Chapter 18 Flashcards
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
10 Percent Plan: Very forgiving on the South
Radical Republicans: Wanted a harsher readmission process
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former Confederate states and readmitting them to the Union
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C.
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Peterson House across from the theater
Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
It abolished slavery
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
They served in the state’s general assembly, state Senate and Representatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners that moved to the South during Reconstruction to find wealth by bringing industry
What did the name scalawags mean?
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?
Ku Klux Klan
What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes’ victory in the Election of 1876?
He won with more electoral votes but not popular
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To keep African Americans from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of the races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Required A-As and whites to be separated in almost every public place
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
It was legal as long as it was separate AND equal
What was an exoduster?
African Americans that left the south after the law
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
