Chapter 15 Vocab

Question 1

Originally designed by Abraham Lincoln as the civil war was drawing to a close; lenient on the south, requiring only 10% of the population in each state to swear loyalty to the U.S. before being admitted back to the Union and accept the 13th amendment

Answer 1

Ten Percent Plan

Question 2

Proposed by the “Radical Republicans” who wanted to harshly punish the south for causing the civil war; requires a majority of its adult white male citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the constitution before readmission. Southerners are also not allowed to hold office if they aided the confederacy

Answer 2

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 3

The presidential act of blocking a congressional passed law not by direct veto but by refusing to sign it

Answer 3

Pocket veto

Question 4

Vice President of Lincoln, wanted him to readmit former confederate states as soon as possible

Answer 4

Andrew Johnson

Question 5

A set of laws designed by the south as a method to gain control of the slaves like before the civil war

Answer 5

Black codes

Question 6

Created by Congress in 1865 as a response to the harsh southern treatment of newly freed slaves; providing jobs, economic aid and education to the former Slaves

Answer 6

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 7

Affirming citizenship to blacks, directed at destroying Black Codes

Answer 7

Civil Rights Act (1866)

Question 8

A group of republicans who felt that before the south is resorted to the union, the social structure needed to be uprooted, the planters punished and the freedmen protected by federal power

Answer 8

Radical Republicans

Question 9

Equal protection under the law: the amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities it citizens of the United States

Answer 9

14th amendment

Question 10

A radical republican who wanted to bring about a hard, punishing reconstruction for the south and expand upon the rights of newly freed African Americans

Answer 10

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 11

Proposed by the radical republicans who wanted to harshly punish the south. One part of the plan was for the south to be split up into five sections where each would be tightly controlled by northern soldiers and filled over by a military governor, must ratify 14th and 15th amendment before resubmission into the union

Answer 11

Reconstruction Act (1867)

Question 12

To accuse a public official of misconduct, in office and warrant their removal

Answer 12

Impeachment

Question 13

Stated that all male citizens regardless of race, color, or occupation had the right to vote

Answer 13

15th amendment

Question 14

Device to restrict blacks from exercising their right to vote by requiring them to pay a fee or require some form of property qualification

Answer 14

Poll tax

Question 15

Established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890; Women’s Rights March

Answer 15

National Women Suffrage Association

Question 16

A system of cotton growing agriculture practiced in the south, where former slaves would exchange their labor for the use of land, Home, and tools used in agriculture

Answer 16

Sharecropping

Question 17

System of work disciplined used on southern cotton plantations in the mid 19th century

Answer 17

Gang labor system

Question 18

Crop lien system; banks own the land and farmers have to guarantee a claim of their crops to pay off their loans

Answer 18

Lien

Question 19

An African American representative, served in Mississippi senate

Answer 19

Hiram Revels

Question 20

African American representative; one of the first black senators

Answer 20

Blanche K. Bruce

Question 21

A pro union organization based in the North and was assisted by northern blacks

Answer 21

Union League

Question 22

A derogatory term for southerners who were working with the North

Answer 22

Scalawags

Question 23

A northerner who went to the south immediately after the civil war, especially who tried to gain political advantages from the disorganized situation

Answer 23

Carpetbaggers

Question 24

A scandal that formed when a group of Union Pacific rail road insiders formed the credit mibilier construction company and then hired themselves to build the railroads with inflated wages

Answer 24

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Question 25

Southern democratic term for the end of the reconstruction

Answer 25

Redemption

Question 26

Former confederate general and founder of the KKK

Answer 26

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Question 27

Secretive domestic militant organizations in the US, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope

Answer 27

Ku Klux Klan

Question 28

Passed in 1870/1871, aka KKK Acts; prohibited the states from distracting against voters on the basis of race

Answer 28

Enforcement Laws

Question 29

Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the republican program in the south

Answer 29

Redeemers

Question 30

A series of post-civil war surprise court cases containing the first judicial pronouncements on the 13th-15th amendments

Answer 30

Slaughterhouse casss

Question 31

1876-William Cruikshank argues that his convictions was unconstitutional because his actions in the Colfax massacre weren’t under the authority of federal law; the Supreme Court overturned Cruikshank’s convictions saying that the federal government can only regulate the actions of states regarding civil matters; states regulate individuals

Answer 31

U.S. vs Cruikshank

Question 32

Self-government in local matters by a city of county that is part of a national government

Answer 32

Home rule

Question 33

Candidates were Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden; Hayes elected winner

Answer 33

Election of 1876

Question 34

Liberal republican, civil war general, 19th president

Answer 34

Rutherford B. Hayes