| Question |
Answer |
| Why was the 15th Amendment passed | Americans right to vote |
| How did the Panic of 1873 affect the states | eastern banks ran out of money/ Rail road closed/ farmers can't get things to market=people unenployed |
| What resulted from the Compromise of 1877 | Reconstruction ends |
| Which Amendment gave African Americans full citizenship | 14th Amendment |
| Why did the House of Representatives impeach Johnson | violated 10 year of office act |
| Who operated schools to educate former slaves | freedmans bureaus/African American's/Northern missionaries |
| What did the Radical Republicans do to protect African American rights? | Citizenship voting/Civil rights act with 14th and 15th act |
| What were "black codes"? | to keep former slaves from voting |
| Which president took action against the KKK? | Ulyssys S Grant |
| What did Liberal Republicans favor? | They favored an end to reconstruction and less federal government involvment in the South |
| What ended Reconstruction in the South | 1877 Compromise |
| What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau? | to help African Americans to be free |
| What was a scandal during Grant's administration? | Secretary of war took a bribe |
| What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1877 | Points A-E |
| What divided the South into 5 military districts? | Reconstruction Act |
| What rumor regarding land spread among the former slaves? | 40 acres and a mule |
| Who led the Radical Republicans in Congress? | Thadius Stevens |
| Why was the 14th Amendment necessary after the Civil Rights Act of 1866? | They felt the American was strong and it would aid blacks and protect their rights |
| Why were white women upset after the passage of the 15th Amendment? | Because white women could not vote before black men |
| How did the Supreme Court undermine the 14th and 15th Amendments? | Because of the Literacy Test |
| Who led the fight against the KKK | President Grant |
| What practice in the South created a cycle of debt? | Sharecropping |
| Why did abolitionists oppose the Compromise of 1877 | Doubted south would respect rights |
| What were the points in Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address | promised to reunify the nation with malice to no one and charity to all |
| What were the points of Johnson's Reconstruction plan? | Ratify 13th Amendment except supreme power of fed government/ offered animesty to white southerners for being loyal |
| What justification did Congress use when they refused to seat the newly elected representatives of the South? | Questions of qualification study south decide to be represented |
| What were scalawags and carpetbaggers? | carpet baggers-took advantage of south/ scalawags-poor white farmers in the south radical reconstruction |
| In what ways did African Americans participate in the South's government during Reconstruction? | More then 600 held positions of office |
| What did African Americans do when they gained their freedom? | Leave platations and moved about some returned where they were born others got jobs in the north and looked for family |
| What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 | to make everyone citizens except native Americans |
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