Bethpage Geography and Reconstruction

Question 1

What were some problems during recconstruction?

Answer 1

Slaves and how to adjust to this period of reunion.

Question 2

What did Lincoln want to accomplish?

Answer 2

Reunite the country

Question 3

What was freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 3

gov’t agency to protect slave rights, education, marriage, banks,hospitals.

Question 4

What was Lincolns 10% plan?

Answer 4

10% of voters in the 1860 took an oath of loyalty, then they could start to set up state gov’t.No pardon for confederate officials or military leaders.

Question 5

Who hated the 10% plan?

Answer 5

Radical Republicans

Question 6

What was the Wade Davis Bill?

Answer 6

Rival plan for reconstruction, majority of white men swear loyalty to the union,denied the right to vote/hold office if fought in the civil war, Lincoln pocket veto

Question 7

What happens after Lincoln died

Answer 7

Andrew Johnson becomes president, there were rival plans to rebuild the south.

Question 8

What was Johnsons Plan?

Answer 8

gave forgiveness to all confederates ad property,must ratify the 13th amendment-freed slaves,recognized 4 southern state govt and soon to admit others.

Question 9

What did they want to impeach johnson?

Answer 9

radical republicans controlled congress and did not get along w/ johnson.blocked efforts or radical reconstruction.

Question 10

Why did they impeach johnson and when?

Answer 10

In 1868 house charged Johnson w/ high crimes and misdemeanors violated tenure of office act.They impeached him for firing someone

Question 11

Did they have enough voted to kick johnson out of office?

Answer 11

no they were one vote shy

Question 12

Who saved johnson from getting kicked out?

Answer 12

Edmund ross from Kansas who was knew to the govt and he was threatened to lose his job if he didnt vote to kick johnson out but he did any way and lost his job

Question 13

What was radical reconstruction

Answer 13

south divided into 5 military districts controlled by the army,New state govt had to grant black males the right to vote,before readmission to the union,southern stated had to ratify 14th amendment civil rights issue prohibited former confederate officers and govt officials from voting.

Question 14

What happened with state government

Answer 14

white concern limit the freedom of former slaves,republicans headed new govt.blacks ad the right to vote supported republicans,many elected into office.

Question 15

What were the 13th 14th and 15th amendments

Answer 15

13th-abolished slavery in the US
14th native born or naturalized people were citizens forbade any laws to deprive any person life liberty or property
15th-declared state could not keep african american males from voting

Question 16

What were scalawags

Answer 16

southerners who sided with the north

Question 17

what were carpet baggers?

Answer 17

northerners who went south to profit in reconstruction

Question 18

Who was in the election of 1868 and who won

Answer 18

Grant vs Horatio Seymour
Grant won by a landslide

Question 19

Who were the Ku Klux Klan

Answer 19

southern white secret society,intimidate blacks,carpetbaggers,scalaways,burned houses and crosses,flogged people,lynches blacks.

Question 20

Who was U.S grant

Answer 20

President,scandals rail road,salary grab

Question 21

What was the 1872 Amnesty act

Answer 21

former confederates gain political rights

Question 22

What is share cropping

Answer 22

cycle of poverty,farmers former slaves and poor whites worked on large plantations,plantation owners supplied seed,fertilizer and tools,planters got share of crop at harvest

Question 23

Who ran for president in 1876

Answer 23

Tilden vs. Hayes

Question 24

What happened in the election os 1876

Answer 24

hayes loses popular vote and electoral voted are debated,hayes promised the military will leave the south if he is elected,this makes the south happy.

Question 25

What were the voting restriction?

Answer 25

poll taxes,literacy test,grandfather clause

Question 26

What was the poll taxes

Answer 26

you would have to pay a fee each time you voted

Question 27

what were the literacy test

Answer 27

you would have to read and explain part of the constitution in order to vote

Question 28

What was the grandfather clause?

Answer 28

if you father/grandfather had been eligible to vote before 1867 you did not have to take the literarcy test in order to vote.

Question 29

What is segregation

Answer 29

seperation of races in all aspects of society known as jim crown laws

Question 30

What was the plessy vs. fegurson (1896) establish?

Answer 30

established that segregation was legal as long as facilities were equal.Established separate but equal clause

Question 31

Who is the original owner of Bethpage.

Answer 31

Thomas Powell who was a devout quaker,

Question 32

Where did thomas powell originally own land

Answer 32

He originally owned land in hunginton, in 1695 he bought te lnd from the Massapequa and the othe rnative american tribes

Question 33

Why is bethpage called bethpage

Answer 33

Powell names it after a name in the bible which means house of figs

Question 34

What was bethpage once called

Answer 34

in the 1857 it was called central park and they changes it back to bethpage in 1936

Question 35

What was the famous resturant in bethpage

Answer 35

Beau Sejor,it was on the corner of central ave and stewart ave open from 1908-1972

Question 36

What place was where the library is now?

Answer 36

pwell avenue school,this school was better than the original because it had running water and heat.

Question 37

What was the libraby remodled to look like

Answer 37

and airplane hanger

Question 38

What was CCS named after

Answer 38

a board member