Chapter 18 Flashcards
What is Reconstruction?
Time after civil war, bringing south back to Union, and reconstructing it
Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincolns forgiving on south, Radical tough
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Helped Africans get jobs and education
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 Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Freed all slaves
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in US
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave voting rights to A-As
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served in assembly
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
People who moved to south to promote industry
What did the name scalawags mean?
Anyone who was a Southerner and was 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 didn’t have popular vote
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
Keep A-As from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of Blacks and Whites
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that kept Whites and Coloreds separated
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Said that it was legal as long as it was Equal
What was an exoduster?
Someone who left south after war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin Pap Singleton
