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History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is a Radical Republican? | Republicans committed to expanding the rights of free Black Americans |
| What is a moderate Republican? | less committed to black suffrage while otherwise embracing civil equality |
| Presidential reconstruction | gave the white South power in regulating the transition from slavery |
| The 14th Amendment grants the right to... | Legal equality regardless of race |
| 13th Amendment | No slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime |
| 15th amendment | US citizen's right to vote shall not be denied by anyone on account of race |
| A carpetbagger was a northerner who went to the South to take advantage of reconstruction | True |
| Scalawags were white politicians who worked with freed men | True |
| The Freedmans Bureau was... | Government agency tasked with helping the freedmen after the war |
| Sharecropping was a practice in which land was renter to families in exchange for a share of crops grown on said land | True |
| Black codes allowed black people the right to buy/own property, conduct business, and move freely through public spaces | False |
| How did Andrew Johnson change the course of reconstruction? | He let the south govern themselves as the had before the war |
| How did white democrats keep power in the south | Black Codes, KKK, Voter intimidation |
| Compromise of 1877 | The end of Reconstruction |
| The KKK was responsible for most lynchings, attacks, and terrorism of Black Americans in the South | True |
| Homer Plessy | Broke the Separate Car Act saying it was against the 14th amendment |
| Historians agree the main cause of the American Civil War was... | Slavery |
| In Homer v Plessy the Supreme Court ruled... | Segregation was ok as long as both races had equal facilities or spaces |
| What was the purpose of the Enforcement Acts of 70-71? | Reduce the power of white terrorist organizations |
| Why were white politicians elected at the end of reconstruction called "redeemers" | Because they were "saving" the South from Republican and black rule |
| The Jim Crow Era can be described as... | The period in which racial segregation laws were passed in many US states |
| During reconstruction poor whites and blacks worked together in politics because | Both groups had shared interests |
| Freed Black Americans aspired to which of the following goals after the war: | Education, Land ownership, Political power |
| Which of the following was not a reason for the end of reconstruction | True racial equality was achieved |
| What was the "Cornerstone" of the Confederacy according to Alexander Stephens? | White supremacy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union. |
| Reconstruction | the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union |
| 13th Amendment (1865) | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |
| 15th Amendment (1870) | U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because of race, color, or creed |
| The First Ku Klux Klan | A domestic terrorist organization started in 1866 to reassert white supremacy in the South |
| Black Codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War |
| The Compromise of 1877 | Compromise that enabled Republican Rutherford Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction |
| Carpetbaggers | A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states |
| Scalawags | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with Northern Republicans |
| Sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War |
| Radical Republicans | After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought civil rights should be expanded for Black Americans |
| Impeachment | Charges against a president approved by a majority of the House of Representatives |
| Republic | A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws. |
| Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of capital |
| Supreme Court | the highest federal court in the United States |
| Federalism | A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments |
| Congress | the legislature of the United States government |
| Senate | the upper house of Congress, consisting of two representatives from each state |
| House of Representatives | the lower house of Congress, consisting of a different number of representatives from each state, depending on population |
| Constitution | A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society |
| Amendment | A change to the Constitution |
| how Andrew Johnson changed the course of reconstruction after Lincoln was assassinated | He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance, but required leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons. |
| Causes of the Civil War | Economic, Political, Cultural, Social |
| Causes of the Civil War Economic | Taxes and tariffs were passed that economically favored the North, the South relied on slave labor to produce their main resource (cotton) |
| Causes of the Civil War Political | The Southern states believed that the states should be able to ignore laws made by the federal government if they were unjust |
| Causes of the Civil War Cultural | Sectionalism means that people in the US felt more loyalty to the region they lived in rather than the US as a whole |
| Causes of the Civil War Social | Slavery was the key issue that caused the Civil War. Slavery had been at the heart of numerous political crises for years, The first Republican president caused the Southern States to panic |
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