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- 2. The 15th _______________ was signed into law to protect the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This mainly protected African-American citizens from discrimination.
- 7. After the Civil War, many states in the south implemented discriminatory laws to suppress African-American citizens from voting and to keep white and black people segregated. (Two words)
- 9. The political group which opposed Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan and created the Reconstruction Acts for the South's re-admittance to the Union was the ___________ _____________. (Two words)
- 12. One of the ways former Confederate states attempted to reduce the number of African-American men from voting was to introduce a ________ _________ and charge citizens a fee to vote. (Two words)
- 14. The period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt & brought back into the Union as the federal government addressed the impact of slavery was called __________________.
- 15. After trying to suppress Reconstruction plans, Radical Republicans
- 16. In the Election of 1868, former Union general Ulysses ___________ ran as a Republican who supported Reconstruction and extending rights to former slaves.
- 17. After the Civil War ended, former Confederate states had to be readmitted to the Union and were placed under _______________ control for several years.
- 18. One of the biggest impacts of Reconstruction was that African-Americans were now able to ________ and take part in the political process.
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- 1. President Lincoln and Congress created the ___________ ____________ to provide and protect many rights and services intended for formerly enslaved African-Americans. (Two words)
- 3. The 14th Amendment was signed into law to protect the earlier legislation of the _________ _________ Act of 1866. (Two words)
- 4. Besides the poll tax, southern states also began forcing citizens to pass a __________ test in order to vote, but exempted anyone whose father or grandfather could vote on January 1st, 1867 -- making the law only apply to African-Americans.
- 5. People in the former Confederate states viewed Northerners that came South to profit as unwelcomed and referred to them as _______________.
- 6. The 13th Amendment abolished all forms of __________ in the United States, except as a punishment for a crime.
- 8. In his Second __________ Address, President Lincoln called for the nation to begin healing the wounds and division and that the former Confederate states should be treated with both kindness and weakness.
- 10. The Supreme Court ruled in __________ v. United States that "Grandfather Clauses" used to suppress African-American voters was unconstitutional.
- 11. After the Civil War, much of the former Confederate leadership retained their political power and immediately began passing laws to trap former slaves in a system that limited their rights and freedoms. These became known as _______ ________. (Two words)
- 13. Southern Democrats could not believe that any white southerner would vote for Republican candidates and would call them a ____________ if they did, which meant they were a traitor to the South.