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History 8 ch 16
Reconstruction Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln’s plan to restore the Union as quickly and easily as possible; required 10% of southern voters to swear an oath of loyalty before they could return to the Union |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Required 50% of southern voters to swear an oath of loyalty before a state could return to the Union |
| Freedmen | Former slaves now free; lacked education and money |
| John Wilkes Booth | assassinated Abraham Lincoln and ended hopes of a “soft” plan for Reconstruction |
| 13th Amendment | Abolished(ended) slavery; criminals can be forced to work; included states and territories |
| 14th Amendment | made anyone born in the United States citizens(applied to all slaves) |
| 15th Amendment | gave Blacks the right to vote |
| Ku Klux Klan | Used violence and terror to keep Blacks from voting and entering political office |
| Grandfather Clause | Helped allow only white men to vote; if your father or grandfather could vote before 1868 then you could; whites did not have to take a literacy test |
| New South | Term refers to the development of Southern industry to make them more self sufficient; they wanted to depend less on the North |
| Radical Reconstruction | Name given to Congressional Reconstruction; very harsh(hard) on the South; Imposed military rule in the South; threw out Governments who refused to ratify the 15th Amendment |
| Johnson’s Plan | 50% of voters had to swear an oath of loyalty and states had to ratify the 13th Amendment; states could then organize new governments and elect representatives |
| “Jim Crow” legislation | Laws that segregated Blacks and Whites; they were segregated in restaurants, schools, cars on railroads, bathrooms, and many other public facilities |
| End of Reconstruction | As reconstruction became unpopular it came to an end; African Americans lost most of their civil and political rights at this time |
| Impeachment | Congress and President Johnson disagreed over how to deal with the South and who should determine the plan for Reconstruction; this disagreement later led to Johnson’s impeachment |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | helped provide relief to Blacks and Whites displaced by the war; gave them food, shelter, clothing, etc.; started schools and helped former slaves find work |
| Ku Klux Klan | organized by Whites angry about their loss of power; used terror and violence to keep Blacks out of power and deny them rights such as voting |
| Carpetbaggers | Name given to whites who went south to start businesses or pursue careers in politics |
| Amnesty | Pardon for a group of people |
| Poll Tax | tax paid before voting |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | established legal segregation in the South as long as the facilities were “separate but equal”; they were rarely equal; denied African Americans their full Civil Rights |
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