Significant People | Policies | Amendments | Dates |
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Who is Abraham Lincoln
He was the President of the United States during part of Reconstruction Period
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What is Voting Qualifications
requirements of owning property, paying poll taxes, and passing literacy or civics exams
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What is an amendment
an alteration made to the United States constitution
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What is the beginning of reconstruction
1865
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Who is Frederick Douglas
He was the first African American representative to attend the Republican Convention
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What is requirements for the ex-Confederate states to rejoin the Union
Swearing loyalty, pay off war debts, and accept the 13th amendment
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What is the 13th amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States
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What is the year the 15th amendment was ratified
1870
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Who is Robert E Lee
He was the General of the Army of Northern VA
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What is Black Codes
restrictive laws prohibiting the freedom of African Americans
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What is the 14th amendment
Gave African Americans citizenship
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What is the year the 14th amendment was ratified
1868
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Who is Abraham Lincoln
Contributed The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
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What is Jim Crow laws
state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States
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What is the 15th amendment
Gave voting rights to all men regardless of race
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What is 1865
the year that the 13th amendment was ratified
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Who is Robert E Lee
Signed the Terms of Surrender, sending Confederate soldiers back home peacefully
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What is sharecropping
a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
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What is the 15th amendment
the one reconstruction amendment that left out women.
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What is 1865
the year that Black Codes began in the south
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