Who could hold public office for the first time following the Civil War?
Which amendment banned slavery in the United States and its territories?
What were the names of the codes that caused African Americans to lose the rights they were given?
What amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
An escaped slave who later became an abolitionists and urged Lincoln to let his people fight?
Who is famous for both the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation?
What Conferderate General urged Southerners to accept defeat and reunite as Americans?
After the Civil War the South remained poor for many decades. What was the South's economy based on?
As the leading spokesman for African Americans he called for voting rights for the newly freed slaves?
What group in Congress wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?
After the Civil War what did Robert E. Lee become the President of ?
What law was enforced by federal troops and granted equal rights to African Americans?
What job did many former slaves end up taking after the Civil War?
What federal agency was established to help the newly freed slaves?
What kept President Lincoln from carrying out his Reconstruction Plans?
Who could not hold public office following the Civil War?
He was a captain in the Union Navy during the Civil War who later became a Congressman?
What did Lincoln say was more important than punishing the South?
Who was the President during much of Reconstruction that attempted to help African Americans gain rights?
What right does the 15th Amendment grant to all citizens?
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 event brought an end to Reconstruction?
What were Northerners called who moved to the South and took advantage of the Reconstruction policies?
Who supervised the South during reconstruction?
What did Lincoln want the North and South to do following the Civil War?