U.S HISTORY FLASHCARDS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 2024
Reconstruction - ANSWER returning the South back to the Union
Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER A federal agency that helped freed slaves & relieve the South's immediate
needs
Andrew Johnson - ANSWER U.S. president after Lincoln, almost impeached by the Radical Republicans
Thirteenth Amendment - ANSWER the constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade
slavery and involuntary servitude.
Radical Republicans - ANSWER Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil
war
impeachment - ANSWER The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the
Constitution.
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens
of the country
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER constitutional ammendment that gave specifically African American
men the right to vote.
Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through
threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American
De jure segregation - ANSWER segregation by law
AND ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 2024
Reconstruction - ANSWER returning the South back to the Union
Freedmen's Bureau - ANSWER A federal agency that helped freed slaves & relieve the South's immediate
needs
Andrew Johnson - ANSWER U.S. president after Lincoln, almost impeached by the Radical Republicans
Thirteenth Amendment - ANSWER the constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade
slavery and involuntary servitude.
Radical Republicans - ANSWER Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil
war
impeachment - ANSWER The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the
Constitution.
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens
of the country
Fifteenth Amendment - ANSWER constitutional ammendment that gave specifically African American
men the right to vote.
Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through
threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American
De jure segregation - ANSWER segregation by law
