Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding south and remitting into the union
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Radical republicans wanted a harsher readmission
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped AAs make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John 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?
Abolished slavery in 1865
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Full citizenship to anyone born in the u.s 1866
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave AA men the right to vote 1870
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in general assembly state senate and representatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners that brought industry into 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?
More electoral votes but less votes than. Tilden
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To keep AAs from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of all races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Required AAs and whites to be separated every place in the south
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Said it was legal
What was an exoduster?
AAs that left the south after the war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansa
Benjamin “pap” singleton
