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2. Important Terms What ended Slavery in the U.S. Forever?
Answer: 13th Amendment

3. Important Terms
Amendment that makes all people born in the US a citizen, and equally protects all people in front of the law.
Answer: 14th Amendment

4. Important Terms What are the 2 steps to impeachment???
Answer: (1)To bring formal criminal charges against the president of the United States (2) with a trial after to decide if to remove from office.

5. Important Terms
Law that allows all adult males in the United States to vote, regardless of race.
Answer: 15th Amendment

6. Important Terms
The legal separation of the races in public facilities.
Answer: Segregation

7. Reconstruction Acts
What was the basic difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?
Answer: Harsh on south vs easy on south

8. Reconstruction Acts
What was the 2 major provisions that Andrew Johnson wanted the South to observe as part of his Reconstruction Plan?
Answer: South must abolish slavery and they must repeal their succession ordinance

9. Reconstruction Acts
Who were the Radical Republicans and who were their biggest concern?
Answer: Republicans in Congress & African Americans

10. Reconstruction Acts
Because of his lack of action in Congress’s opinion what happened to President Johnson?
Answer: Impeached but not thrown out of office

11. Reconstruction Acts
Name 3 provisions (parts) of the Reconstruction Act by Congress
Answer:
Disband Southern state governments
Write new state constitutions
Ratify 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Military took control of the South

12. People
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

13. People Who became President in the Compromise of 1877
Answer: Rutherford B Hayes

14. People
Who was the leader of the Union military during the Civil War, and eventually became president of the United States?
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

15. People
Who Proposed the Reconstruction Act
Answer: Radical Republicans

16. People Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court case that said races can legally be separated in society, so long as the conditions were “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL”
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson

17. Misc.
What two voting requirements did Southern states begin to pass after the end of the Civil War?
Answer: Poll Tax + Literacy Test

18. Misc.
How did Southern state governments find a way to allow whites to vote, while still keeping blacks out of voting booths, and NOT violating the 15th Amendment.
Answer: Grandfather Clause

19. Misc.
A series of laws created to prohibit African Americans from achieving full equality.
Answer: Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws

20. Misc.
A Northerner who ran down South after the war in order to take advantage of the poor economy, perhaps by opening a store.
Answer: Carpetbagger

21. Misc. Set up to advance newly freed slaves Ex. Jobs and Education
Answer: Freedmen Bureau