Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former confederate states and reuniting them to the union
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincolns 10 percent plan forgiving the south
Radical republicans a harsher readmission process
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater in Washington
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?
Abolishes slavery
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Citizenship to anyone born in the United States including African Americans
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African Americans males the rights to vote
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in the states general assembly state senate
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?
Named used by former confederated 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?
More electoral votes but less popular votes
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To keep African American from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place in south
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Was legal as long as it was separated and equal
What was an exoduster?
African Americans who left the south after the war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin singleton
