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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the purpose of Reconstruction? | To readmit southern states to the Union |
| Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan offered amnesty to the south if they did what TWO things? | Swear an oath of loyalty to the U.S. Agree slavery is illegal |
| WHY WAS LINCOLN’S PLAN CALLED “TEN PERCENT PLAN?” | Only 10% of the south had to do it |
| What were the three main Reconstruction goals of Radical Republicans? | -break the planters’ power -give freemen voting rights -stay in power |
| WHAT AMENDMENT MADE SLAVERY ILLEGAL IN THE U.S.? | 13th amendment |
| What type of relief did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to freed-people? | Food, supplies, schools, land (forty acres) |
| WHERE WAS LINCOLN ASSASSINATED? | Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. |
| WHAT THREE THINGS DID THE WADE-DAVIS BILL INCLUDE? | Outlaw slavery, majority of people to take an oath of loyalty, banned confederate soldiers from office or voting |
| HOW DID THE BLACK CODES LIMIT AFRICAN AMERICANS? | Requiring work contracts, can’t own guns, no renting property except in cities |
| HOW DID PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON ANGER THE RADICAL REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS? | He vetoed all bills giving African Americans more rights |
| Why did Johnson veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866? | It would give blacks equal legal rights as whites |
| ON WHAT GROUNDS DID CONGRESS IMPEACH PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON? | He violated the office of tenure act when he fired a cabinet member |
| The 14th amendment granted African Americans citizenship so they could do what? | Vote (southern states said freedmen couldn’t vote bc they weren’t citizens) |
| What term explains how voting rights were taken away from African Americans? | disenfranchisement |
| What set of laws passed by the south limited African Americans’ right to vote? | Jim Crow Laws |
| List two ways in which the Jim Crow laws limited African Americans. | Voters had to pay a Poll tax, own land, pass a literacy test -enforced segregation |
| WHAT IS SEGREGATION? | Forced separation of whites and blacks in public places |
| WHAT COURT CASE MADE SEGREGATION LEGAL IN THE U.S.? | Plessy v Ferguson |
| How was Reconstruction a failure (list 3 ways)? | South was in poverty, south limited blacks from voting, and racism continued in the south |
| What act will prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the U.S.? | Civil Rights Act of 1967 |
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