Chapter 4

Question 1

Carpetbaggers

Answer 1

People from the north who went to the south. It was what northerners were called. Northerners who tried to change things in the south. Anyone who was against their initial beliefs and sections were looked down upon.

Question 2

Confederate States of America

Answer 2

What the separate states had formed. They wanted slavery, and they wanted to protect their way of economy. They were the southern side of America.

Question 3

Defacto

Answer 3

Segregation in means by law

Question 4

Dejure

Answer 4

Segregation through legal means.

Question 5

Juneteenth

Answer 5

A day celebrated that marks the actual end of slavery.

Question 6

Mason-Dixon Line

Answer 6

Missouri compromise created the mason dixon line. It was the cultural boundary between the north and the south. It was named this line based off of the leaders of the surveying team.

Question 7

Minstrel Shows

Answer 7

The idea came from the jump Jim crow song. It made fun of African Americans in many ways. It became an overnight sensation and it started a whole new genre of plays and movies. Whites would dress up as blacks. Tried to dress up like goof caricatures.

Question 8

NAACP

Answer 8

(William Edward Burghardt)(1868-1963) an organization that tried to stop slavery.

Question 9

Pan-Africanism

Answer 9

The uniting of all those who were black. It was done to make it so that they could unite and end slavery and protect their civil rights as a whole.

Question 10

Reconstructions

Answer 10

The era in American history where an attempt to fix the south was begun. When the civil war ended the country was left scarred and devastated and the south was completely economically devastated.
Scalawags:

Question 11

Sharecropping

Answer 11

Giving them parts of your crops as a sort of rent
2/5 to ½ of the crop after the harvest
Tenant farming: You are paying rent to the person in some way shape or form
Rent
Modified Slavery: It was not better than slavery. The rent would continue to grow and you could not get out of slavery. People called it the new slavery since it was really no better.
No way to get ahead
Poor whites: Some what helped out with the blacks

Question 12

The 13th Amendment

Answer 12

What actually free’d the slaves

Question 13

The 14th Amendment

Answer 13

Gives rights of citizenships

Question 14

The 15th Amendment

Answer 14

Protects voting rights of all citizens no matter what color.

Question 15

The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 15

The Proclamation that was supposed to free the slaves in the south and in the south only. It did not work for the slaves in the north and it actually did not free any slaves at all.

Question 16

The Liberator

Answer 16

Written in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison. It was not a book it was like a paper.

Question 17

The North Star

Answer 17

In 1847 Frederick Douglass founded The North Star

Question 18

Uncle Tom

Answer 18

A character that would later on trigger stereotypical judgement for black people in a book called Uncle Tom’s cabin. He was a happy lazyish sort of man.

Question 19

40 Acres & a Mule

Answer 19

A movement made by genera sherman telling the slave owners to get up and leave. He gave them land and famring supplies.

Question 20

54th Massachusetts

Answer 20

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Question 21

Appomattox Court House

Answer 21

The place were The confederate general surrendered officially. The surrender was a very settling surrender.

Question 22

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 22

The biggest battle of the civil War.

Question 23

Black Codes

Answer 23

Laws to keep the african american epople down in the south. To keep them segregated. TO keep them, subservient under white people.

Question 24

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 24

Slave that wanted to be free when litterally taken to the state. he wanted to sue his master.

Question 25

Emancipation Proclamation why was it important?

Answer 25

Did not free the slaves. But if anything, it was supposed to free the southern slaves.

Question 26

Scalawags

Answer 26

People from the south that would become a republican. At that time it was used a traitorous

Question 27

Fort Sumter

Answer 27

The begining of the war. the south had attacked first.

Question 28

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 28

Said that if a slave had escaped and was found the person who found the slave is obligated to send the slave back to his or her owner.

Question 29

Gerrymandering

Answer 29

Voting restrictions set up by the government to make sure that black people did not have full civil rights. It was used against black people. This basically entailed a test that one would have to take in order to vote. The test would be impossible and the answers were given to white people.

Question 30

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 30

A ship that had been robbed by a man named john brown and several other slaves becuase these people wanted to revolt against the slave oweners.

Question 31

Jim Crow

Answer 31

was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.

Question 32

March to the Sea

Answer 32

60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people,” Sherman explained; as a result, they needed to “make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”

Question 33

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

Answer 33

He goes on a train and he is fairly white looking for a black guy. Another tubman sort of act.

Question 34

Reconstruction

Answer 34

Reunite the country the war is over everyone is pissed but you have to reuinte the country including the 11 former states that were under the confederacy. 4 million of the slaves and more to come soon who were slaves.

Question 35

Separate but Equal

Answer 35

Black people would be segreated from the people. THey would be given different things but these thigns were border line equal. Different water, different seating, etc.

Question 36

Souls of Black Folk

Answer 36

He wrote a book. Describes what it feels like to be a black person in America. It covered the everyday racism mentally and physically.

Question 37

Special Field Orders #15

Answer 37

March to the Sea.

Question 38

The compromise of 1877

Answer 38

The end of the reconstruction era. The north agreed to draw back from the south.

Question 39

The Freedmen’s Breau

Answer 39

People trying to help the slaves. it was a part of the government that tried to help the slaves get on their feet.

Question 40

The Ku Klux Klan

Answer 40

an organization made to stop African Americans from voting. They terrorized people and even killed people.

Question 41

The Mississippi Plan 1880

Answer 41

A set of measures to end African Americans Rights

Question 42

The panic of 1873

Answer 42

People did not have enough money so people stopped buying things.

Question 43

Tuskegee Insitute

Answer 43

A place for AA college people. Booker T washington became the head of this institution. It was amde so that AA could learn about agriculture and farming since this was all that they would ever really work in.

Question 44

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 44

Book made by Harriet Beecher. She was white and inexpirienced and yet she wrote a book about what it was like to be a slave.

Question 45

Up From Slavery

Answer 45

A book made by Booker T Washington. It is not read very often because it is very old. It became very popular. Numerous high schools were named after him. The book talks about his philosophy.