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What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery
Gave women the vote
Started Reconstruction
Ended the Civil War
What was the purpose of Reconstruction?
Create new colonies
End taxes
Rebuild and reunite the country
Punish the North
What were Black Codes?
Laws to limit rights of freedmen
Plans to help freedmen
Voting laws
Slave codes
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Organization that helped freed slaves
Southern government
The new Southern Court system
Military group
What was sharecropping?
Buying land from the government
Owning land
Farming land for a share of crops
Working only for wages
What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called?
Radical Plan
The Ten Percent Plan
Restoration Act
The Wade-Davis Plan
Why did Radical Republicans in Congress oppose Lincoln’s plan?
Too harsh
Too lenient
No tax reforms
It freed all slaves
What was the goal of Radical Republicans?
Rebuild trade
Punish the South and protect freedmen
Lower taxes
Support Lincoln
What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
End of Reconstruction
Citizenship and equal protection
Right to vote
Equal taxes
The 15th Amendment protected
Voting rights for Black men
Equal pay
Land ownership
Public schooling
Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached?
Freed slaves in all states
Started the war again
Vetoed too many bills
Clashed with Congress over Reconstruction
What was a carpetbagger?
Northerner who moved South after the war
Southern soldier
Union general
Freedman in government
What was a scalawag?
Republican in the North
Freed slave
Southern white who supported Reconstruction
Confederate soldier
What was the Compromise of 1877?
Gave land to freedmen
Created Black Codes
Ended Reconstruction
Re-elected Grant
What happened because of/after Reconstruction ended?
Growth of Northern cities
Rise of Jim Crow laws
Civil War restarted
New rights for freedmen
What was one lasting impact of Reconstruction?
Constitutional changes for rights
Peace in the South
Immediate equality
End of racism
