Who is famous for both the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation?
What Conferderate General urged Southerners to accept defeat and reunite as Americans?
An escaped slave who later became an abolitionists and urged Lincoln to let his people fight?
Who was the President during much of Reconstruction that attempted to help African Americans gain rights?
He was a captain in the Union Navy during the Civil War who later became a Congressman?
Which amendment banned slavery in the United States and its territories?
What amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
What right does the 15th Amendment grant to all citizens?
What federal agency was established to help the newly freed slaves?
What law was enforced by federal troops and granted equal rights to African Americans?
Who supervised the South during reconstruction?
What did Lincoln want the North and South to do following the Civil War?
As the leading spokesman for African Americans he called for voting rights for the newly freed slaves?
What did Lincoln say was more important than punishing the South?
Who could hold public office for the first time following the Civil War?
What kept President Lincoln from carrying out his Reconstruction Plans?
What were Northerners called who moved to the South and took advantage of the Reconstruction policies?
What were the names of the codes that caused African Americans to lose the rights they were given?
Who could not hold public office following the Civil War?
What group in Congress wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
What is the name of the period following the Civil War that attempted to give meaning to the freedom that African Americans had achieved?
What job did many former slaves end up taking after the Civil War?
After the Civil War what did Robert E. Lee become the President of ?
After the Civil War the South remained poor for many decades. What was the South's economy based on?
What event brought an end to Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Frederick Douglass
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert Smalls
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
The right to vote.
The Freedman's Bureau
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Northern Soldiers (Union Troops)
Rejoin and Reconcile
Frederick Douglass
Preserving the Union
African Americans
He was assassinated.
Carpetbaggers
The Black Codes
Southern Military Leaders
The Radical Republicans
Reconstruction
Sharecroppers
Washington College
Agriculture
The Presidential Election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876
