Match the phrases to create a sentence that shows the cause-effect relationship of events during Reconstruction.

Question

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act because
Republicans proposed the 14th Amendment because
One reason that the Republican Congress disapproved of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was because
President Johnson stated that he vetoed the Freedman's Bureau Bill because
it did not prevent the South from treating freed people unfairly.
it gave African Americans rights that were denied by states' black codes.
Congress did not yet have representatives from all the former Confederate states.
they feared that once Southern representatives were in Congress they would overturn the Civil Rights Act.

Answer 1

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act because it gave African Americans rights that were denied by states' black codes.
Republicans proposed the 14th Amendment because they feared that once Southern representatives were in Congress they would overturn the Civil Rights Act.
One reason that the Republican Congress disapproved of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was because it did not prevent the South from treating freed people unfairly.
President Johnson stated that he vetoed the Freedman's Bureau Bill because Congress did not yet have representatives from all the former Confederate states.