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.
Lincolns 10 percent plan is to forgive the south
Radical republicans wanted a harsher readmission process
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
An agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater
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 Jonson
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 even African Americans
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African American men the right to vote in 1870
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
They served in the states general assembly , state senate and representatives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses s grant
Who were carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved to the south during reconstruction to find wealth by bringing industry to the region
What did the name scalawags mean?
Used by confederates describing 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?
Has more popular votes and less electoral votes
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To keep African Americans from voting
What is segregation?
Separate of the races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required African Americans and whites to be separated in south
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Was legal as long as was separate and 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
