Question | Answer |
What is the 13th Amendment? | Bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories. |
What is the 14th Amendment? | Grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law. |
What is the 15th Amendment? | Ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. |
Who urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war and reunite as Americans? | Robert E. Lee |
Who believed that preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South? | Abraham Lincoln |
The 12 year period after the Civil War (1865 to 1877) was | Reconstruction |
Abraham Lincoln wanted forgiveness or | Reconciliation. |
Who was a strong voice for human rights/civil liberties? | Frederick Douglass |
What were the government offices set up to help freed slaves called? | The Freedman's Bureau. |
Who were sent to control and supervise the South? | Federal troops (Northern soldiers). |
What were the Northerners who came to the South called? | Carpetbaggers. |
What does N.A.A.C.P. stand for? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
What were the states law that were used to restrict rights and freedoms of African Americans? | Black Codes |
Where were Federal (Northern) troops sent to supervise after the Civil War? | The South |
What law was passed by Congress during the Reconstruction Era that made discrimination illegal? | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
What was the purpose of the N.A.A.C.P.? | To end segregation laws and discrimination against blacks. |
What were laws passed in the Southern States AFTER Reconstruction ended that required racial segregation? | Jim Crow Laws |
What does discrimination mean? | To treat people differently |
What is segregation? | Separation of people of different groups- usually by race. |
What is a legacy? | What one leaves for later generations |
Preservation of the Union was which leaders' MOST important goal? | Abraham Lincoln |
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment attempt to do? | Guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens. |
What ended Reconstruction? | The election of 1876 |
Where were the Federal troops removed from in 1877? | The South. |
Which leader: 1. Reconstruction plan called for reconciliation 2. Was the President during the Civil War 3. Thought that Preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South? | Abraham Lincoln. |
Which leader: 1. Urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners 2. Wanted to reunite as Americans and stop fighting 3. was President of Washington and Lee University? | Robert E. Lee |
Which leader: 1. Wanted constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights 2. Was a powerful voice for human rights 3. Was a powerful voice for civil liberties for all? | Frederick Douglass |
Which African American leader believed: 1. that the time was not right to fight segregation 2. that there should be more schools that taught trade skills and 3. founded the Tuskegee Institute? | Booker T. Washington (BTW) |
Which African American leader believed: 1. should demand full equal rights IMMEDIATELY 2. wanted to increase the number of African Americans with college degrees and 3. founded the N.A.A.C.P? | W.E.B Du Bois (WEB D) |
What Supreme Court case established "separate but equal" segregation? | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
After Reconstruction, what allowed Jim Crow laws to continue to spread? | Plessy vs. Ferguson's "Separate but Equal" segregation |