Reconstruction - US History UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
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1. freedmen Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
2. Reconstruction Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War 1865-1877
3. Ten Percent Plan Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10
percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
4. Wade-Davis Bill an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold oflce to
anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy
5. Freedmen's Bu- government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
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6. 1865 - abolished slavery
, Thirteenth
Amendment
7. black codes Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states
following the Civil War
8. Radical Republi- Congressional group that wished to punish the South for its secession from the
cans Union; pushed for measures that gave economic and political rights to newly freed
blacks in the South and that made it diflcult for former Confederate states to rejoin
the Union. Impeached Andrew Johnson
9. Fourteenth guarantees equal protection of the law, due process of law, and rights of citizenship
Amendment to all people born or naturalized in US
10. Reconstruction an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to
Act ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
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1. freedmen Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
2. Reconstruction Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War 1865-1877
3. Ten Percent Plan Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10
percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
4. Wade-Davis Bill an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold oflce to
anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy
5. Freedmen's Bu- government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves
reau
6. 1865 - abolished slavery
, Thirteenth
Amendment
7. black codes Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states
following the Civil War
8. Radical Republi- Congressional group that wished to punish the South for its secession from the
cans Union; pushed for measures that gave economic and political rights to newly freed
blacks in the South and that made it diflcult for former Confederate states to rejoin
the Union. Impeached Andrew Johnson
9. Fourteenth guarantees equal protection of the law, due process of law, and rights of citizenship
Amendment to all people born or naturalized in US
10. Reconstruction an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to
Act ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
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