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Reconstruction
VA SOL USII.3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amendment to the US Constitution that banned slavery throughout the nation. | 13th Amendment |
| Amendment to the US Constitution that ensured the citizenship of former slaves. It provides “equal protection of the laws” for all U.S. citizens. | 14th Amendment |
| Amendment to the US Constitution that forbade any state to deny any citizen the right to vote due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Equal protection under the law | 15th Amendment |
| What do all three amendments after the Civil War guarantee for citizens of the United States? | Guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens |
| Period of reuniting the North and the South after the Civil War that lasted from 1865-1876 | Reconstruction |
| Passed by Congress in 1866 to overcome the Black Codes of the South and to provide citizenship for African American | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| Government agency set up during Reconstruction to provide aid for former slaves | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Northerners who went South after the Civil War during the time of Reconstruction | Carpetbaggers |
| Disputed election in which Rutherford B. Hayes was elected US President and which also ended the years of Reconstruction | Election of 1876 |
| His reconstruction plan called for reconciliation & preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South | Abraham Lincoln |
| Former Confederate general who urged Southerners to make peace and reconcile with the North after the end of the Civil War Became president of Washington College, which is now known as Washington and Lee University | Robert E. Lee |
| Fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights & was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all | Frederick Douglass |
| Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of a compromise over the outcome of which event? | Election of 1876 |
| Rights that African Americans had gained were lost through what kind of laws? | Jim Crow Laws |
| Who supervised the South until their removal at the end of Reconstruction? | Northern Soldiers |
| What was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South? | Freedmen's Bureau |
| What did southern states adopted to limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves? | Black Codes |
| Who could not hold office in the South as part of Reconstruction? | Southern Military Leaders |
| Which group of people could hold office in the South for the 1st time during Reconstruction? | African Amerians |
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Mrs. Estes
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