Ch.11-12

Question 1

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

executive action
-antietam
-abolish slavery in the Confederacy

Question 2

Gettysburg Address

Answer 2

• speech given by President Linocln during the war, post battle of Gettysburg,
  -redefine the war for a moral purpose
  -discuss abolishing slavery
  -discusses moving forwards, progress, unity together
  -We NEED to FINISH the job!

Question 3

13th Amendment

Answer 3

-abolishes slavery throughout United States of America

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

-president to almost be impeached
-takes over after Lincoln’s assassination

Question 5

Radical Republicans

Answer 5

radical= extreme
-believe that the legislative branch that should control the Reconstruction not executive
-want to punish the South
-they wanted to push for 14 and 15 amendments to actually help African Americans have a life

Question 6

Compromise of 1877

Answer 6

formally end the Reconstruction period- a period of rebuilding of relations between North/ South lasting from 1865-1877
-military in the South will leave

Question 7

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 7

• created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support

Question 8

black codes

Answer 8

laws enacted by Southern states to restrict the rights and freedoms of newly freed African Americans, aiming to maintain a system of forced labor and social control similar to slavery.

Question 9

14th Amendment

Answer 9

-granted citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States
-everyone must have equal legal protection and due process

Question 10

Impeach

Answer 10

-charge an elected official (ex. president) w/a crime

Question 11

15th Amendment

Answer 11

no one in United States can be denied the rights to vote based off of race

Question 12

scalawag

Answer 12

white Southerners who supported Reconstruction

Question 13

carpetbagger

Answer 13

Northern businessmen and politicians who migrated to the South to work on Reconstruction projects or invest (exploit) southern infrastructure. Some were from Freedmen’s Bureau
sharecropping

Question 14

tenant farming

Answer 14

step above sharecropping (better)
-$ involved and need of paying rent
-economic disadvantage
-to tenant= to rent
-more of an option to make money for yourself and put way smaller aside
-same time as sharecropping usage

Question 15

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 15

-wanted to prevent Reconstruction from happening
-uses violence and intimidation to go against African Americans

Question 16

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 16

-republican president