🐉 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Reuniting of America
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Radical Republican plan wanted a much more harsh punishment
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans settle into freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s theater
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Petersen House
Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to anyone born in U.S.
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave A-A men voting rights
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in state’s general assembly
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners that moved to South during reconstruction to find wealth through industry
What did the name scalawags mean?
White southerners that were pro-union
What was the largest terrorist group in America against African-American rights?
KKK
What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes’ victory in the Election of 1876?
More electoral votes but less popular votes than Tilden
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To keep A-A from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of a race
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Required all A-A to be separated in almost every public area
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Was legal as long as it was equal and fair
What was an exoduster?
A-A that left south after war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
