Reconstruction Era

Question 1

13th amendment

Answer 1

Abolished slavery

Question 2

14th amendment

Answer 2

Overturned the Dred Scott Decision, granted equal citizenship to all from U.S., and stopped states from denying citizenship.

Question 3

15th amendment

Answer 3

Granted African American Men the right to vote regardless of ethnicity or prior slave status

Question 4

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 4

Stated all African Americans were not citizens and the constitution did not protect them.

Question 5

Carpetbaggers

Answer 5

Used to describe Northerners who moved to the South for political or economic gain

Question 6

Andrew Johnson

Answer 6

A Southern Democrat chosen by Lincoln to balance the 1864 election, his goal was to bring the Democrat Party back into power. He was the 17th President, and the first to be impeached.

Question 7

1863 Proclamation of Amnesty - 10% plan

Answer 7

Lincoln’s Plan, A state could be readmitted into the Union if 10% of their voters swore an oath that they would end slavery.

Question 8

Sherman’s March

Answer 8

Union General Sherman who led his troops on a destructive march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.

Question 9

Union Pacific

Answer 9

One of the two main railroad companies of the time, combined with Central Pacific to make the Transcontinental Railroad.

Question 10

Central Pacific

Answer 10

One of the two main railroad companies of the time, combined with Union Pacific to make the Transcontinental Railroad.

Question 11

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 11

Created by Union and Central Pacific to make the Transcontinental Railroad, connecting the East and West coasts.

Question 12

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 12

Created to help the previously enslaved become full citizens, they would also hand out food and clothes, build learning centers, and help find lost family members.

Question 13

Wade-Davis Bill & its veto

Answer 13

A bill proposed by the Radical Republican party which required states to end slavery, grant African American men the right to vote and call for half of a state’s voters to sign a loyalty oath before that state could be readmitted. The oath was different than Lincoln’s and required a person to swear they never supported the rebellion. This would have taken away thousands of Southerner’s right to vote, and Lincoln vetoed it because it was too harsh.