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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did all three Reconstruction plans focus on? | Social and political reconstruction |
| How did Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction differ from the other plans? | He did not want to punish the South and it was meant as an easy way to reunite the nation. |
| Whose plan would have allowed states to re-enter the Union once 10% of the voting population had taken an oath of loyalty? (10% Plan) | Lincoln's |
| What was included in Congress' plan for Reconstruction? (Radical Reconstruction) | 1) Divided the South into 5 military districts 2) Put a general in charge of each district (martial law), 3) Sent in Union soldiers to keep the peace, 4) Banned ex-Confederate from running for office, 5) states must ratify the 14th Amendment |
| In what ways did the freedmen in SC exercise their new political rights? | 1) held positions in local governement, 2) served as state Senators and Representatives, 3) represented SC in Congress, 4) helped write SC's new constitution |
| Which act was passed by Congress in response to violence between the KKK and the state militia and put parts of SC under martial law? | Ku Klux Klan Act |
| Which amendment were states required to ratify under Johnson's plan for Reconstruction? | 13th Amendment |
| Black Codes | Laws placing strict limitations of what freedmen were allowed to do that returned them to a condition similar to slavery. |
| Who believed that Congress should be in charge of Reconstruction Policy and fought to implement their own plan for Reconstruction? | Radical Republicans |
| What was done to try to limit violence and voter intimidation against African Americans? | The federal government sent in troops. |
| Why did some states require literacy tests to vote? | Some states did this to bypass the 15th Amendment and keep freedmen from voting. |
| Why did many African Americans and poor whites end up trapped in a cycle of poverty and debt? | They got stuck in tenant farming contracts and took out crop liens that they could not pay back. |
| Which 3 Amendments are referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments? | 13th, 14th, 15th |
| Which Amendment ended slavery in the U.S.? | 13th Amendment |
| What was the name of the agency that provided food and shelter for former slaves, built and ran free public schools, helped former slaves vote and helped them with labor contracts? | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Who was Andrew Johnson? | Andrew Johnson because president when Lincoln was assassinated. |
| What is one cause of increased racial tensions between freedmen and poor whites? | Competition over sharecropping and tenant farming jobs |
| What year did Reconstruction end? | 1877 |
| The election of which president brought about the end of Reconstruction? | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| What economic system developed in the South as a result of many former slaves needing work and plantation owners needing labor but not having money to pay wages? | Sharecropping and tenant farming |
| What did the 14th Amendment do? | It gave citizenship rights to African Americans and protected the rights of all other "persons born or naturalized in the U.S.". |
| What was the main goal of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction? | To get the union back together as quickly as possible without punishing the South |
| Why did most southern whites not support Reconstruction policies? | They believed they would lose control of their communities |
| How did the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction differ from Lincoln's plan? | The Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for starting the war. |
| What did the 15th Amendment do? | Granted voting rights to African American males. |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | a secret organization that used threats and violence against freedmen to keep them from exercising rights such as voting |
| What did Andrew Johnson do that angered the Radical Republicans in Congress and showed that he did not support rights for Freedmen in the South? | He vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights act of 1866 |
| Scalawag | White Southerners who sided with the North and supported the Republicans' Reconstruction policies. They were views as traitors by other Southerners. |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan Act (Enforement Act) and was it successful? | The law sought to combat the violence initiated by the KKK and allowed the federal government to arrest suspected Klan members. It was largely unsuccessful because most charges were dropped and few Klansmen were convicted. |
| Carpetbagger | Northerners who traveled to the South to take advantage of economic opportunities and to help with the Freedmen's Bureau. Most Southerners viewed them as opportunists who stole the South's resources and took them back North. |
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