Recon

Question 0

What did Congress do in response to the arrival of the newly elected Southern legislatures?

Answer 0

68 confederate leaders were pardoned and allowed to have seats In congress.

Question 1

Why did African Americans feel betrayed in 1865?

Answer 1

The government allowed the confederate states to rejoin the union

Question 2

2. What was the Freedman’s Bureau and how did it hope to help newly freed African Americans?

Answer 2

A government agency that assisted poor whites and slaves. It provided food, clothing, hospitals, etc.…

Question 3

3. Considering the purpose and effect of the Black Codes – what can you conclude about the right to carry weapons, serve on juries, testify in court, marry whom you choose, travel freely?

Answer 3

People valued these rights, during that time.

Question 4

4. What did the Black Codes indicate to the North?

Answer 4

The south had not given up the idea of slavery.

Question 5

5. What was the main goal of Radical Republicans (RR) after the Civil War?

Answer 5

Maintain political power

Question 6

6. Why did the RR introduce the 15th Amendment?

Answer 6

To enforce voting rights for African Americans à maintain political power.

Question 7

• Northerner who moved south after the war = took advantage of the destroyed areas and poverty for profit

Answer 7

Carpetbaggers

Question 8

b. - white southerners who joined the Republican party

Answer 8

Scalawags

Question 9

• a farming system where landowners divide their land and give each worker land, seeds, and tools. The worker would give a share of his crops to the landowner.

Answer 9

Sharecropping

Question 10

• a farming system where workers rent land and keep all of their harvest

Answer 10

d. Tenant Farming

Question 11

8. Why did Freedmen want “40 Acres and a Mule”? Did they get it? Why or why not?

Answer 11

Were promised 40 acres and a mule if they helped the union during the civil war. Did not receive land. Land given = swampy= cant farm.

Question 12

9. What was the ultimate goal of the Ku Klux Klan? What method did they use to achieve this goal?

Answer 12

Restore white supremacy by preventing African Americans from exercising their political rights.

Question 13

10. What groups did the KKK target?

Answer 13

Blacks, the white helping the blacks, and the Republican leaders.

Question 14

11. The assassination of NC Senator John Stephens was the result of the KKK’s attempt to accomplish what end?

Answer 14

Reconstruction and get the Republicans out of power.

Question 15

12. Why did many former slaves choose to not vote?

Answer 15

The democrats and KKK would perform terroristic acts at the voting polls.

Question 16

. What did the Enforcement Acts aim to stop?

Answer 16

Aimed to stop Klan violence.

Question 17

List 2 things the Enforcement Acts did to achieve this goal.

Answer 17

Allowed federal supervision during southern elections and federal troops in areas with high Klan activity.

Question 18

What did the Supreme Court determine about the Enforcement Acts in 1882?

Answer 18

Supreme court determined it was unconstitutional.

Question 19

14. Why was there a reduction in KKK violence?.

Answer 19

White supremacy had been restored

Question 20

undermined the 14th and 15th Amendments.

Answer 20

Slaughterhouse
Cruikshank
U.S v Reese

Question 21

decided that the 14th amendment only protects the rights people had because they were a citizen. Civil rights were obtained though citizenship in a state

Answer 21

Slaughterhouse Case:

Question 22

: decided that the 14th amendment did not did not give the federal government the power to punish whites who oppressed blacks.

Answer 22

Cruikshank

Question 23

: decided that the 15th amendment did not give anyone the right to suffrage (voting), but states cannot deny suffrage.

Answer 23

c. U.S v Reese

Question 24

16. What event marks the official end of Reconstruction?

Answer 24

Compromise of 1877

Question 25

Who were the 2 candidates in the 1876 Presidential Election?

Answer 25

Tilden (democrat) & Hayes (Republican

Question 26

Which candidate won the popular vote?

Answer 26

tilden

Question 27

Explain the result of the electoral vote.

Answer 27

Tilden had fallen one vote short of the electoral votes needed to win à commission decided the winner

Question 28

18. What was the decision of the Congressional Commission?

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Answer 28

Hayes wins election

Question 29

19. Southern Democrats accepted Hayes as the President, but demanded what in return? Be sure to include all of the demands made. This compromise is referred to as ________.

Answer 29

Compromise of 1877
Democrats demanded the withdrawal of federal troops in Louisiana and S. Carolina, federal money to rebuild infrastructure, and for Hayes to appoint a southerner is his cabinet.

Question 30

After the Presidential election of 1876, Democrats had achieved that long-desired goal? Explain what this goal provided to southern state governments. What actions did southern state governments take as a result?

Answer 30

Goal = Home rule. Goal allowed the state governments to run without federal intervention à passed laws that restricted the rights of African Americans, ended social programs, slashed taxes, and closed public schools.

Question 31

21. What three mistakes did Radical Republicans make in their attempts to help former slaves?

Answer 31

a. Assumed that certain civil rights would allow them to protect themselves through Gov. participation.
b. The government did not provide them land to become economically independent
c. The republicans failed to realize the extent of racism in the south.