Wanted to humiliate the southern elite by requiring them to ask for a presidential pardon.

Promised if 10% of the people of a state would pledge their allegiance to the United States and ratify the 13th amendment, they could form a new state government.

Wanted to ensure that the Civil War had not been fought in vain and that freed slaves would indeed be free.

Passed a bill extending the Freedman's Bureau so that it could protect the rights of freedmen against the Black Codes.

Amendment that freed the slaves

Amendment that overturned the Dred Scott Decision.

Amendment that recognized the rights of all Americans to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Amendment that gave all males the right to vote.

Amendment that recognized the rights of all citizens to "equal protection of the law."

Which of the following is NOT something the freedmen did during Reconstruction?

A person, either a freedman or poor landless white person, who was given a piece of land to work in exchange for a share of the crop.

Provided food, clothing, medical care, education, and some protection from the hostile environment in the South.

A social organization of ex-Confederate soldiers that used violence, intimidation and voter fraud to keep African Americans from exercising their rights under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

A collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities

Appeared throughout the south as a legal way to put Black citizens into indentured servitude, to take voting rights away, to control where they lived and how they traveled, and to seize children for labor purposes.

Poor Southern whites who cooperated with the Republican government in the South but remained in a position of social inferiority.

Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of the South. Some came as missionaries and entrepreneurs to help educate the freedmen and rebuild the economy of the South.

What was the most important contribution of the Freedman's Bureau in the South?

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?