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New Amendments
$200
These constitutional amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870.
$400
This constitutional amendment was an 1865 amendment abolishing slavery.
$600
This law was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
$800
This constitutional amendment was an 1870 amendment prohibiting denial of voting rights on the basis of race.
$1000
This constitutional amendment was an 1868 amendment addressing citizenship rights and civil and political liberties.
Plans and Policies
$200
These laws were U.S. laws on ex-Confederate states' readmission to the Union (1867–68).
$400
This historical subject was a period after American Civil War (1865–1877).
$600
This document or agreement was a model for reinstatement of Southern states during the American Civil War.
$800
This historical subject was a U.S. government agency of early post American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (i.e., former enslaved people) in the South.
$1000
This law was a bill "to guarantee to certain States whose governments have been usurped or overthrown a republican form of government," proposed for the Reconstruction of the South.
Political Conflict
$200
This person was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.
$400
This historical subject was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on February 24, 1868.
$600
These laws were three bills that were passed by the United States Congress between 1870 and 1871.
$800
This person was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877, and was the Commanding General of the Union Army, leading it to victory in the American Civil War in 1865.
$1000
This historical subject was a political faction within the Republican Party originating from the party's founding in 1854—some six years before the Civil War—until the Compromise of 1877, which effectively ended Reconstruction.
Black Citizenship
$200
This person was an American politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881.
$400
This historical subject is a Methodist denomination based in the United States.
$600
This person was an American politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator.
$800
This historical subject is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States.
$1000
This historical subject was a private savings bank chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 3, 1865, to collect deposits from Black people, especially the formerly enslaved people in the South.
Southern Economy
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This person was a pejorative for Northerners who moved South after the American Civil War.
$400
This person is a farmer or farmworker who resides and works on land owned by a landlord.
$600
This person was a pejorative term that referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction era policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
$800
These laws were racially segregationist and discriminatory U.S. state laws that limited the freedom of Black Americans but not of white Americans.
$1000
This historical subject is the legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.
Reconstruction Ends
$200
This election was held in the United States on November 7, 1876.
$400
This historical subject is an American Protestant-led white supremacist and far-right hate group.
$600
This document or agreement was an informal political deal in the United States that settled the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election, in which Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner over Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden.
$800
This historical subject was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
$1000
These laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century that enforced racial segregation.
