Reconstruction

Question 1

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

John Wilkes booth
Fords theatre in Washington, D.C.
April 14 1865

Question 2

Lincoln’s 10% plan

Answer 2

Called for only small percentages of a states population to swear loyalty to be readmitted. Amnesty to confederate officials and officers were granted.

Question 3

Johnson’s plan

Answer 3

The majority of the southerners to swear loyalty to be readmitted as a state. Also, it called for the ratification of the 13 amendment and not the 14 and 15 amendments.

Question 4

Southern democrat plan

Answer 4

Called for a return to the old ways ( slavery and etc ). Also the 14 and the 15 amendment should not be ratified ( made into law)

Question 5

Radical Republican plan

Answer 5

Wanted to punish the south. Banned all confederate generals and officials from political office and required ratifying ( making into a law) the 14 and 15 amendments

Question 6

Amnesty

Answer 6

When a president grants pardons to a large group of people

Question 7

Pardon

Answer 7

When a judge or president allows a person to not be punished

Question 8

Freedmans bureau

Answer 8

An organization designs by congress to help newly freed slaves become normal citizens. They were given food money and schools for education

Question 9

Carpetbagger

Answer 9

A northerner who moved south to make money off of the southern people. Called a carpetbagger because the suitcase that they carried their possessions in were many times made out of plaid or carpet material.

Question 10

Scalawag

Answer 10

A southerner who supported northern ideas and wanted reconstruction occur. Were treated just like as bad as African Americans

Question 11

Poll tax

Answer 11

Required to vote, must be paid every year to vote, and hurts poor African Americans who cannot afford to pay the tax. Keeps them from voting so only white people will stay in office.

Question 12

Lynch

Answer 12

Tho hang a person without a trial. Was used on mainly African Americans by southerners ( particularly the Ku Klux Klan) for the purpose of fear.
Jim Crow - insult to blacks

Question 13

Jim Crow laws

Answer 13

Discrimination laws against African Americans. The name was meant to be insulting blacks

Question 14

Black codes

Answer 14

Local, unwritten discriminatory laws against blacks. Not allowed to carry guns, gather ip in groups, and etc.

Question 15

Civil rights act of 1875

Answer 15

Made it a crime for any individual to deny someone person equal use of public places. Prohibited discrimination in jury section

Question 16

Grandfather clause

Answer 16

If a member of a family was able to vote before 1867, these people do not have to take the literacy test created in order to vote. Since no African American was allowed to vote before this date, all African Americans were required to take this test. This allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote.

Question 17

Literacy test

Answer 17

Test given to African Americans in the south to see whether they can vote. Testa made impossible so African Americans could not vote.

Question 18

13 amendment

Answer 18

Slavery is abolished in the United States

Question 19

14 amendment

Answer 19

All men are created equal under the law. All men have equal rights regardless of race or ethnicity.

Question 20

15 amendment

Answer 20

All men are allowed to vote, regardless of race or ethnicity.

Question 21

President Andrew Johnson

Answer 21

17 president
Hated aristocrats but did not want equality between blacks and whites.
He believed that the power is for reconstruction should be in control by the president.
His firsts as president are to have a veto to be overridden and to be impeached by congress ( found not guilty by the senate by one vote).

Question 22

Ku klux klan

Answer 22

Founded by Nathaniel Bedford forest
Created to stop radical reconstruction, return the south to the old ways, and precedent freed blacks from voting or holding political office.

Question 23

Ulysses s grant

Answer 23

18 president of the United States
Created the completed transcontinental railroad, secret service, and stopped the early parts of the Ku klux klan.
Appointed many friends to cabinet positions who ended up getting caught for money scandals, making grant look bad

Question 24

Us vs Reese

Answer 24

It said that literacy tests and poll tax in the case of voting does not violate civil rights.

Question 25

Us vs Cruikshank

Answer 25

It said that the states must punish those people who violate the 14 amendment

Question 26

Bradwell vs Illinois

Answer 26

Myra bradwell prohibited in Illinois from being a lawyer because she was a woman

Question 27

Slaughterhouse cases

Answer 27

Ramification estate can control the enforcement of the civil rights act of 1875, not the federal government

Question 28

Credit Mobilier Scandal

Answer 28

Congressman Oaks Ames distributing shares of stock in the Pacific part of the transcontinental railroad for cash bribes

Question 29

Indian ring scandal

Answer 29

William Belknap

Sells food and supplies to Native American reservations back to other people for profit

Question 30

Whiskey ring scandal

Answer 30

Secretary Babcock was found among Chicago politicians receiving kickbacks on whiskey taxes

Question 31

Northern support for reconstruction declined or panic of 1873

Answer 31

Increase creation of greenbacks decreases the worth of the dollar cost loss in faith in the economy. Create a six-year depression in the United States

Concern over Westford expansion Indian wars cost he would be less concerned with reconstruction

People were tired of dealing with the process of rebuilding the south

Question 32

Election of 1876

Answer 32

Ruford B Hayes what is the Republican nominee

Election turned into a tie on the electoral college

Question 33

Compromise of 1877 second corrupt bargain

Answer 33

Ruford behaves will become president
federal troops are pulled from the south
Hayes must appoint a democrat to his cabinet
government law provide land grants for railroads linking the south in the west
southern government will respect the rights of African-Americans