Chapter 16 Test (Stump)

Question 1

What are the main differences between Lincoln’s “ten present plan” and the “wade-Davis bill?”

Answer 1

Lincoln’s Plan: 10% of state voters, soft power, easy for southern states to rejoin.
Wade-Davis Plan: 50%of state voters, no voting rights, strict

Question 2

1) what was a “feedman?”
2) what two purposes did the “freedmen;s bureau” serve?

Answer 2

1) former slaves that are now free
2)defend freedom of former slaves, set up school

Question 3

1) Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
2) What was Lincoln doing?
3) How many days after the war ended did this take place?
4) What happened to the criminals involved?

Answer 3

1) John Wikes booth
2)attending a play
3) 5 days
4) captured and killed in a barn

Question 4

1) what did the 13th amendment do?
2) what “laws” did Radical republicans fear would still develop in the South?
3) what were the two main goals of radical republicans?

Answer 4

1) abolish slavery
2) black codes
3) prevent formal confederates from gaining control and protect the freedmen and guarantee the right to vote

Question 5

1) What did the 14th amendment do?
2) How did the reconstruction act of 1867 go even further to make sure the amendment was forced?

Answer 5

1) To make sure that all people were born or naturalized in the US citizens are guaranteed equal protection of the laws?
2) In the state constitution ratify the 14th amendment to allow Arifcan Americans to vote

Question 6

1) what jobs and advancements were African-Americans gaining under reconstruction?
2) what two men even became senators in the u.s. congress?

Answer 6

1) politics
2) Hiram revels and Blanche Bruce

Question 7

1) what is a carpetbagger?
2) what is a scalawag?

Answer 7

1) northern whites who came to work in the south
2) southern whites who had opposed secession

Question 8

What secret society terrorist group formed during reconstruction to keep African-Americans from voting?

Answer 8

Ju Klux Klan

Question 9

What are reasons why support for a week at reconstruction began to decline by the 1870s?

Answer 9

President Grants administration included corrupt poorly chosen individuals
Americans began to forget about the war and focused on thirst own lives

Question 10

1) who won the election of 1876?
2) why were the results controversial?
3) What did the new president said to do with the federal troops informal confederate states?

Answer 10

1) Rutherford B. Hayes
2) it was unfair
3) end reconstruction

Question 11

1) After President Johnson was almost impeached who became president in the election of 1868?
2) What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 11

1) General Ulysses s. Grant
2) allow African-Americans to vote

Question 12

Briefly describe each common law

Poll tax:
Literacy tests:
Grandfather clause:

Answer 12

Poll tax: pay money to vote
Literacy tests: be able to write and read
Grandfather clause: if your grandfather voted you could vote

Question 13

1) what is segregation
2) what nickname did the segregation laws become known as

Answer 13

1) legal separation of groups
2) Jim Crow laws

Question 14

1) What supreme court case in 1896 Allowed the segregation laws to become legal?
2) What phrase became popular as a reason why Segregation was acceptable?
3) The laws were allowed until the civil rights era started in what decade

Answer 14

1) plessey vs Ferguson
2) separate but equal
3) 1950s

Question 15

1) what is a sharecropper
2) why would this keep a person in a cycle of poverty

Answer 15

1) a person who rent a plot of land and farms it in exchange for a share of the crops
2) sold crops, owned more than earned, shared crops

Question 16

What happened to the educated in school African-American to have been successful under reconstruction?

Answer 16

They slowly with northern cities or isolated himself and small segregated communities in the south

Question 17

Describe three specific ways that industrial growth played a role in developing a new south?

Answer 17

Cotton tobacco and textile