Reconstruction of the Nation American Nation Ch.4

True/False questions The case of Marbury v. Madison established the Supreme Court as the final interpreter of the Constitution. President Lincoln believed in preserving the Union. Reconstruction referred to changing laws in the South. The Thirteenth Amendment banned secession.

5. Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan allowed southern states to rejoin the Union when 100 percent of the state population accepted slavery. 6. President Lincoln offered amnesty, which was loans for slaves. 7. War hero Robert E. Lee won the 1868 presidential election. 8. All citizens were promised “equal protection of the laws” by the Emancipation Proclamation.

9. A former slave named Fredrick Douglass worked hard to obtain rights for African Americans. 10. Lincoln was assassinated by Andrew Johnson.

Give One, Get One: find an answer, now trade it for two others. The Black Codes are _____________________ and their purpose is ________________________. The Fifteenth Amendment is _________________. Some pros and cons are ______________________ and _________________________________________. _____________ ran for president in 1868. He was a general in the Civil War. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 insured that ____________ __________________________________________.