Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former confederate states and readmitting them to the union
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln’s 10 percent- forgiving on the south
Radical Republican- wanted a harsher readmission process
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans make transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Peterson House
Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery in 1865
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Gain full citizenship to anyone born in the US including A-A’s in 1865
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African Americans the right to vote
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
State senate and representatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners that moved to the south 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
What was the largest terrorist group in America against African-American rights?
Ku Klux Klan
What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes’ victory in the Election of 1876?
He got more electoral votes but not the most popular votes
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To keep African Americans from voting
What is segregation?
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required whites and African Americans to be separated in almost every public place
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Segregation was legal as long as it was separate and equal
What was an exoduster?
African American that left the south after the war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “Pop” Singleton
