Chapter 16 (Recontruction) Flashcards
Person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The bringing of formal changes against a public official
Impeachment
Laws used by southern states to control African Americans
Black codes
Term for white southern Republicans who opposed secession
Scalawag
Name given to northern whites who went south to start businesses or to pursue political careers during Reconstruction
Carpetbagger
Separation of people of different races
Segregation
Personal Tax to be paid before voting
Poll tax
People who farmed rented land in return for a share of crop profits
Sharecroppers
Test that showed that they could read and explain part of the Constitution
Literacy test
Said all people born in the United States are citizens and their rights cant be taken away
14th amendment
This banned slavery and forced labor
13th amendment
this barred states from denying African Americans the right to vote
15th amendment
This barred the mixing of races in almost all aspects of life
Jim Crow Laws
Men and women who had been slaves
Freedmen
The assassination of Lincoln dashed hopes for a ________ plan for Reconstruction
Lenient
____________ lost power in Congress because both northerners and southerners believed it was time to let southerners run their own governments
Radical Republicans
Republicans were hurt by widespread corruption in the administration of _________
Grant
The election of _______ led to the end of reconstruction
Hayes
During Reconstruction, the South began to develop its _________ in order to become more self-sufficient
Manufacturing
A government pardon
Amnesty
Pardoned confederate officials
Lincoln/Johnson Reconstruction Plan
Organized south into 5 military districts
Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan
Returned land to their former owners
Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan
Southerners had to pledge loyalty to the US
Lincoln/Johnson Reconstruction Plan
Was harsher to the south or the “Hit Hit Spank Spank” Plan
Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan
New State governments looked a lot like the old ones
Lincoln/Johnson Reconstruction Plan
Was considered the “Kiss Kiss Hug Hug” plan
Lincoln/Johnson Reconstruction Plan
Allowed African Americans to vote
Lincoln/Johnson Reconstruction Plan
Which of the following systems created a cycle of debt?
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Why were many white women suffragists upset by the 15th amendment?
Woman couldn’t vote
The assassination of Lincoln in the end was bad for the south because
Johnson didn’t like confederates
Radical Republicans wanted Johnson removed from the presidency because
Johnson didn’t agree with Radical Republican politics
Besides former slaves, the Ku Klux Klan attacked…
Their white allies
When Reconstruction began, Lincoln’s main goal was to…
Reunite the Nation
How did the grandfather clause restrict the voting right of illiterate African Americans but not the voting right of illiterate whites?
Favored Whites
Why was the process of rebuilding the south called Radical Reconstruction?
Because Radical Republicans were involved
What was the first duty of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Emergency Relief to people displaced by the war
Which of the following statements is true about public schools in the South?
They didn’t have schools before the war
Which of the following was not an example of how the Freedmen’s Bureau helped in the South after the war?
DID: Jobs, Resolved disputes, Set up courts
