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REBUILDING THE UNION

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The Reconstruction plan that stressed leniency over severe punishment.

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Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction would readmit a Confederate state once this percentage of the voting population took an oath of allegiance.

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Congressional leaders such as Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were given this “extreme” name because they advocated severe punishment for the South and rights for African Americans.

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This bill proposed that Congress, not the president, be responsible for Reconstruction.

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Lincoln and Johnson believed they should lead Reconstruction because of this presidential power to clear people of wrongdoing.

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The amendment that abolished slavery.

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This amendment said that citizens could not be stopped from voting based on the color of their skin.

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This plan, which was later revoked, was to give African Americans land abandoned by wealthy Southerners during the war.

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Identify 2 ways the Freedmen’s Bureau helped African Americans

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The 14th amendment reaffirmed this act passed by Congress in 1866.

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Laws passed by Southern states, which limited the freedom of former slaves. Mississippi had the harshest.

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Identify 2 ways the Southern states tried to restrict African Americans from voting.

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DAILY DOUBLE

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He was a former Confederate general and one of the original leaders of the KKK.

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This system left many African Americans in debt because they rented the land they lived on by giving the landowner a share of what they grew.

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Few of these Republican southerners were committed to civil rights and suffrage.

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He was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act.

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He issued the temporary field order of “40 acres and a mule.”

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He won the elections of 1868 and 1872 despite the corruption that existed in his cabinet.

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The first African American senator in the United States.

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He earned the presidency due to a compromise made in 1877.

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A generalization about a group of people.

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An African American caricature who was portrayed as being happy to serve whites.

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An African American caricature who was portrayed as being a perpetual child.

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Explain why “mammies” were typically drawn as being fat and ugly.

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The major political reason why African American stereotypes were formed in the South.

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Legacy of Reconstruction

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The number of African Americans who have served as U.S. Senators.

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