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Reconstruction Study Guide
Vocabulary
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Reconstruction- The period after the Civil War when the South rejoined the
U.S.
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Assassination- The murder of an important leader
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Freedmen’ s Bureau- An organization set up to help former slaves and poor
Southern whites by providing education, legal advice, medical care, food,
and clothing
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Jim Crow Laws- Laws that separated whites from African American
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Sharecropping- A system in which landowners let poor farmers grow crops
on part of their land for a share of the crops.
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Ku Klux Klan- A secret organization that frightened and killed African
Americans
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13th amendment- The amendment that ended slavery in the U.S.
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14th amendment- The amendment that provided citizenship rights for all
former slaves.
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15th amendment- The amendment which gave all men in the U.S. the right
to vote
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1. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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2. Booker T. Washington believed that the key to equal treatment for
African Americans was education.
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3. After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln did not want to punish the South
from seceding from the Union.
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4. Andrew Johnson (did/did not) want to continue Abraham Lincoln’s
Reconstruction Plan.
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5. Radical Republicans were unhappy with Andrew Johnson about the
Black Codes that he allowed to be passed.
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6. Reconstruction officially ended in 1877, however the struggle of equal
rights for African Americans was not over.
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7. The 13th amendment was meant to end slavery in the United States
forever.
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8. Abraham Lincoln’s plan for uniting the country after the Civil War was
for the Confederate states to set up new governments and rejoin the
union. His words and reconstruction plan upset the Radical Republicans
in Congress the most.
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9. The Freedmen’s Bureau was an organization set up by congress to help
former slaves by providing education, food, and other supplies.
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10.The 14th amendment was added to the Constitution to provide
citizenship rights for all former slaves. It was a response to the Black
Codes.
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11.President Andrew Johnson had to go through impeachment trials
because he objected and refused to carry out the tough laws passed
that was strict towards the southern states.
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12.The Black Codes set up in the South after the Civil War were intended
to limit travel, voting, and working rights of newly freed African
Americans.
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13.After the 15th amendment was passed, African Americans immediately
began taking part in government by running for office and voting.
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14.During Reconstruction in the (North/South) many people were poor and
it was hard to earn a living.
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15.Sharecropping was a system that developed in the South to keep the
plantations operating after slavery ended.
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16.Sharecropping was similar to slavery in that the sharecroppers
remained in debt to the landowner and were not independent.
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17.The official end of Reconstruction occurred when President Hayes
ordered government soldiers to leave the South.
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18.In an attempt to keep African Americans from the rights they were
promised by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments the Southern States
passed the Jim Crow Laws.
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19.In 1871 African Americans asked Congress for protection against the
Ku Klux Klan.
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20.The Jim Crow Laws forced the separation of races.