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Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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Define Reconstruction | To rebuild (i.e. rebuild the South) |
What was the 13th Amendment | Prohibited slavery throughout the United States |
What was the Freedmen's Bureau | Established by Congress to help former slaves adjust to freedom |
Who was Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's successor after he as assasinated |
What was Presidential Reconstruction? | The belief that the President (Johnson) should decided terms of reconstruction |
What did the Radical Republicans believe in? | A small group of Republicans who believed the South should be punished and African Americans should be given equality |
What were the "Black Codes"? | Laws passed in the South to prevent freed slaves from voting, holding office, serving on juries etc... |
What was Congressional Reconstruction? | Belief that Congress should be in charge of reconstruction (the Radical Republicans) |
What was the Civil Rights Act? | Overturned the Black Codes by prohibiting discrimination based on race. |
What was the 14th Amendment? | Prevents states from denying African Americans or other minorities the rights and privileges of citizens and equal protection under the law. |
What is Due Process? | A citizen cannot be denied their life, liberty, or property without a process (usually the courts) |
What does Equal Protection mean? | All people are protected by the law equally as it is written in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights |
What was the 15th Amendment? | Prohibited denying men the right to vote based on race |
Define Impeachment? | When congress attempts to remove the President from office |
What was a Carpetbagger? | Poor Northerners who moved South only carrying what they owned in a bag. |
What was a Scalawag? | Southern whites who supported reconstruction |
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels? | A Protestant Minister, the first African American to sit in Congress (Senator from Mississippi) |
What was the "New South"? | New crop growing techniques and an expansion of different kinds of crops |
What was Sharecropping? | Arrangements with their former slaves. Renting land and paying with a large share of the crop. |
What was Debt peonage? | The freed slave could not leave if he had any debt owed to the land owner |
What were Literacy Tests? | Tests given to African Americans in an effort to prevent them from voting. |
What were "Grandfather Clauses"? | White voters who were "grandfathered" in if they had an ancestor who was allowed to vote. They didn't have to pay poll taxes or pass a literacy test. |
What were Poll taxes? | A tax assessed to African Americans to prevent them from voting. |
What was the Solid South? | White Southerners consistently voted for Democrats in their elections. |
What were "Jim Crow" laws? | Laws that established racial segregation |
What is segregation? | Dividing African American and White people into their own groups for education, restrooms, and opportunity. |
What did the supreme court rule in Plessy vs. Ferguson? | That separate but equal schools was constitutional |