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 Plan was forgiving on the south and stated 10% of state voters must pledge loyalty to the Union, the Radical Republicans wanted a harsher readmission.
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
An 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?
Petersen House
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 U.S. including slaves.
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave A-A men the right to vote.
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Serve 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 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 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 won with 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 require A-A’s and Whites to be separated in almost every public place in the south.
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Legal as long as A-A’s and Whites were treated separately and equally.
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
