Chapter 15

Question 1

End of the Civil War

Answer 1

Spring of 1865

Question 2

How many casualties did the Civil War claim

Answer 2

700,000

Question 3

Date of the ratification to the 13th amendment

Answer 3

December 6, 1865

Question 4

Federal governments major challenges in reconstructing the south

Answer 4

• property value collapse
• value of the confederate dollar going to 0
• wiped out the markets for slavery, cotton, and tobacco
• deciding how to govern the southern states
• deciding the status of the slaves

Question 5

Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

Answer 5

-Former Rebel States could form a government when 10 percent of voters in 1860 pledged an oath of allegiance to the constitution and a presidential pardon.

Question 6

Radical Republicans

Answer 6

• Abolitionist congressman whom wanted swift emancipation of slaves and punishment for Rebels, as well as tight control of former confederate states.
• Thought we should replace the planer elite with small farmers and middle class republicans both black and white to replace the southern government.

Question 7

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 7

(Henry Davis of Maryland and Benjamin Wade of Ohio.)
Required that a majority of white male citizens declare their allegiance to the union before a Confederate state could be re-admitted. Was vetoed by President Lincoln.

Question 8

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 8

Provided assistance to suffering “freedmen and their wives and children”, protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and land ownership. This marked the first time the government directly aided the people rather than the states.

Question 9

Assassination of Lincoln

Answer 9

April 14, 1865

Question 10

Johnson’s Restoration Plan

Answer 10

Each state had to ratify the 13th amendment before it could be readmitted, it could appoint a unionist as governer, encouraged giving a few blacks voting right (no state did) and disqualifying wealthy ex-confederates the right to vote.

Question 11

Black Codes

Answer 11

Laws passed in southern states that restricted the rights of former slaves. Such as, blacks marriages were recognized, but they could not vote or serve on juries. They could own property but not farmland in Mississippi or city property in South Carolina. Had to be apprenticed by a white male if over the age of 18 or be thrown in jail.

Question 12

13th Amendment

Answer 12

Ended Slavery

Question 13

14th Amendment

Answer 13

Government was talking responsibility for protecting the civil rights of American’s, including former slaves. July 28, 1868.

Question 14

Congressional Reconstruction

Answer 14

Passage of 3 Laws:
*Military Reconstruction Act - Abolished all of the new governments in the rebel states, in their place congress established military control over them (Except Tennessee-Already ratified the 14th) and divided into five districts each commanded by a general who acted as governer.

• The Command of the Army Act - directed that all army orders from the president go through the army’s commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant.
• The Tenure of Office Act - required senate permission for the president to remove any federal official whose appointment the Senate had confirmed.

This reconstruction sought o ensure that freed slaves could participate in the creation of new state governments.

Question 15

15th Amendment

Answer 15

Gave African Americans the right to vote. Passed on February 26 1869 and ratified on February 3 1870.

Question 16

Sharecropping

Answer 16

White landowners provided land, seed, and tools to a poor black family in exchange for a share of the crop.

Question 17

Carpetbaggers

Answer 17

Northerners who rushed to the south with their belongings in suitcases made of carpets. In hopes of grabbing some political power, help rebuild the regions devestated economy, or teachers/ministers/social workers wanting to help freed blacks and poor whites.

Question 18

Scalawags

Answer 18

Southerners who had opposed secession but supported the Confederacy once the war started, and then became republicans after the war was over.

Question 19

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 19

Formed in 1866 in Pulasi Tennessee, started out as a group of pranksters, but soon turned into a terrorist orginization targeting african americans as well as carpetbagger and scalawags.

Question 20

Greenbacks

Answer 20

green paper money that is not backed by gold

Question 21

Panic of 1873

Answer 21

25 railroads stopped paying their bills, which led to the major lendeing company to go bankrupt which resulted in an economic collapse. Causing the nation to print out more greenbacks.

Question 22

Enforcement Acts (1870-1871)

Answer 22

Imposed penalties on anyone who interfered with any citizen’s right to vote. Dispatched federal election supervisors and marshals to monitor elections in southern districts where political terrorism flourished. Outlawed the main activities of the KKK.

Question 23

Redeemers

Answer 23

Postwar white Democratic leaders in the south who supposedly saved the region from political, economic, and social domination by northerners and blacks.

Question 24

The Compromise of 1877

Answer 24

The republicans promised that if Hayes were named president, he would remove the last federal troops from the South, letting the state Republican governments there collapse, marking the end of Reconstruction.