8-5 Study Guide Flashcards
By how many votes did the impeachment of Andrew Johnson fail?
One
Which political group believed that the federal government should preside over the South and that African Americans should be helped at the expense of the whites?
Radical republicans
Which angry Southerner assassinated Lincoln two weeks after the Civil War?
John Wilkes Booth
what did the election of Wade Hampton as governor of SC in 1876 mark?
The end of reconstruction and a return of democrats to power.
What is the central theme of the Reconstruction Amendments?
The right to equal treatment of all Americans
Which best describes Lincoln’s 10 percent plan?
A state could re-enter the Union when 10 percent of its voters took a vow of allegiance to the US.
What was the purpose of the 15th Amendment?
To give African Americans the right to vote
Which of the following would describe a scalawag?
Southern republicans who were sympathetic to the Northern politicians
Which of the following would describe the KKK?
Vigilante group that used violence, intimidation and fear against minorities
Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln both had reconstruction plans that the congress disagreed with. What did the congress think was wrong with these plans?
Both plans were too lenient on the Southern states that had seceded from the Union.
Why was the SC Constitution of 1868 the most democratic one ever written?
All of these would be reasons.
- allowed women to own property
- allowed black males the right to vote
- was ratified by the people, not just lawmakers
What did Jim Crow Laws do?
Made racial segregation a part of life in SC
What was the cycle of poverty for black sharecroppers?
Remained economically dependent on the landowner
The political group that wanted SC to return to the “good old boy” ways of before the war were called…
Redeemers
Which of these is the best summation of the Reconstruction period?
A time of new birth and economic growth.
