Chapter 12

Question 1

14th Amendment

Answer 1

(1868) Equal rights for all citizens

Question 2

15th Amendment

Answer 2

(1870) All men have the right to vote

Question 3

Radical Republicans

Answer 3

Wanted to punish the South. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner.

Question 4

Republican Party in the South

Answer 4

Dominated State governments during the first half of reconstruction.

Question 5

Impeachment

Answer 5

High Superior Charged with wrong-doing.

Question 6

Klu Klux Klan

Answer 6

Founded in 1866. Main goal was to restore democratic power in the south using any means necessary.

Question 7

Scalawag

Answer 7

Southerner supporting Republican party

Question 8

Carpetbagger

Answer 8

Northerner who went into the south after war to make money, help people, etc.

Question 9

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 9

Established at the end of war. Assisted former slaves and poor people in the south.

Question 10

Sharecropping.

Answer 10

Certain percentage of your crop is used to pay for land rent.

Question 11

Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Answer 11

Divided South into 5 military districts.

Question 12

Redeemers

Answer 12

White Democrats trying to regain power in the south.

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 13

Offered ten percent plan to restore the union.

Question 14

Andrew Johnson

Answer 14

Carries on Lincolns plan. Made it easy for confederate states to be readmitted.

Question 15

U.S Grant

Answer 15

Became president after war in 1868. Served two terms, faced a lot of scandals and corruption weakened the KKK.

Question 16

Hiram Revels

Answer 16

First black U.S. Senator. Elected from state of Mississippi.

Question 17

Edwin Stanton

Answer 17

Secretary of war. Fired by Andrew Johnson which started process of impeachment.

Question 18

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 18

Won election of 1876.

Question 19

Compromise of 1877

Answer 19

Democrats agree to not challenge the election of Hayes. Republicans agree to pull troops out of the south end reconstruction.