Chapter 12 Test

Question 1

Damage done to the Southern economy

Answer 1

homes and farms destroyed, 3 million freed slaves without jobs or homes and 1/4 of southern young men had died

Question 2

Sherman’s proposal for giving land to freed slaves

Answer 2

40 acres and a mule

Question 3

13th amendment

Answer 3

slaves are free

Question 4

14th amendment

Answer 4

equality for all under the law

Question 5

15th amendment

Answer 5

right to vote regardless of race

Question 6

Lincoln’s plan for allowing all southern states back into the Union

Answer 6

pardon former confederates, 10% of population had to pledge loyalty

Question 7

Radical Republicans

Answer 7

advocated for full citizenship

Question 8

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 8

required majority of prewar voters to swear loyalty, equality for African Americans, Lincoln refused to sign

Question 9

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 9

helped black and white southern refugees with basic human rights, Andrew Johnson vetoed funding it further

Question 10

Andrew Johnson

Answer 10

became president after Lincoln was assassinated, did not sympathize with African Americans, states needed to ratify 13th and he refused

Question 11

Black codes

Answer 11

laws that restricted rights of African Americans

Question 12

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 12

Guaranteed civil rights, overturned black codes, Johnson vetoed but states overturned the veto

Question 13

Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 13

states had to write new constitutions that guaranteed suffrage for black men, needed to ratify the 14th

Question 14

Johnson’s Impeachment

Answer 14

fired his secretary of war, impeached in the House of Representatives but not in the senate by one vote

Question 15

Year that Confederate states were back in Union

Answer 15

1870

Question 16

Ways that black men served in the public office in the South

Answer 16

local and state politics, education and law enforcement

Question 17

Advantage that northerners who moved to the South had over southerners

Answer 17

literacy

Question 18

Railroad corruption and black politicians

Answer 18

used railroads as a reason why black politicians should not be in office

Question 19

How freed slaves built community in the South

Answer 19

established churches and attended mass

Question 20

3 ways people farmed land in the South

Answer 20

sharecropping, share tenancy and tenant farming

Question 21

How did the KKK impact black people’s right to vote

Answer 21

made people afraid to vote

Question 22

Tactics of the KKK

Answer 22

violence, destroyed black businesses and homes, arson

Question 23

Racial violence in the North

Answer 23

in Philly, a black man was killed for voting

Question 24

Grant as a president

Answer 24

dealt with corruption in admin, did not root it out

Question 25

Southern democrats and southern republicans - why they worked together

Answer 25

wanted to increase their influence and power in Congress

Question 26

Reasons why northern pressure on reconstruction faded

Answer 26

Northern economy was in trouble, abolitionist leaders died

Question 27

Compromise of 1877

Answer 27

Hayes was elected president, remaining troops were withdrawn from the South, southerners are given high ranking cabinet positions, got federal subsidy to build railroad and improve ports

Question 28

List 5 impacts of Reconstruction

Answer 28

• agriculture changed
• African Americans were given their rights
• women’s suffrage gained momentum
• republican and democrat party changed
• issue of race and equality would plague the South