The Reconstruction Era

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