Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the South and bringing them back into the Union
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln wanted to forgive the South. The radical republicans wanted a harsher readmission process
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s theater
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 Jonhson
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 her eUS including African Americans
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?
Served in the state’s 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?
White Southerns that were pro-Union
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 had more electoral votes but less 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?
Separation of the races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required African Americans and Whites to be separated in almost every public place
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
It was legal
What was an exoduster?
African Americans that left the South after the war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
