Ch 17

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

the period following the Civil War during which the US government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states

Question 2

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 2

President Abraham Lioncoln’s plan for Reconstruction; once 10 percent of voters in a former Confederate state took a US loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be readmitted to the Union

Question 3

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 3

a constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery

Question 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 4

an agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South

Question 5

Andrew Jackson

Answer 5

Nicknamed Old Hickory, he was an American hero in the Battle of New Orleans. As commander of the Tennessee militia, he defeated the Creek Indians, securing 23 million acres of land. His election as the seventh president of the United States marked an era of democracy called Jacksonian Democracy

Question 6

Black Codes

Answer 6

laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

Question 7

Radical Republicans

Answer 7

members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union

Question 8

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 8

a law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans

Question 9

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 9

a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians

Question 10

Reconstruction Acts

Answer 10

the laws that put the southern states under US military control and required them to draft new constitutions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 11

impeachment

Answer 11

the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

Question 12

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 12

a constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

Question 13

Hiram Revels

Answer 13

American clergyman, educator, and politician, he became the first African American in the US Senate

Question 14

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 14

a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights

Question 15

Compromise of 1877

Answer 15

An agreement to settle the disputed presidential election of 1876. Democrats agree to accept Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops from the South

Question 16

Jim Crow law

Answer 16

a law that enforced segregation in the southern states

Question 17

poll tax

Answer 17

a special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote

Question 18

segregation

Answer 18

the forced separation of people of different races in public places

Question 19

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 19

U.S. Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine for public facilities

Question 20

sharecropping

Answer 20

a system used on southern famrs after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someoene else in return for a small portion of the crops