Reconstruction Era

Constitutional Amendment is a change to the American Constitution and requires...

• 2/3 vote in Congress and 3/4 of states to approve (or ratify) the change

• Majority vote (51%) in Congress and Presidential signature or approval

• Majority vote (51%) in Congress and majority of states (51%) approve (or ratify) the change

• 10% of voters in a state in a majority of states in the nation

This amendment ended slavery in the United States.

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

Money required of voters in some Southern states - disproportionately applied to black voters, which could prohibit their ability to vote

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Vagrancy

• Grandfather Clause

Most newly freed African American voters supported the Republican Party

• True

• False

Europeans Discover a New World

• Colonization Era

• Exploration Era

• Reconstruction Era

• Reform Era

A (sometimes tricky) reading exam formerly used in the South to keep African Americans from voting

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Vagrancy

• Grandfather Clause

Lincoln gave a speech titled the ____ that encouraged soldiers to continue to fight to preserve our nation from splitting into two.

• Gettysburg Address

• March

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

What was the Reconstruction Era?

• Confederate states remaining separate from the Union.

• Rebuilding homes that were destroyed.

• Helping wounded troops after the war.

• Getting the Confederate States back to the Union.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

• Mandatory separation of the races in all spheres of life.

• Rules requiring a voter to demonstrate literacy.

• Separation of the races that exists because of social patterns rather than the enforcement of laws.

• State laws passed throughout the South to enforce segregation of public facilities.

What are Presidents Johnson and Lincoln trying to do in this cartoon?

• Gerrymander

• Bring the Union back together

• Control all political parties

• Create an economic imbalance