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Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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How did Lincoln & Johnson differ in their policies during Reconstruction? | Lincoln was less sympathetic toward the south. Many thought Johnson's plan was to easy on the south. |
Northerners who supported the Republicans moved south during Reconstruction to profit from hardships of the south were called | carpet baggers |
How did the Jim Crow Laws affect life for African Americans? | African Americans' rights were restricted. |
What was the main method the Ku Klux Klan used to restore white control in the south? | Used terror and violence to restore white dominance. |
What refers to the building of the country after the Civil War? | reconstruction |
What were the goals of reconstruction? | African American men has the right to vote. |
What are the laws that denied blacks the right to vote or take part in jury trial? | black codes |
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the south. | True |
What is the practicing of renting land from a landowner and paying rent with a portion of the crop produced on that land? | sharecropping |
What did the passage of the 14th & 15th amendments mean for African Americans? | African Americans were free citizens, and the men could vote. |
What is the 13th Amendment? | abolished slavery |
What is the separation of blacks & whites called? | segregation |
Why did Congress disagree with President Johnson's Reconstruction plan? | They thought it was too easy on the south. |
What were some of the hardships that southerners experienced after the Civil War? | Military occupation a worthless currency, devastated farms & cities. |
2 examples of an effect of the Reconstruction Acts? | African American men had the right to vote. |