History Test

Question 1

Amnesty

Answer 1

Granting a pardon to a large group of people

Question 2

black codes

Answer 2

• Laws passed in south just after civil war
• controlling freedmen, enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers

Question 3

Poll tax

Answer 3

A tax of a fixed amount per person had to be paid before could vote. Goes against 15th ADM.

Question 4

Segregation

Answer 4

Seperation of a race,class,group

Question 5

Freedman

Answer 5

A man legally freed from slavery

Question 6

Carpetbagger

Answer 6

Name given to northeners who moved to south after Civil War and supported republicans

Question 7

Sharecropper

Answer 7

landless farmers who gave their landlords a LARGE portion of their crops as rent

Question 8

Scalawag

Answer 8

name given to Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction of the South

Question 9

Lincoln plan

Answer 9

• In 1863, President Lincoln granted amnesty to Southerners who took an oath of loyalty and accepted the Union’s slavery proclamations.
• However, certain individuals, like former Confederate officials, could not take the oath or be pardoned
• In 1865, Lincoln aimed for a moderate policy to reconcile the South with the Union.

Question 10

Johnson’s plan

Answer 10

Johnson’s restoration program pardoned former Confederate citizens who pledged loyalty to the Union and returned their property, excluding officers and officials.

Question 11

Radicals plan

Answer 11

• Radical Republicans in Congress resisted Lincoln’s plan to reconcile with the South
• They had three main goals: preventing Confederate leaders from returning to power, creating a powerful Republican Party in the South, and guaranteeing the right to vote for African Americans
• Many Radical Republicans were abolitionists and believed in political equality for all men.

Question 12

What was the literacy test?

Answer 12

Read in order 2 vote. Goes against 15th ADM.

Question 13

What was the poll tax?

Answer 13

A tax of a fixed amount per person had to be paid before could vote. Goes against 15th ADM.

Question 14

Explain the Jim Crow Laws

Answer 14

Laws for forced segregation

Question 15

Explain Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 15

Separate but equal

Question 16

How did Reconstruction end

Answer 16

• The rising power of the Democrats made enforcing Reconstruction more difficult
• At the same time, many Northerners became more concerned with their own economic problems than with conditions in the South.

Question 17

Who imposed the 5 military districts?

Answer 17

previous Union generals

Question 18

Which state was not under the military districts?

Answer 18

Tennessee

Question 19

Explain sharecropping and how it relates to cycle of poverty

Answer 19

Low crop prices and the inability of farmers to pay off their debts

Question 20

Explain the impeachment of Johnson

Answer 20

He was impeached in 1868 for dismissing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton without the approval of the Senate
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Question 21

What were some Republican reforms

Answer 21

• They repealed the black codes and made many more state offices elective
• They established state hospitals and rebuilt roads, railways, and bridges.
  also established a system of public schools.

Question 22

Explain the political groups in the south. Which political group did african americans join in the South? At the end Reconstruction which political party emerged in the South?

Answer 22

Political groups in the south =

Question 23

What were some the success and failures of reconstruction?

Answer 23

• reconstruction saw successes like the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which aided former slaves,
• and the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments, guaranteeing civil rights
• However, failures included persistent racial violence, the rise of Jim Crow laws, and insufficient economic support for newly freed African Americans.