American Nations: Chapter 16- Study Guide

Question 1

Republican group who wanted greater assurances of white loyalty and greater guarantees of black rights after the Civil War

Answer 1

radical reconstructionists

Question 2

document that outlined Lincoln’s plan for readmitting Southern states to the Union & reconstructing the South after the war.

Answer 2

Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction

Question 3

proposed by radical Republicans; wanted stricter provisions for Reconstruction & punishment for former Confederates.

Answer 3

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 4

the group that was created to help freed slaves transition into life as freedmen.

Answer 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 5

discriminatory Southern laws used during Reconstruction to restrict black freedoms.

Answer 5

black codes

Question 6

amendment that defines citizenship and guarantees citizens due process & equal protection.

Answer 6

14th amendment

Question 7

amendment that abolished slavery.

Answer 7

13th Amendment

Question 8

amendment that established universal male suffrage.

Answer 8

15th Amendment

Question 9

Lincoln’s VP; Southern Democrat, anti-wealth and anti-aristocracy President who sabotaged Republican Reconstruction efforts.

Answer 9

Andrew Johnson

Question 10

laws that prevented intermarriage between Black and White citizens.

Answer 10

anti-miscegenation laws

Question 11

act that established military rule in the South and stated that the military would supervise voter registration in the South.

Answer 11

Military Reconstruction Act

Question 12

Southern term for Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the war.

Answer 12

carpetbaggers

Question 13

a system in which white planters divided up large plantations into small farms which freedmen rented.

Answer 13

sharecropping

Question 14

former Civil War general who became a president whose administration was known for corruption.

Answer 14

U.S. Grant

Question 15

white Southerners who owned small, independent farms.

Answer 15

yeomen

Question 16

Confederate paramilitary organization that supported Democrats & terrorized blacks and Republicans in the South.

Answer 16

Ku Klux Klan

Question 17

system in which merchants sold goods to sharecroppers in exchange for a claim on their future crop.

Answer 17

crop lien

Question 18

act that made it a felony to interfere with voting rights; almost destroyed the KKK.

Answer 18

Ku Klux Klan Act

Question 19

act that outlawed racial discrimination in transportation, public accommodations, & juries.

Answer 19

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Question 20

the name Southern Democrats called themselves as they took over when Republican governments in the South collapsed.

Answer 20

Redeemers

Question 21

Republican President who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote and therefore the election.

Answer 21

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 22

transitioning from slavery to free labor

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most difficult problem for the South after the Civil War.

Question 23

term that refers to the right to vote.

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suffrage

Question 24

generally expanded black rights in the US & banned discrimination in state laws; passed by Congress with the first override of a presidential veto in US history.

Answer 24

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 25

3 groups that made up the Republican Party in the South

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Freedmen, Northern whites, yeoman farmers.

Question 26

agreement in which Democrats promised not to interfere with Hayes’s inauguration if Republicans in Congress promised to keep the army out of the South.

Answer 26

Compromise of 1877

Question 27

Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were the personal property of their masters and therefore had no standing in court.

Answer 27

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 28

first military engagement of the Civil War

Answer 28

Fort Sumter.

Question 29

bloodiest single day of the Civil War

Answer 29

Antietam.

Question 30

most significant turning point of the Civil War

Answer 30

Gettysburg.

Question 31

location of the Confederate surrender at the end of the Civil War

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Appomattox Court House.

Question 32

3 major focus areas of Republican Reconstruction

Answer 32

education, civil rights, economic improvement.

Question 33

3 major goals of freedmen

Answer 33

finding lost family members, independent worship, economic independence (land ownership).