Chapter 18 Flashcards
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln’s plan was forgiving to the South while the Republican plan was harsher.
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former Confederate States and readmitting them to the Union.
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
An agency set up by Lincoln and Congress that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom.
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theater and died in the Petersen House
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Petersen House
Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished Slavery (1865)
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the United States including African Americans (1866)
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote. (1870)
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in the state’s General Assembly as Senators and Representatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to find wealth by bringing industry to the region.
What did the name scalawags mean?
Name used by former Confederates to describe some white Southerners that were pro-Union
What was the largest terrorist group in America that was against African-American rights?
The Ku Klux Klan or the KKK.
What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes’ victory in the Election of 1876?
He won the electoral votes, but not the popular vote
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To prevent African Americans from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of the races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required African Americans and Whites to be separated in almost every public place where they might come in contact with one another
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
As long it was separate but equal
What was an exoduster?
African Americans that left the South after The Civil War.
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin ‘Pap’ Singleton
