Reconstruction Jeopardy People LawsGroups
People 100 The president who was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
People 100 Answer: Who was Abraham Lincoln?
People 200 People who rented land from landowners and paid for their rent with portions of their crops.
People 200 Answer: Who were sharecroppers?
People 300 Northerners who went to the South to help with reconstruction or to make money.
People 300 Answer: Who were carpetbaggers?
People 400 Congress tried to remove this president from office by impeachment.
People 400 Answer: Who Was Andrew Johnson?
Laws 100 Laws that limited the rights of African Americans.
Laws 100 Answer: What were Black Codes?
Laws 200 The addition to the constitution that abolished slavery.
Laws 200 Answer: What is the Thirteenth amendment?
Laws 300 The Fifteenth Amendment.
Laws 300 Answer: What is: It gave all male citizens the right to vote regardless of race?
Laws 400 The Fourteenth Amendment.
Laws 400 Answer: What is: It gave former slaves citizenship?
Groups 100 The group that was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Groups 100 Answer: 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.
Groups 200 Answer: What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Groups 300 This organization was established to help former slaves after the war.
Groups 300 Answer: 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.
Groups 400 Answer: What is Congress?