Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the south after war
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln forgiving
Republican harsh
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency to help A-As make a transition 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
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Full cite ship if born in USA
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave A-A right to vote
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in states general assembly,state senate, and Represntatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved to the south
What did the name scalawags mean?
Name for white southerners who helped the union
What was the largest terrorist group in America against African-American rights?
Kkk
What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes’ victory in the Election of 1876?
More electoral votes and less popular vote
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
Keep A-A on voting
What is segregation?
Separating races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Required whites and A-A to be separated in public places
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Legal as long as it is equal and separated
What was an exoduster?
A-As leaving the South
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
