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Which legacy wanted to preserve the Union rather than punish the South? | Abraham Lincoln |
Which legacy wanted Southerners to accept defeat and reunite with the Union as Americans? | Robert E. Lee |
Government agency created after the Civil War to help freed slaves in the South | Freedmen's Bureau |
Which legacy fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights? | Frederick Douglass |
13th Amendment | Bans slavery in the U.S. and any of its territories |
Who controlled and supervised the Southern states during Reconstruction? | Northern soldiers |
Civil Rights Act of 1866 guarantees equal rights for... | African Americans |
14th Amendment | Grants the right of citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. |
Which group of people was NOT allowed to vote or hold public office? | Former Confederate military leaders |
What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866? | to give equal rights to African Americans |
15th Amendment | all citizens have the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment guarantee equal protection under the law for who? | All citizens |
Carpetbaggers | took advantage of the South during Reconstruction |
Reconstruction ended as a result of ______ | a compromise over the presidential election of 1876 |
Jim Crow Laws | Passed to discriminate against African Americans / Made discrimination legal |
Segregation | means to separate |
Which Supreme Court decision established "separate but equal"? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
W.E.B. DuBois | Co-founder of NAACP & wanted an immediate end to segregation |
Booker T. Washington | Accepted social segregation & believed in vocational training |
What law authorized the use of federal troops in the South? | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |