1. The Final Standards of Eighth Grade Team Yukon History
The Home Stretch
The Final Standards of Eighth Grade
Team Yukon History

2. Question #1 Appomattox Courthouse, VA April 1865
The North won and the South lost
But in a larger sense . . .

3. Question #2 13th – Freed the slaves
14th – Defined what it is to be a United States citizen
“equal protection under the law”
15th – Said that voting rights cannot be denied on the basis of race

4. Question #3 Reconstruction – rebuilding the South 1865-1877
It was the North’s version of what it though the South needed

5. Question #4 Andrew Johnson was the first President to be impeached
He was hated by Congress, so Congress created a rule they knew he would break: the Tenure of Office Act
House impeached him, the Senate acquitted him by one vote

6. Question #5
Southern blacks were allowed to vote for the first time during Reconstruction
They also held political office for the first time, since African-Americans were finally able to vote
Sen. Hiram Revels
Sen. Blanche Bruce

7. Question #6
Freedman’s Bureau—main goal was education, health care, and employment
First commissioner: General O. O. Howard

8. Question #7 Election of 1876 – another corrupt bargain?
Rutherford B. Hayes – Republican
Samuel Tilden – Democrat
20 electoral votes were in dispute and a “compromise” was reached
Shortly after the compromise, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, other “Jim Crow laws”
Plessy v. Ferguson – “separate but equal” – legal segregation