history unit 11

Question 1

black codes

Answer 1

law that greatly limited the freedom of african Americans

Question 2

civil rights act of 1866

Answer 2

act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans, vetoed by president johnson

Question 3

fifteenth amendment

Answer 3

amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

Question 4

fourteenth amendment

Answer 4

amendment giving full rights to all people born or naturalized in the United states

Question 5

freedmen’s bureau

Answer 5

agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the south

Question 6

homestead act

Answer 6

land grant act passed that helped open the west to settlers, gave goverment-owned land to small farmers

Question 7

Jim Crow laws

Answer 7

a law that enforced segregation in the southern states

Question 8

ku Klux klan

Answer 8

a secret society created by white southerns in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining civil rights

Question 9

morrill act

Answer 9

land grant passed by federal government to give 17 million acres of federal land to the states required the states to sell the land and create colleges that focused on agriculture and engineering, example is Texas A&M

Question 10

plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 10

US supreme court case that esatablished the separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities

Question 11

poll taxes

Answer 11

tax to vote, designed to keep african americans from voting

Question 12

radical republicans

Answer 12

group in the Congress that wanted the federal government to force change in the south

Question 13

reconstruction

Answer 13

process or readmitting former conferate states to the union

Question 14

reconstruction acts

Answer 14

laws that put the southern states under US military control and required them to draft new constitutions unholding the fourteenth amendment

Question 15

ten percent plan

Answer 15

offered southerns amnesty, or official pardon, for illegal acts supporting the rebellion

Question 16

thirteen amendment

Answer 16

made slavery illegal throughout the united states

Question 17

wade davis bill

Answer 17

amnesty achieved through states banning slavery and a majority of the adult males had to take a loyalty oath

Question 18

describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment

Answer 18

the 13th amendment made slavery illegal throughout the untied states
the 14th amendment gave full rights
the 15th amendment the right to vote

Question 19

describe the struggles faced by African Americans in the south during reconstuction

Answer 19

1. segregation
   2.the kkk
2. poll taxes

Question 20

how did the US government encourage the settlement in the great plains

Answer 20

. homestead act
.morrill act