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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what amendment to the US constitution abolished slavey? | 13th |
| which of these amendments extended voting rights to African American women? | 19th |
| what is state suicide? | radical republicans believed that when the southern states left the United States for the confederacy they gave up their rights and privileges |
| US goal for Reconstruction | promoting equality/citizenship for African Americans, rebuilding southern states and bringing them back into the union, |
| radical republicans distrusted president Andrew Jackson because he | tried to veto important reconstruction legislation |
| which amendment made it unconstitutional to discriminate against anyone? | 14th |
| which amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the USA | 14th |
| who supported extending voting rights for African Americans from the very beginning of reconstruction? | radical republicans |
| what did the freedman bureau do? | built schools, rented land to former slaves, gave out food and clothing to African Americans |
| TRUE or FALSE one of the black codes of the south required African Americans to go to school to learn to read and write | FALSE |
| what did the civil rights act of 1866 accomplish? | it repealed the black codes that dealt with voting rights and jury participation |
| carpetbaggers | northerners who supposedly moved to the south to profit off of southern misfortune |
| " waving the bloody shirt" | a political tactic used by republicans in the election of 1868 |
| scalawags | southerners who supported reconstruction and the republican party |
| redeemers | southern democrats who wanted to regain control of the south through ending reconstruction |
| sharecropping | economic system designed to keep afros in a state as close to slavery as possible |
| KKK | terrorized freed afros from voting |
| Andrew johnson | impeached for violating the tenure of office act |
| compromise of 1877 | major event that marked the official end of reconstruction |
| Ulysses s grant | helped destroy the kkk |
| sam j tilden | won the popular vote but still lost the election |
| compromise of 1877 also... | led to the withdrawal of federal soldiers from the south |
| us army generals | reconstruction acts puts this group in charge of southern sates |
| who was the kkk close with | democrats |
| what ruling did the Supreme Court hand down in plessy v. Ferguson | segregation is only constitutional if the facilities are ' separate but eqaul' |
| what methods did southerners use to deprive afros of their voting rights | poll taxes, literacy tests, violence |
| general grant | only one who could remove a district commander |
| what did the force acts NOT do | create the first poll tax |
| that did the fine acts do | provide federal oversight of elections, made federal crime to prevent voting, and permit the us military to fight the KKk |
| which group supported the repubs in 1860 and 1870 | carpetbaggers, afros, and scalawags |
| who was president as a result of the compromise of 1877 | hayes |
| essay: reconstruction failure or success |