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Reconstruction Cards
For the Test on the 3rd of October in History.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment | Banned slavery in the United States |
| Civil Rights act of 1866 | Guaranteed citizenship to everyone born in the U.S and sent federal troops to the South to make sure African American rights were insured. |
| 14th Amedment | Guaranteed citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. and gave them due process under the law |
| What does 'due process under the law' mean? | When you get in trouble, you will get the same amount of punishment as anyone else doing the same crime. |
| 15th Amendment | Guaranteed voting rights to all citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
| What amendments are known as the Reconstruction/Slavery Amendments because they gave citizenship and rights to African-Americans? | These 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments |
| What is Reconstruction and how long did it last? | Reconstruction is the term for the period in American history right after the Civil War. Reconstruction lasted 12 years. |
| What is a Black code? | Southern states adopted Black Codes to limit the freedoms of former slaves. This was at a state level. |
| What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866? | The Civil Rights Act of 1866 gave equal rights and citizenship to everyone born in the US (specifically African-American). It also send federal troops to enforce and protect African-American rights. |
| What was the Freedmen's Bureau and what did it do? | The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to aid former slaves in the South (It was a government agency). It gave freed men and women food, shelter, medicine, clothing, and helped them get jobs. |
| Who was and was not able to hold political office after the Civil War? | Slaves were allowed to hold political office, and southern military leaders (Robert E. Lee) could not hold political office because they did a treason. |
| Who is a carpetbagger? | Someone who moves from the North to the South to take advantage of the Southern economy. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Was the president of the United States during the Civil War. Created a Reconstruction plan calling for reconciliation and for the South to be forgiven. Wanted to preserve the Union and believed that the Southern states did not secede but rebelled. |
| Frederick Douglas | Fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights, Was a former slave and famous speaker for African American rights, Was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all |
| Robert E. Lee | Leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Wanted Southerners to rejoin the Union with no bad feelings, Became the president of Washington College |
| What is racial segregation? | To be separated by race. |
| What is the meaning of race? | Means to be judged by your heritage. |
| What are Jim Crow Laws? | Jim Crow Laws were national laws that made discrimination practices legal. |
| What Supreme Court Case upheld that segregation was legal as long as conditions were “Separate but equal”? | Plessy .vs. Ferguson (1896) |
| Booker T. Washington | Accepted social segregation, Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education, Was a teacher, Was a author, Was a speaker |
| W.E.B. Dubois | Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans, Founded the NAACP along with Ida Wells Barnett, Was a teacher, Was a author, Was a speaker, Believed in the “Talented Tenth” should lead the African American people |
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