The Reconstruction Era

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  1. 2. In his 2nd Inaugural Address, President Lincoln said the former Confederate states should be treated with _________ and justice.
  2. 5. With this enacted, taxes and tests did not apply to any man whose father or grandfather could vote on January 1, 1866.
  3. 7. In the Election of 1868, former Union general Ulysses ___________ ran as a Republican who supported Reconstruction and extending rights to former slaves.
  4. 10. ____________ _____________ were a political group who opposed Lincoln's 10% Plan and created a series of Acts.
  5. 13. Congress created the ___________ ____________ to provide and protect many rights and services intended for formerly enslaved African Americans.
  6. 14. One of the biggest impacts of Reconstruction was that African-Americans were now able to ________ and take part in the political process.
  7. 15. The 14th Amendment was signed into law to protect the earlier legislation of the _________ _________ Act of 1866.
  8. 16. Southern Democrats called White Southerners who voted Republican this word- which meant traitor.
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  1. 1. The 15th _______________ was signed into law to protect the right to vote for all citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  2. 3. The 13th Amendment abolished all forms of __________ in the United States, except as a punishment for a crime.
  3. 4. People in the former Confederate states viewed Northerners who came South to build their wealth were unwelcomed and referred to them as what?
  4. 6. One of the ways former Confederate states prevented African American men from voting was to introduce a ________ _________ and charge citizens a fee to vote.
  5. 8. Radical Republicans created these to re-admit the South back into the Union.
  6. 9. After the Civil War ended, former Confederate states had to be readmitted to the Union and were placed under _______________ control for several years.
  7. 11. After trying to suppress Reconstruction plans, Radical Republicans _______________ Andrew Johnson to prevent him from interfering with any further plans.
  8. 12. The Supreme Court ruled in __________ v. United States the "Grandfather Clause" used to suppress African-American voters as unconstitutional.
  9. 13. The US Military remained in this Southern state until 1877.