RECONSTRUCTION QUIZ – STUDY GUIDE
– The 13th Amendment:
Definition:
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Click here to learn more about the 13th Amendment:
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/the-13th-amendment-video/kenburns-the-civil-war/
– The 14th Amendment:
Definition:
“Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United
States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal
protection of the laws.””
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https://lsintspl3.wgbh.org/en-us/lesson/ilwnet17reconamend/?as_guest=True&next=https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/il
wnet17-soc-us-reconamend/the-reconstruction-amendments/
– The 15th Amendment:
Definition:
Granted African American men the right to vote. Voting rights should not
discriminate based on race or color.
Click here to learn more about the 15th Amendment:
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/reconstruction-15thamendment/reconstruction-the-15th-amendment-and-african-american-men-incongress/
– Black Codes:
Definition:
Southern states passed laws after the Civil War that denied African Americans
basic rights.
Click here to learn more about Black Codes:
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/reconstruction-blackcodes/reconstruction-the-black-codes/
* 3 WAYS TO PREVENT AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM
VOTING:
1 – Poll Tax:
Definition:
Citizens had to pay a tax in order to register to vote.
2 – Literacy Tests:
Definition:
Tests given to citizens to tests their ability to read and write before being able to
vote.
3 – Grandfather Clause:
Definition:
Southern law passed that stated that only men whose grandfathers voted before
1865 to vote. Another way to have African Americans
– Sharecropping:
Definition:
When a landowner allows a person to rent a plot of their land and farm it in
exchange for a share of the crop.
VIDEO ABOUT SHARECROPPING:
https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-system-sharecropping/
- KU KLUX KLAN (KKK):
Definition:
A secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the
Civil War. The goal was to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black
people. The KKK was responsible for many lawless and violent acts.
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PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION:
1 - LINCOLN’S PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION:
- Wanted all southern states to rejoin the Union
quickly.
- Wanted to end slavery.
- Wanted equal rights for blacks and whites.
- Wanted to help rebuild the south by providing help
to poor whites and African Americans through the
Freedman’s Bureau.
- Southern states could be readmitted to the Union if
10% of white citizens took an oath.
- Wanted to be lenient on the southern states in order
to ensure that they rejoined the Union.
2 – Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan:
- Wanted all southern states to rejoin the union
quickly.
- Accepted and enforced the end of slavery.
- Allowed southern states to make their own
“Rebuilding” laws. (Caused Radical Republicans to
get angry).
- Did NOT provide aid to former slaves. (Caused
Radical Republicans to get angry).
- Did NOT want African Americans to have rights.
(Caused Radical Republicans to get angry).
- Supported Black Codes (Caused Radical Republicans
to get angry).
3 – Reconstruction under Radical Republicans.
- Provided the following opportunities for African
Americans:
 The right to vote (for males)
 Property ownership
 Education
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 Legal rights
 Possibility of holding political office.
Believed that the Federal Government needed to
take control over Reconstruction and Freedmen.
Required 50% of states to take an oath to be
readmitted.
They were mad that the south seceded from the
Union and wanted to hold the south accountable
and not be so lenient on them.
Supporters of the Freedmen’s Bureau.