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 plan was to forgive the south and the republicans wanted a harsher readmission process
What was the Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that helped African American make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater in Washington DC
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes both
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Petersen 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 African Americans in 1866
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African Americans 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
Who won the Election of 1868
Ulysses s grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerns whom moved to the south during reconstruction to find wealth by bringing industry to the region
What did the name scalawags mean?
Former confederates to describe some white southerners that were pro 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 less popular votes
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
Keep African Americans from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Requires aa and whites to be separated in almost every public place in the south
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Segregation was legal as long as it was separate and equal
What was an exoduster?
Aa that left the south after war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin pap singleton
