Chapter 10 Reconstruction

Question 1

Frederick Douglass

Answer 1

Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action

Question 2

13th Amendment

Answer 2

Abolished slavery. First of three “Reconstruction Amendments” passed after Civil War (1865-70)

Question 3

Reconstruction

Answer 3

rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

17th President of the United States

Question 5

Black Codes

Answer 5

Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

Question 6

14th Amendment

Answer 6

gives U.S. citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in America

Question 7

Military Reconstruction Act

Answer 7

Former Confederate states were placed in 5 military districts

Question 8

15th Amendment

Answer 8

States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.

Question 9

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 9

Congressional plan for Reconstruction that Lincoln refused to sign

Question 10

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 10

This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans

Question 11

Hiram Revels

Answer 11

The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Question 12

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 12

White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties

Question 13

Impeach

Answer 13

To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office

Question 14

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 14

President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, it offered southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion.

Question 15

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 15

Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War

Question 16

Sharecropping

Answer 16

farming someone else’s land while paying a share of the crops raised for rent

Question 17

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 17

United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West

Question 18

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 18

Court case that established “separate but equal” laws

Question 19

Tenant Farmer

Answer 19

Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops

Question 20

Disenfranchise

Answer 20

To deprive of some privilege or right, especially the right to vote

Question 21

Scalawags

Answer 21

A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.

Question 22

Carpet Baggers

Answer 22

Northerners who moved down to the South during Reconstruction for monetary or political gain

Question 23

Blanche K. Bruce

Answer 23

Became a senator in 1874 – the only black to be elected to a full term until Edward Brooke in 1966.

Question 24

Amnesty

Answer 24

A pardon to a group of people

Question 25

Poll Tax

Answer 25

A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

Question 26

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 26

19th President

Question 27

Redeemers

Answer 27

white Democrats who used their political power to oppress the Black community

Question 28

Literacy Test

Answer 28

A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote

Question 29

Radical Republicans

Answer 29

Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war

Question 30

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 30

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Question 31

Separate but equal

Answer 31

Doctrine that public accommodations could be segregated by race but still be considered equal