Lessons 9, 10, & 11

Question 1

What was the main goal of Reconstruction?

Answer 1

To readmit the former confederate states back into the union after the civil war

Question 2

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? What did she do and what impact did it have?

Answer 2

She wrote uncle toms cabin which highlighted the cruelty of slavery, further dividing the north and south

Question 3

What is an abolitionist

Answer 3

A person who wants to abolish slavery

Question 4

What is popular sovereignty and where was it practiced

Answer 4

Where the people living in a newly organized territory had the right vote on whether or not to allow slavery in the territory

Question 5

What are the parts of the compromise of 1850

Answer 5

California enters as a free state
Ends slave trade in DC
Opened New Mexico and Utah territories to slavery
Enacts fugitive slave law

Question 6

What was John brown for

Answer 6

Against slavery

Question 7

What event led to southern states to secede form the union

Answer 7

Lincoln’s election

Question 8

What is the beginning, turning point, and ending or the civil war

Answer 8

Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Appomattox courthouse

Question 9

What is total war? Who carried out total war toward the war’s end

Answer 9

Destroying the enemy and anything do use to the enemy.
The north

Question 10

What was the anaconda plan

Answer 10

Civil War strategy devised by President Abraham Lincoln and general winfield scott by which Union forces would establish a naval blockade of Southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River in order to squeeze in on the South from the East and West and defeat them.

Question 11

Why was the emancipation proclamation needed and what was the strategy behind it

Answer 11

To rally the American troops

Question 12

What are the similarities and differences between Lincoln’s plan and the wade davis bill

Answer 12

Similar: wanted states to declare slavery illegal and swear loyalty to the us
Differences: Lincoln’s plan was forgiving whilst wade davis bill was very harsh

Question 13

What problems did the south face following the the civil war

Answer 13

Infrastructure completely destroyed
Starvation
Worthless currency
Bankruptcy
No workforce
Emotionally destroyed

Question 14

What impact did Lincoln’s assassination have on the feelings between the north and the south? Who assassinated Lincoln

Answer 14

The north blamed the south for his death.
John Wilkes booth

Question 15

What are the 13, 14, and 15th amendments

Answer 15

13: banned slavery
14: granted citizenship to all native born in the us
15: right to vote for all African American men

Question 16

What is the freedman’s bureau

Answer 16

Federal agency established in 1865 to help and protect freed slaves

Question 17

What were black codes passed

Answer 17

Restricted freedoms of freed slaves in 1865 to 1866

Question 18

What did Thaddeus Steven’s and Charles sumner have in common

Answer 18

Both led radical republican

Question 19

What were the reconstruction acts

Answer 19

South divided into 5 districts
New state constitutions drafted
South must recognize the 14th
Black men are enfranchised

Question 20

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached
What are the steps in the impeachment process
What role does each of the two houses of congress have in the process

Answer 20

Tenure of office
House of reps needs 218/435 votes and senate needs 2/3.
Reps collect evidence and interview witnesses, and senate listens to testimony and analyzes evidence

Question 21

What is sharecropping

Answer 21

A system designed to benefit the property owner by keeping the sharecropper in constant debt

Question 22

Who were scalawags
Who were carpet baggers

Answer 22

Southern residents that collaborated with northern republicans
Northerners who moved to south during reconstruction to benefit from reconstruction projects

Question 23

What was the kkk
Who was the first grand wizard

Answer 23

A white supremacy group
To terrorize blacks and scalawags
First grand wizard was former confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest

Question 24

What was a redeemer and what was their intended goal

Answer 24

The southern wing democratic party’s goal was to regain political power and enforce white supremacy

Question 25

How did southern states limit the rights including voting rights of blacks

Answer 25

Literacy tests
Poll tax
Grandfather clause
Jim Crow laws

Question 26

What are the parts of the compromise of 1877 following the controversial election of 1876

Answer 26

Democrats recognize Hayes as 19th potus
Union troops removed from south
North finances infrastructure
Brought formal ending to reconstruction

Question 27

What was decided in please vs Ferguson

Answer 27

That blacks and whites were separate but equal = segregation

Question 28

What impact did building more schools and universities have for freed men

Answer 28

Allowed blacks to get an education