Period 5 Ch 15

Question 1

Radical Republicans

Answer 1

Sought political and civil rights for emancipated African Americans and punishment of the South.

Question 2

Emancipation

Answer 2

to free from restraint, control, or the power of another. Unlike Radical Republicans, Lincoln thought South should be restored to the Union quickly and leniently since he offered full pardons to anyone taking a loyalty oath to the Union and accepting emancipation

Question 3

The Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 3

It abolished slavery because under the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery was still legal in many places and it won ratification because 8 southern states reconstructed under Lincoln’s plan approved its adoption.

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

He believed in state’s rights and rejected Radical ideas about a strong federal government and gave amnesty to most former Confederates who took loyalty oath and accepted emancipation.

Question 5

Reconstruction

Answer 5

the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.

Question 6

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 6

provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. He also extended support to help establish the schools, and other institutions including benevolent societies and newspapers.

Question 7

Black Codes

Answer 7

It represented an effort to control black farm labor and relegate blacks to a subordinate position.

Question 8

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 8

Created for this purpose, as well as to undermine the Republican party in the South and many African American were killed during riots in Memphis and New Orleans

Question 9

Sharecropping

Answer 9

An agricultural system that emerged after the Civil War in which black and white farmers rented land and residences from a plantation owner in exchange for giving him a certain “share” of each year’s crop.

Question 10

Emancipation

Answer 10

Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States

Question 11

Suffrage

Answer 11

The right to vote in Political elections. A vote is given in favor of a proposed measure or candidate. The leaders objected to the inclusion of the word malein connection with voting. This was because of the topic of blacks voting.

Question 12

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 12

The constitutional amendment extended civil rights to freedmen and prohibited states from taking away such rights without due process. This was part of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 when they ratified this amendment and approved black suffrage.

Question 13

Impeachment

Answer 13

Johnson faced impeachment because he challenged Congress over the Tenture of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the House of Representatives voted to impeach him and at trial in the Senate, removed only one vote short of the required two-thirds majority.

Question 14

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 14

Prohibited denying the right to vote on basis of the race since many northern states had not yet enfranchised African Americans, as all reconstructed southern states were required to do.

Question 15

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Answer 15

It was the last congressional Reconstruction measure since it prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection, transportation, and public facilities (except in schools, churches, and cemeteries).

Question 16

Black Reconstruction

Answer 16

Able to vote, blacks affiliated with the Republican party because they participated in constitutional conventions and were elected to office and officeholders generally had some education, had free before Civil War and had some prior experience in public service.

Question 17

Carpetbaggers

Answer 17

We’re one the source of white support for the Republican party because northerners, usually well educated, middle class, and (for men) had served in the army and often occupied key potential leadership positions.

Question 18

Scalawags

Answer 18

Reconstruction governments tried to prohibit discrimination and protect civil rights because these attempts usually collapsed since opposition by scalawags.

Question 19

The Compromise of 1877

Answer 19

The Compromise of 1877 gave election to Hayes because Southern Democrats agreed to his election if all federal involvement in southern affairs ceased