2 Module 19 Lessons 1-3 slides

Question 1

What is another law that Republicans passed once they got into office?

Answer 1

Passed a law limiting the president’s powers to remove cabinet members without SENARTE approval

Question 2

Did president Johnson listen to the new laws passed about firing cabinet members? And how did Congress react?

Answer 2

No, President broke that law by firing his secretary of war, Congress reacted by impeaching the president

Question 3

Was President Johnson impeached?

Answer 3

The impeachment fell short by one vote but his power was greatly reduced

Question 4

Who won the election of 1868 and where African Americans happy with him?

Answer 4

General Ulysses S. Grant was elected president. African American votes helped Grant win a narrow victory.

Question 5

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

Answer 5

Guaranteed African American men the right to vote

Question 6

Who controlled most southern governments? And how did the Southerns feel about it?

Answer 6

Republicans
White Southerns were not happy about it

Question 7

Who was the souths largest republicans voters?

Answer 7

African Americans

Question 8

What did the states governments provided money for many new programs help build?

Answer 8

Helped establish
-Public schools
-Built hospitals .
-Constructed railroads and bridges

Question 9

Who created the Ku Klux Klan and where was it created?

Answer 9

Created by a group of white Southerns
In Tennessee

Question 10

What did the Ku Klux Klan oppose?

Answer 10

Civil Rights, particularly suffrage(right to vote), for African Americans

Question 11

What did the Ku Klux Klan do to African Americans? What and who stopped the things being done to African Americans?

Answer 11

Used Violence and Terror against African Americans
Congress passed the Enforcement Acts

Question 12

Why did the Compromise of 1877 have to make sure Democrats would accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes’s being elected and what did they get out of it?

Answer 12

The Compromise of 1877 gave the election to Hayes, while agreeing to Democrats’ request to remove federal troops from the South.

Question 13

Who were in the presidential election of 1876 and who won? Any why did they win?

Answer 13

Democrat Samuel Tilden
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes won by the Compromise of 1877

Question 14

What did Redeemer Governments do to African Americans?

Answer 14

-Set up poll tax (Denied the right to vote to African Americans)
-Introduced segregation, through the Jim Crow Laws

Question 15

What did the Supreme Court rule about segregation?

Answer 15

The Supreme Court ruled:
-Civil Rights of 1875 were unconstitutional
-Plessy v. Ferguson ruled segregation was allowed if “separate-but-equal” facilities were provided

Question 16

Why did sharecropping become to happen and did sharecropping work?

Answer 16

Most African Americans could not afford to buy land, so many began sharecropping
But sharecropping left farmers in debt

Question 17

What did the South’s economy depend on for profits? And where those profits helping the economy grow again?

Answer 17

South depended on cotton profits, which went up and down which did not help so the south turned to the industry to strengthen the economy.

Question 18

Did turning to the industries help the economy?

Answer 18

helped the southern economy grow stronger

Question 19

What were the first two states to grant women the right to vote in 1869?

Answer 19

Wyoming and Utah

Question 20

After reconstruction what did the Republican party focus eventually doing?

Answer 20

reducing government corruption (dishonesty)