Module 19 Lessons 1-3 Workbook Questions Flashcards
What was the purpose of Reconstruction?
To reunite the nation and rebuild the southern states.
What part of the Constitution granted freedom to all slaves?
The Thirteenth Amendment
Why would Southerns oppose the education of African Americans?
They didn’t want African Americans to learn
Why did Congress refuse to accept the southern states back into the Union?
Many of the elected representatives of the “new” states had been Confederate leaders. Clearly there were still problems to be solved.
What were black codes?
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Who believed President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan was a failure?
Radical Republicans
Was President John against or for the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Why was President Johnson impeached? And who impeached him?
When President Johnson broke the law by firing his secretary of war, CONGRESS reacted by impeaching the president.
Who was President Johnsons secretary of war that he fired?
Edwin Stanton.
Which Americans gained the right to vote as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African Americans
Who was the first African American senator?
Hiram Revels
Who were the groups of people that were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan?
-African Americans
-Republicans
-Public Officials
Why did southern Republicans lose power during the 1870s?
Republicans lost power because of Ulysses S. Grant’s problem-plagued presidency and the Panic of 1873
How was the economy of the “Old South” different from the economy of the “New South”?
The “Old South” depended on Cotton for profits, but the “New South” used industry to strength the economy after the cotton industry. Which was going up and down.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that enforced segregation
