The Reconstruction Era

Reconstruction proposition that would forgive all southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the North after the Civil War and required Southern States to abolish slavery, but allowed the denial of voting rights to African Americans

• Radical Republicans' Congressional Plan

• Lincoln's 10% Plan

• Johnson's Plan

• Southern Democrats' Plan

The assassin of Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William Seward

• James Boothes

people who traveled Southward from the North during Reconstruction looking for opportunities to make money or “get rich" off the misfortunes of the South

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• radicals

• sharecroppers

Answer explanation

the attorney who served on the Brown v. Board of Education legal decision that overturned the results of Plessy v. Ferguson

• Thurgood Marshall

• John Marshall Harlan

• Jonathan W. Booth

• Booker T. Washington

a term that means to grant forgiveness or a general pardon, for an act that could be considered illegal, especially political offenses

• dissent

• amnesty

• grace

• segregate

the person who encouraged African Americans to make themselves "necessary" to the South’s economy by getting an education and work-training

• Booker T. Washington

• Thurgood Marshall

• Robert Livinston

• John Marshall

constitutionally abolished slavery in the United States of America

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

Choose the list that is considered Reconstruction amendments to the US Constitution.

• 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

• 13th, 18th, 22nd Amendments

• 13th, 15th, 16th Amendments

this Supreme Court Justice believed that all citizens were equal before the law no matter what the color of their skin was, and therefore opposed the decision of “separate but equal”

• Justice Clarence Thomas

• Justice Thurgood Marshall

• Justice John Marshall Harlan

constitutionally guaranteed all male citizens, without concern for race, the right to vote in the United States of America

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment