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History 8th
Reconstruction Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Abraham Lincoln's primary goal during the Civil War? | To fix the Union and join together again, fixing seperation of color |
| Lincoln plan for Reconstruction was | Restoring the Union and bring it together again, moderate plan, gentle on former confederates |
| Johnson's plan for Reconstruction | Ratify the 13th amendment, bring states back into the union, disavowal of seccession ordinances, repudiation of war debts. Moderate plan |
| Radical Republicans in Congress dislike Lincoln and Johnson's plan because? | Their plan was to moderate and they refused to admit the southern states. |
| What are the components of the Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan? | Joint Committee of Fifteen, Increased the power of Freedman's Bureau, Replaced Southern Government with 5 military districts |
| What 3 new Amendments were added to the Constitution as a result of the Civil War Reconstruction? | 13th, 14th, 15th |
| What is the 13th Amendment? | Abolished Slavery, Ratified December 18, 1865 |
| What is the 14th Amendment? | Granted Black Citizenship, Ratified July 28, 1868 |
| What is the 15th Amendment? | Gave Black Males the Vote, Ratified March 30, 1870 |
| What is Freedmen? | An emancipated(freed) Slave |
| What was the Freedmen's Bureau? | Established by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites after the Civil War. |
| Why did the plantation system in the south fall apart after the Civil War? | The workforce did not exist anymore all the slaves were freed |
| Why did racism grow amongst many poor southern whites after the Civil War? | The Freedman were competing for the same jobs as the poor southern whites |
| What is Sharecropper? | A tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent |
| Why did so many former slaves become sharecroppers? | The plantation owners provided them with a cabin, mule, tools and a plot of land. |
| What is a carpetbagger? | Political candidate who seeks election in a area with no local connections. |
| Why did most southerns hate carpetbaggers? | They were not from the south and were not southerners |
| What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)? | A klan that terrorized southern blacks with threats and acts of voilence against those who tried to assert their rights. |
| What are Jim Crow Laws? | Southern legislature passed laws segregating blacks from whites in restaurants, hotel and theaters - legalized segregation. |
| The purpose of the Jim Crow Laws? | To create separate areas for blacks and whites in public waiting rooms, restaurants, schools land hospitals |
| What decision about Segregation was made by the Supreme Court in the case Plessy v. Ferguson? | Segregation laws were constitutional as long as the facilities were separate but equal. |
| How didi the Plessy v. Ferguson cas impact the basic rights and freedoms of African-Americans? | It allowed segragation to continue. |
| Expamples of how the southern states tried to limit effectiveness of the new Constitutional amendments and the rights that they granted? | Jim Crow Laws, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause, Poll Taxes |
| What is Segregation? | The social system that developed after the Period of reconstruction in the south. People are separated by race |
| When did Reconstruction end. | 1877 |
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