Reconstruction Jeopardy

Reconstruction Jeopardy

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People 100 The president who was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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Who was Abraham Lincoln?

People 200 People who rented land from landowners and paid for their rent with portions of their crops.

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Who were sharecroppers?

People 300 Northerners who went to the South to help with reconstruction or to make money.

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Who were carpetbaggers?

People 400 Congress tried to remove this president from office by impeachment .

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Who Was Andrew Johnson?

Laws 100 Laws that limited the rights of African Americans .

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What were Black Codes?

Laws 200 The addition to the constitution that abolished slavery.

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What is the Thirteenth amendment?

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The Fifteenth Amendment.

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What is: It gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race?

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The Fourteenth Amendment.

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What is: It gave former slaves citizenship?

Groups 100 The group that was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Who were Slaves or African Americans?

Groups 200 A small group of white southerners who wanted to restore white control over the lives of African Americans through terror and violence.

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What is the Ku Klux Klan?

Groups 300 This organization was established to help former slaves after the war.

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What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Groups 400 This group did not trust Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plans and developed their own set of laws for Reconstruction.

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What is Congress?