Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former Confederate states and readmitting them into the Union
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln’s plan was forgiving of the South while the Radical Republican’s plan was harsh to the South
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
An agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theater, Washington D.C.
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
The 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?
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
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?
Served 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 build the industry of the South
What did the name scalawags mean?
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 had the majority of electoral votes but not the popular vote or they were a tie.
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 in the South
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
It was legal as long as it was separate but equal
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
