Checkpoints 22 & 23: Reconstruction

What was the primary purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

• to protect the rights of American Indians

• to protect the rights of women

• to protect the rights of Americans accused of a crime

• to protect the rights of African Americans

The Ku Klux Klan began as a social club started by __________ in Pulaski, Tennessee.

• former enslaved people

• Confederate veterans

• carpetbaggers and scalawags

abolished slavery throughout the United States; was needed to ensure that slavery would never be used again in any U.S. state or territory

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law; was needed to stop states from attempting to deny citizenship to freed African Americans

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

protects the right of all citizens to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; was needed to stop states from attempting to deny freed African Americans their right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What role did President Andrew Johnson have during Reconstruction?

• President Johnson worked with the U.S. Congress to make readmission into the Union a very difficult process for the South.

• President Johnson rewrote the Presidential Reconstruction Plan to restore slavery in the United States.

• President Johnson continued the work of Abraham Lincoln and enacted his Reconstruction plan.

What impact did President Lincoln’s assassination have on the United States?

• Plans for Reconstruction became tougher on the South, and African Americans did not achieve the gains they wanted.

• Plans for Reconstruction were followed as Lincoln wanted, and African Americans achieved the gains they wanted.

• Plans for Reconstruction were rejected by the South, and African Americans did not achieve the gains they wanted.

How did President Johnson respond to the Southern states passing black codes?

• He intervened and divided the South into military districts that he controlled.

• He did not intervene and continued with Reconstruction.

• He did not intervene, but he asked Congress to put the South under strict control.

How was the Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan different from President Johnson’s plan?

• The Radical Republicans wanted to find a compromise with the South.

• The Radical Republicans wanted to follow the Ten Percent Plan.

• The Radical Republicans wanted to be tougher on the South.

How did Governor William Brownlow’s support for Radical Republicans affect Tennessee’s path to rejoin the Union?

• Tennessee had to follow the 14th Amendment, while other former Confederate states that rejoined the Union refused to follow it.

• Tennessee was delayed in rejoining the Union until after Governor Brownlow left office.

• Tennessee was the first former Confederate state to rejoin the Union and avoided the harsher parts of Reconstruction.