Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the confederate states
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln’s 10 Percent plan- forgiving the south
Radical Republicans- wanted a harder re admission process
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped blacks make the transaction to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater in Washington, D.C. On April 14 1865
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 Jackson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery in 1865
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US including black sin 1866
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave black men the right to vote in 1870
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in the states 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 to the region
What did the name scalawags mean?
Name used by former confederates to describe some white southerners that 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 didn’t win the popular vote
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
Added as requirements for voting in many southern states to keep blacks from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of the races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required blacks and whites to be separated in nearly every public place
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
It was ok as long as they were separate and equal
What was an exoduster?
Blacks that left the south after the war.
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “pap” singleton
