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Reconstruction
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©Norman Herr, 2000
Vocabulary-100
• Tax required before a person can vote.
• What is a poll tax?
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Vocabulary- 200
• Examination to see if a person can read
and write; used to restrict voting rights.
• What is a literacy test?
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Vocabulary-300
• Law that excused a voter from a literacy
test if his father or grandfather had been
eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.
• What is the Grandfather Clause?
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Vocabulary-400
• Southern laws that severely limited the
rights of African Americans after the
Civil War. (Exs: African Americans
could not own guns, serve on juries,
marry a white person)
• What were the Black Codes?
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Vocabulary-500
• Legal separation of people based on
racial, ethnic, or other differences.
• What is segregation?
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People-100
• This man was Lincoln’s Vice President
who became President after Lincoln was
assassinated.
• Who was President Andrew Johnson?
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People-200
• This man created the 10% Plan.
• Who was Abraham Lincoln?
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People-300
• Nickname for a northerner who went to
the South after the Civil War, but had no
interest in government.
• Who was a carpetbagger?
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People-400
• Leader of the Radical Republicans.
• Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
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People-500
• White southerner who supported the
Republicans during reconstruction.
• Who were the scalawags?
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Government-100
• Agency created by the government to
provide food, clothing, and shelter to
freedmen.
• What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
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Government- 200
• This amendment abolished slavery.
• What was the 13th Amendment?
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Government- 300
• All African-American men had the right
to vote under this amendment.
• What was the 15th Amendment?
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Government- 400
• The 14th Amendment guaranteed this
process, which allowed people to be
proven guilty before their rights were
taken away.
• What is due process of law?
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Government- 500
• Former Union general who became
President, during Reconstruction. This
man was not ready for this position.
• Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
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Plans for Reconstruction- 100
• The names of the two presidents who
created plans during Reconstruction.
• Who were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew
Johnson?
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Plans for Reconstruction-200
• This plan called for 10% of the voters to
swear loyalty to the Union, and the
abolishment of slavery.
• What is the 10% Plan?
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Plans for Reonstruction-300
• Which plan called for a majority of white
men to swear loyalty to the Union, and
allowed former Confederate officials to
vote and hold office.
• What is the Johnson Plan ?
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Plans for Reconstruction-400
• Point that the Johnson Plan and WadeDavis Bill differed on.
•What are the rights of the former
Confederates?
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Plans for Reconstruction- 500
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Which of the following was NOT part of the
Reconstruction Act of 1867
1. Southern states had to ratify the 14th
Amendment.
2. Blacks had to be permitted to vote in all
Southern states.
3. Poll taxes and literacy tests were made legal
4. The South was placed under military rule
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What is poll taxes and literacy tests were made
legal?
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Misc.-100
• Plan for Reconstruction that gave
African-Americans the right to vote.
• What was the Reconstruction Act or
Congressional Reconstruction?
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Misc.-200
• Group who used terrorist like tactics to keep
African Americans from using their newly
gained rights.
•What is the Ku Klux Klan?
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Misc.- 300
• Plan for Reconstruction that required
Southern states to write new
constitutions.
• What is the Reconstruction Act?
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Misc. -400
• This group believed that the rights of
freedmen in the South had to be
protected.
• Who were the Radical Republicans?
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Misc.-500
• In Plessy vs Ferguson the Supreme Court
ruled that this was legal as long as the
facilities were “separate but equal”.
• What is segregation?
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Final Jeopardy
• First name of the man Plessy who rode in the
wrong part of the train, and the fraction of his
ancestry that made him considered to be black.
What is Homer and 1/8?
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