Reconstruction

Question 1

Reconstruction Time Period

Answer 1

The period following the Civil War during which the US gov’t work to reunite the nation and to rebuild the Southern States.

Question 2

The Reconstruction Amendments

Answer 2

These are additions or changes to the US Constitution

Question 3

13 Amendment

Answer 3

Outlaws Slavery in US (Abolishes Slavery)

Question 4

14th Amendment

Answer 4

Gives Civil Rights and citizenship to all African Americans in US (Become citizens/ Equal Rights)

Question 5

15th Amendment

Answer 5

Gives voting rights to all black men over the age of 21 in the USA (Can vote)

Question 6

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 6

A Law that enforced segregation in the Southern States.

Question 7

Segregation

Answer 7

The forced separation of people of different races in public places

Question 8

Black Codes

Answer 8

Laws passed in the Southern States during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans. (Restrictions against African Americans in the US)

Question 9

Poll Tax

Answer 9

A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote

Question 10

Literacy Tests

Answer 10

Reading and writing exams given in order to cast a vote in the South (Backfires because many white southerners are illiterate)

Question 11

Grandfather Clause

Answer 11

If your grandfather can vote, you can vote, but if your grandfather could not, you can not… this is the answer to the South’s desire to keep Blacks out of the voting class.

Question 12

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 12

An agency established by congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South. It helped African Americans obtain their rights (free service).

Question 13

Discrimination

Answer 13

Unjust and prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things especially on the grounds of race, age and, or sex. (A.K.A- The negative treatment of others because they are different.)

Question 14

KKK

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan: a secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.

Question 15

Radical Republicans of Reconstruction

Answer 15

Members of congress who felt that Southern States needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the union.

Question 16

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 16

a railroad system that crossed the continental United States; Construction began in 1863.

Question 17

Military 5 Zones

Answer 17

Under the Military Reconstruction Act the South would split into 5 military zones controlled by former Union Generals during Reconstruction. This is martial law and was going to be used to make sure the South followed the various rules of Reconstruction.

Question 18

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 18

U.S Supreme Court case that established the “Separate but Equal” doctrine for public facilities. (Equal is not defined by constitution) publicly separated by race.

Question 19

“Separate but Equal”

Answer 19

Legalizes Jim Crow Laws and the Segregation of people by races.

Question 20

17th president

Answer 20

Andrew Johnson

Question 21

18th President

Answer 21

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 22

19th President

Answer 22

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 23

Lincoln’s 10% plan

Answer 23

-Lincolns plan
-Forgive the South and forget the last four bloody years ever happened
-Pardon all Confederates (Generals,soldiers,leaders)
10 % of the voting male population swear oath of loyalty to USA
-Keep Southern Lifestyle
-Let land owners keep their land but NOT their slaves
-Easy on the south

Question 24

Carpetbaggers

Answer 24

Went to the South and stole stuff from the people

Question 25

Scalawags

Answer 25

People white and black that went against the South after Lincolns proclamation.

Question 26

Sharecropping

Answer 26

When a former slave goes back to their master and works on their land and in return gets half of the money they produce.

Question 27

Radical Republican Plan

Answer 27

-Republicans from Congress
-Change Southern Society
-Secure Civil Rights for Blacks
-Destroy Planter class
-Redistribute the land
Develop Industry
-Take South and break it into 5 military districts run by former Union Soldiers
-Build factories,towns, railroads
-Ratify Reconstruction Amendments
-Freedmen’s Bureau
-Developed West in the same way
- Harsh on South

Question 28

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 28

-50% swear oath by male voters to USA
-Civil Rights to blacks but NO voting rights
-It was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and not passed
-HARSHEST ON THE SOUTH

Question 29

Johnson’s plan

Answer 29

-New President after Lincoln is killed
-Before Lincolns death, Johnson promised to punish the South and be strict with the Reconstruction plan but when he becomes President, Johnson backs out of all his ideas and does nothing of what he said
-Impeached but wins by one vote to stay as president however, no one listens to him ever again
- Major loser in gov’t eyes

Question 30

Mississippi Vagrant Act (1865)

Answer 30

Any Negroes, or mulattoes over the age of eighteen years, found with no job or assembling themselves together with a different race should be fined.
In case any freedmen fail after fives days from their fine, it will be the duty of the sheriff to hire out the freedmen.

Question 31

Louisiana Farm Labor Act (1865)

Answer 31

Bad work is not allowed
If anyone fails to listen to orders, neglect of duty, and leaving their home without permission.
Anyone who is disobedient, impudence, swearing or indecent language, fighting with the employer will be fined. Any difficulties with the workers and the employers it will be settled by the employers.

Question 32

Florida Act on Public Places

Answer 32

If a negro goes into any religious or other white public places, they shall be guilty of misdemeanor, they will be sentenced to go stand in the pillory for an hour or they will be whipped.

Question 33

Mississippi Apprentice Law

Answer 33

Any negros under the age of 18 whose parents have no means or the refused to support their kids the former owner will have the preference for whom will be their family.