Chapter 12- Reconstruction

Question 0

3 major issues of reconstruction

Answer 0

1- how to rebuild the souths economy
2- what rights African Americans have now that they’re free
3- how the southern states rejoin the union

Question 1

Reconstruction time period

Answer 1

1865-1877

Question 2

Radical republicans

Answer 2

Advocated full citizenship
Right to vote for blacks
Favored punishment and harsh treatment of south
Supported Sherman’s plan to confiscate Confederates land and give farms to freedom

Question 3

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 3

1864
Majority of states voters loyal to union
Demanded guarantees of African Americans equality
Lincoln killed this by “pocket veto” not signing within the ten day deadline

Question 4

Lincoln’s plan called for ____% to pledge loyalty to the union

Answer 4

10

Question 5

John’s plan called for ____%

Answer 5

10

Question 6

Black codes

Answer 6

Laws that sought to limit the rights of AA and keep them as landless workers
Required to work in a limited number of occupations (servants and farm labors)

Question 7

Vagrancy laws

Answer 7

Some states prohibited AA from owning land, all set up vagrancy laws
Any AA without a job could be arrested and sent to work as prison labor

Question 8

Impeach

Answer 8

To charge someone in office with wrong doing

Question 9

Why was Johnson impeached

Answer 9

For trying to fire the secretary of war Edwin Stanton

Question 10

Was Johnson removed from office

Answer 10

Stays in office by one vote

Shouldn’t have been impeached congress just didn’t like him

Question 11

What other president was impeached

Answer 11

Bill Clinton

Purgery - lying under oath about affair

Question 12

Scalawags

Answer 12

White men who had been locked out of pre civil war politics by their wealthier neighbors (new Republican Party invited them in)
Very negative seen as traders

Question 13

Civil rights act of 1866

Answer 13

Attempting to get some equality and rights for blacks

Question 14

Hiram Revels

Answer 14

First AA to serve in the senate

From Mississippi

Question 15

Carpetbaggers

Answer 15

Newcomers, northern white or black men who relocated to the south, allies with scalawags, seeking to improve their economic/political situations or to help make a better life for freedom
Some good some bad people
Could take advantage with need for supplies, sell land for less than it was worth to make money

Question 16

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 16

Good thing
Provide aid to emancipated salves as they made the transition to freedom
Food, housing, health care, jobs, legalize marriages, schools, colleges

Question 17

Sharecropper

Answer 17

Provided a place to life, provided seeds and tools in return for a “share” of the harvested crop
Land owner bought these supplies on credit, at very high interest from a supplier, then the landlord passed on these costs to the sharecropper
Sharecropper was always in debt to the landowner and the landowner was always in debt to the supplier

Question 18

Tenant Farmers

Answer 18

Tenants paid cash rent to a landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop-and free to choose where he would live.
Only viable for a farmer who had good money management skills

Question 19

40 acres and a mule

Answer 19

Gives newly freed family’s

Question 20

Redeemers

Answer 20

White politicians who were trying to “redeem” the south in the eyes of congress

Question 21

Election of 1876

Answer 21

Rutherford B. Hayes doesn’t win the popular vote
Gets all his votes from the north
They agree to let Hayes win which is known as the Compromise of 1877 as long as he ends reconstruction

Question 22

Compromise of 1877

Answer 22

Agreed to let Hayes win as long as he ended reconstruction

Question 23

Jim Crow laws

Answer 23

Any law that separates whites from blacks

Kept blacks and whites segregated

Question 24

Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)

Answer 24

Separate but equal is okay

Everything is separated

Question 25

Brown vs Board of Education (1954)

Answer 25

Integrated
Supreme Court said it but executive branch didn’t enforce it
SC didn’t integrate schools until 1970

Question 26

Laws that heat blacks from voting

Answer 26

Poll tax
Literacy test
Grandfather clause

Question 27

Poll tax

Answer 27

Required voters to pay a tax to vote

Blacks couldn’t afford it

Question 28

Literacy tests

Answer 28

“Understanding” test

Blacks didn’t have the education to understand it

Question 29

Grandfather clause

Answer 29

Allowed people to vote as long as their ancestors had voted prior to 1866
Blacks didn’t because they weren’t free but poor illiterate white farmers did

Question 30

Booker T. Washington

Answer 30

Education is key

Keep quite, improve ourselves, get educated and be accepted

Question 31

W.E. B. Du Bois

Answer 31

Education is key
We need to demand this and our rights
Founding father of the NAACP (national association for advancement of colored people)

Question 32

Wells

Answer 32

Bring light to lynching (mass beating or killing of people ie. KKK)