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11B Reconstruction
People, Events and Ideas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did Abraham Lincoln die? | Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, five days after the Civil War ended. His vice-president Andrew Johnson became president. |
| How did Andrew Johnson's background present challenges for reconstruction? | Johnson was from the southern slave-holding state, Tennessee. |
| How did Andrew Johnson "reconstruct" the confederacy? | Johnson kept things simple and quick: to re-join the union, states had to write new constitutions; elect new state governments; repeal their secession laws, and ratify the 13th amendment. |
| What caused the split between the president Johnson and the Radical Republican Congress. | Johnson (the southerner) was ready to admit confederate states to the union, while Congress demanded that they could not re-join until freed slaves got all rights as full citizens. |
| What was the Freedmen's Bureau? | Federal agency responsible for helping war refugees and freedmen with basic needs such as food, clothing and medicine. It also created schools. |
| What was the 13th amendment? | This amendment abolished slavery. |
| What was the 14th amendment? | This amendment gave full citizenship to all freed slaves and granted "equal protection" to everyone. |
| What was the 15th amendment? | This amendment gave all men the right to vote. (universal male suffrage) |
| How did Congress seek to protect newly-freed slaves? | Civil Rights Act of 1866 - gave citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.A, except American Indian tribes. This was the first federal law protecting racial minorities. |
| How did President Andrew Johnson react to the Civil Rights Act of 1866? | Johnston vetoed the bill; Congress overrode the veto; this was followed by the 14th amendment. |
| Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels? | First African American Senator. He came from the southern state, Mississippi |
| What was the Military Reconstruction Act of 1877? | This law divided the south into 5 military districts, each controlled by the U.S. army. |
| Without slave labor, how did the southern plantation economy recover after the war? | Sharecropping replaced slavery. Many former slaves became tenant farmers (not much better than slavery) |
| How did southern states respond to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments? | They created state and local laws limiting the rights of African Americans. These were called Black Codes or Jim Crow laws. |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan? | A secret society in the south that terrorized African Americans and whites who supported them. |
| What was the Homestead Act of 1862? | Federal law giving western lands to settlers who agreed to build a house and farm the land. This caused rapid settlement of the west. |
| What was the Morrill Act of 1862? | This law created land grant colleges emphasizing agriculture and mechanic arts. Texas A & M University was founded under the Morrill Act. People had opportunities for education that had never been available before. |
| How did the second Morrill Act of 1890 affect reconstruction? | This law led to the development of what we now know as "historically black colleges." |
| What was the Dawes Act? | This law permitted the president to break up Native American lands and give small parcels to individuals. This hurt the communal culture of Native Americans. |
| Unit 11B Reconstruction People, Events and Ideas | |
| Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? | Johnson fought with the Radical Republican Congress and refused to follow laws limiting his power during Reconstruction. Johnson was NOT removed from office by one vote. |
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