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Reconstruction: Bringing the South back into the Union

Learn about the period after the Civil War, where efforts were made to reintegrate the South into the United States. Explore the key figures, laws, and conflicts that shaped this era.

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Reconstruction: Bringing the South back into the Union

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  1. Reconstruction Westward Expansion Sectionalism Civil War Daily Double 5 pt 30 pt 5 pt 30 pt 5 pt 30 pt 5 pt 30 pt 10 pt 60 pt 10 pt 35 pt 10 pt 35 pt 10 pt 35 pt 10 pt 35 pt 20 pt 70 pt 15 pt 40 pt 15 pt 40 pt 15 pt 40 pt 15 pt 40 pt 30 pt 80 pt 20 pt 45 pt 20 pt 45 pt 20 pt 45 pt 20 pt 45 pt 40 pt 90 pt 25 pt 50 pt 25 pt 50 pt 25 pt 50 pt 25 pt 50 pt 50 pt 100 pt

  2. What was Reconstruction?

  3. Period after Civil War – bring South back into the Union

  4. President who led Reconstruction after Lincoln

  5. Andrew Johnson

  6. Laws that restricted freedoms of African-Americans

  7. Black Codes

  8. Group in Congress that wanted strong federal role in Reconstruction

  9. Radical Republicans

  10. Groups that fought Radical Reconstruction in the South

  11. Democratic Party • Ku Klux Klan • White League

  12. Put South under military rule, denied ex-CSA voting rights

  13. Reconstruction Acts of 1867

  14. First African-American in U.S. Senate

  15. Hiram Revels

  16. Name the 3 Reconstruction constitutional amendments

  17. 13th – all slaves are FREE 14th – all natural-born are CITIZENS 15th – all men can VOTE

  18. Name the 3 Reconstruction land acts

  19. Homestead Act – free western land for settlers Morrill Act – A&M colleges Dawes Act – gave Natives farm land

  20. How did Reconstruction Era end?

  21. African-Americans lost many rights – 100 years of “Jim Crow”

  22. Belief that America was destined to expand west to the Pacific

  23. Manifest Destiny

  24. President Polk added this by treaty with Britain in 1846

  25. Oregon

  26. Annexed as the 28th state in 1845

  27. Texas

  28. Conflict caused by dispute over Texas boundary

  29. Mexican War

  30. Treaty that officially ended the Mexican War

  31. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  32. Religious group that migrated to Utah in 1846

  33. Mormons

  34. Immigrants who fled the Potato Famine in their home country

  35. Irish

  36. Territory ceded to U.S. after the Mexican War

  37. Mexican Cession – CANCUN+W

  38. Nickname for people who migrated during the Gold Rush

  39. “Forty-niners”

  40. Population boom allowed this to become a state in 1850

  41. California

  42. Main product of the South’s economy

  43. cotton

  44. Economic activity that was much larger in the North

  45. Manufacturing

  46. Law that allowed free slaves in the North to be recaptured

  47. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

  48. Novel that portrayed slavery as cruel and un-Christian

  49. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  50. Slave who sued for his freedom in Supreme Court

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