6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Radical Republican
Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans
Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction
Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Carpetbaggers
Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans
Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction
Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Scalawags
Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans
Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction
Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Freedmen's Bureau
Group in Congress who strongly opposed slavery and wanted to punish the South for the Civil War. They supported the Reconstruction Amendments and rights for African Americans
Nickname given to Northerners who moved South to profit during Reconstruction
Term for Southern Republicans or Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
Established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South after the Civil War
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Constitutional Amendment that officially ended slavery in the US forever
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Constitutional Amendment, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding states from restricting the basic rights of citizens
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Constitutional Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
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