Chapter 16-Reconstruction

Question 1

Freedmen

Answer 1

Were slaves that had been freed because the north won the war.

Question 2

Reconstruction

Answer 2

The period from the end of the Civil War (1865) to 1877

Question 3

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 3

Developing a plan to bring the seceded states back into the Union.

Question 4

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 4

The plan offered pardons to former Confederates who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union.

Question 5

Radical Republicans

Answer 5

They believed that the plan treated the South too kindly.

Question 6

Wade – Davis Bill

Answer 6

A state could reenter the union when 50% of the voters who had been registered in 1860 had taken the oath of allegiance.

Question 7

Amnesty

Answer 7

A group pardon

Question 8

The 13th amendment

Answer 8

Abolished slavery

Question 9

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

Answer 9

They would determine when the southern states were truly reconstructed.

Question 10

Black codes

Answer 10

It gave them access to the courts, they could own property, and they could legally marry… But it also made them second-class citizens.

Question 11

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 11

Helped Charles Sumner lead radical reconstruction

Question 12

Charles Sumner

Answer 12

Helped Thaddeus Stevens lead radical reconstruction

Question 13

Friedmans bureau

Answer 13

The first federal relief agency designed to provide aid for refugees

Question 14

Civil rights act of 1866

Answer 14

Granted full citizenship to blacks

Question 15

14th amendment

Answer 15

1. Granted citizenship to all people living in the US
2. Based representation in Congress on a states entire population.
3. Prohibited former confederates from voting are holding office.
4. Fused to assume confederate war debts

Question 16

Radical reconstruction

Answer 16

When the Republicans who had controlin both houses of Congress, took control of reconstruction

Question 17

Reconstruction act of 1867

Answer 17

Divided the south into five military districts’s.

Question 18

Carpetbaggers

Answer 18

Northerners to move south to help radical reconstruction

Question 19

Scalawag

Answer 19

White southerners who supported radical reconstruction

Question 20

Tenor of office act

Answer 20

Made it illegal to remove any cabinet appointee without Senate approval

Question 21

Edwin Stanton (Secretary of War)

Answer 21

Removed from office

Question 22

Impeachment

Answer 22

To bring charges against a public official in an attempt to remove him from office

Question 23

William Seward

Answer 23

Johnson Secretary of State

Question 24

15th amendment

Answer 24

Prevented states from denying the vote to any person “ on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. “

Question 25

Bourbon reconstruction

Answer 25

Began as a result of conservation Southerners trying to take over the reconstruction process from Congress

Question 26

Samuel J Tilden

Answer 26

Was the democrat candidate in the disputed election

Question 27

Rutherford B Hayes

Answer 27

Was the Republican candidate in the disputed election

Question 28

Sharecropping

Answer 28

Tenants farmed small plots of land and paid in your annual rent for the use of the land with a part of their crop.

Question 29

Milltown

Answer 29

Entire communities were built near the Mills as textiles became the dominant industry in the new south.

Question 30

My Klux Klan

Answer 30

They sought for ways to oppose radical reconstruction and suppress blacks.