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8SS_Reconstruction
Mayfield-Reconstruction of the Changing South
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were scalawags? | Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republicans |
| How did the Ku Klux Klan affect the South during Reconstruction? | it helped to reverse Reconstruction in the South |
| What was the Freedman's Bureau? | It was established to provide aid to people adjusting to freedom |
| What was the new labor system established in the South during Reconstruction? | sharecropping based on credit |
| Who were Carpetbaggers? | Northern Republicans who moved to the South |
| What Supreme Court case determined separate by equal facilities for the races are constitutional? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What was the 13th amendment? | it abolished slavery |
| What was the 14th amendment? | it established equal protection and due process for all people |
| What was the 15th amendment? | it established male suffrage regardless of race |
| How did Southern states try to weaken President Johnson's Reconstruction plan? | by impeaching him |
| What were the "Jim Crow" laws? | laws that effectively segregated the races in the South |
| What was the Wade-Davis Bill? | it stipulated that states could reenter the Union when a majority of voters pledged allegiance |
| Who were the Radical Republicans? | they were a minority group in Congress who wanted to punish the South for secession and the war and wanted to protect the civil and political rights of blacks |
| The KKK was founded in TN after the passage of what? | the 15th amendment |
| Why did Radicals in the House impeach Andrew Johnson in 1868? | because he had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment |
| What are the Black Codes? | laws passed by Southern states to restrict the freedom of blacks |
| Who became President after Abraham Lincoln? | Andrew Johnson |
| Where was Abraham Lincoln when he was shot? | Ford's Theatre |
| Reconstruction ended with which President? | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Who were the enslaved people that have been freed by the war called? | freedmen |
| What date was Abraham Lincoln assassinated? | April 14, 1865 |
| Who was John Wilkes Booth? | he was the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
| What is Reconstruction? | the period of time when the South was rebuilt as well as the federal government's program to rebuild it |
| What is amnesty? | a group pardon to Confederates who swore loyalty to the Union |
| What was the 10% plan? | it was when a southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States |
| Who was Charlotte Forten? | She was from a wealthy Northern African-American family who had private tutors and after going to teacher-training school taught people to read, write and arithmetic without books or supplies |
| What is an abolitionist? | a person that is dedicated to improving the quality of life for African-Americans |
| When did the 13th Amendment pass? | January 1865 |
| What did the black codes forbid African-Americans from doing? | voting, owning guns, and serving on juries |
| What was the Radical Reconstruction? | it threw out any state government that refused to ratify the 14th amendment |
| What does it mean to impeach an elected official? | it means to bring formal charges of wrong-doing against that person |
| Who voted in large numbers and also ran for and were elected to public office in the South after Reconstruction? | African-Americans |
| Who became the nation's first black senator in 1870? | Hiram Revels |
| Who became the first African-American to serve a full term in the Senate? | Blanche K. Bruce |
| Who became the 18th President of the United States? | Ulysses Grant |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan? | it was people who dressed in white robes and hoods to cover their heads and they used violence to murder and scare African Americans and their allies |
| When was the end of Reconstruction? | 1876 |
| Who spoke at the Centennial celebration of the United States in Philadelphia? | Frederick Douglass |
| Who was the 19th President? | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| What is racial segregation? | separating people of different races |
| Why is testing required in order to vote? | very few Americans had an education and couldn't read and this kept them away from the polls |
| What was the Literacy Test? | it was a test that required voters to read and explain a difficult part of the Constitution |
| What is a poll tax? | a tax required by voters every time they voted |
| What was the Grandfather Clause? | if a voter's father or grandfather voted in an election the voter did not have to take the literacy test |
| What laws separated blacks and whites in schools, restaurants, theaters, trains, streetcars, and cemeteries? | the Jim Crow Laws |
| What the ruling by the Supreme Court regarding segregation? | segregation was legal so long as the facilities for whites and blacks were equal |
| What term became widely used to describe the South's ability to use natural resources to build its own industry instead of depending on the North? | New South |
| How many votes do you have to have in order to impeach a President? | you have to have two-thirds majority in the Senate |
| By how many votes did the Senate fall short of in the impeachment of Johnson? | 1 vote and this let him finish his last few months in office |
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