Chapter 15-19 vocab

Question 1

Took office and revealed his reconstruction plan in 1865

Answer 1

Andrew Johnson

Question 2

What did Andrew Johnsons reconstruction plan entail?

Answer 2

grant amnesty to Southerns who would take an oath of allegiance, governor in each state and charge him with inviting qualified voters to elect delegates to constitutional convention, revoke its ordinance of secession, abolish slavery and ratify the 13th amendment and repudiate Confederate and state war debts

Question 3

Washington outlined a controversial philosophy of race relations; blacks should forgo agitation for political rights and concentrate on self-improvement and preparation for equality

Answer 3

Atlanta Compromise

Question 4

Laws that authorized local officials to apprehend unemployed blacks, fine them for vagrancy, hire them out to private employers to satisfy the fines

Answer 4

black codes

Question 5

critics labeled southern white Republicans by this derogatory term

Answer 5

carpetbagger and scalawag

Question 6

purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.

Answer 6

Compromise of 1877

Question 7

a credit system widely used in the South after the Civil War in which farmers promised a portion of their future crops in exchange for supplies from local merchants

Answer 7

crop-lien system

Question 8

prohibited states from discriminating against voters on the basis of race and gave the national government the authority to prosecute crimes by individuals under federal law

Answer 8

enforcement acts

Question 9

What amendment gives everyone born in the United States, and everyone naturalized, was automatically a citizen and entitled to all the “privileges and immunities” guaranteed by the Constitution, including equal protection of the laws

Answer 9

14th

Question 10

what amendment granted black men the right to vote

Answer 10

15th

Question 11

This helped at Black men get feed, clothe, educate, and provide medical care for ex-slaves

Answer 11

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 12

President Johnson got impeached. What does impeach mean?

Answer 12

the process of charging a public official with misconduct, with the potential for punishment including loss of office

Question 13

laws restricting the franchise and segregating schools were only part of a network of state and local statutes

Answer 13

Jim Crow laws

Question 14

Members of this group were powerful, conservative, and oligarchy

Answer 14

redeemers

Question 15

farming system in which large landowners rent their fields to farmers, and families in return for a share of the crop’s production

Answer 15

sharecropping

Question 16

This act permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee if they occupied the land they purchased for five years and improved it

Answer 16

Homestead act

Question 17

This act provided for the gradual elimination of most tribal ownership of land and the allotment of tracts to individual owners

Answer 17

Dawes Act

Question 18

what year did the battle of little big horn happen?

Answer 18

1876

Question 19

the owner of standard oil company of Ohio in 1870

Answer 19

John D. Rockefeller’s

Question 20

The process of buying and preparing food became a critical part of…

Answer 20

consumerism

Question 21

the process whereby an empire or nation pursues military, political, or economic advantage by extending its extending its rule over external territories and people

Answer 21

imperialism