Reconstruction

Question 1

stages of Johnson trying to veto legislation December 1865

Answer 1

• Bill gets called to congress to try and extend civil rights of black Americans
• president Johnson tried to veto the bill meaning it cant be debated
• congress debated bill; anyways allowing 14th and 15th amendment to pass.

Question 2

Why did the Republican Congress refuse to recognize the new state governments in the South?

Answer 2

they were made up of congress elites

Question 3

when was the 14th amendment

Answer 3

1866

Question 4

14th Amendment

Answer 4

enforced 1866 civil rights act
gave citzenship to those born in the us minus natives
meant to show that all people including former slaves should have equal rights.

Question 5

14th Amendment

Answer 5

enforced 1866 civil rights act
gave citzenship to those born in the us minus natives
meant to show that all people including former slaves should have equal rights.

Question 6

contents of 14th amendment

Answer 6

banned many old confederates from holding office
stated that the federal gov could get involved in state matters is the civil rights of the people
stated black codes were illegal.

Question 7

Passing of the 14th ammenedment

Answer 7

• to be passed needed a 74% of approval vote from congress
• made it hard due to the south being too racist to let the bill pass
• resutled in a lot of riots and growth of the kkk
• resutled in the Military Act being passed.

Question 8

what year did the mitirary reconstruction act pass

Answer 8

1867

Question 9

what did the military reconstruction act state

Answer 9

• no southern state had a legal gov
• no confederate politians were permitted in congress without approval from union
  -southern states only allowed back in if they had created new consitutions which provided greater freedoms for black americans

Question 10

when was the 15th amendment

Answer 10

1870

Question 11

How many black americans registered to vote after the civil war

Answer 11

700,000

Question 12

1869-1971

Answer 12

• black americans became senators and more involved in the legal process
• able to become sherrfis
• however there were still violence, one senator assisanted and shot 31 times by a white mob.

Question 13

In what year did Ulysses Grant become President?

Answer 13

1688

Question 14

In what year did Ulysses Grant become President?

Answer 14

1688

Question 15

in what years did the KKK rapidly grow?

Answer 15

1868- 1867

Question 16

by 1867 how much did the KKK grow

Answer 16

half a million across the south and 40,00 in tennasee

Question 16

by 1867 how much did the KKK grow

Answer 16

half a million across the south and 40,00 in tennasee

Question 17

what was one of the aims of the KKK

Answer 17

end eduacation of black americans due to fearing education will give them more political power
- They destroyed 25 schools and killed 50 African American teachers in Mississippi after the state passed a new public school law in 1870.

Question 18

How many lynchings took place in 1900

Answer 18

115

Question 19

when was the force acts

Answer 19

1870

Question 20

What rights of black people were protected by the Force Acts of 1870?

Answer 20

• right to serve on juries
• right to vote
• right to hold government positions

Question 21

what did the force act allow the president to have

Answer 21

militry power over states

Question 22

what were white leauges

Answer 22

alternative white supremacist groups were established.

Question 23

what did they do

Answer 23

White Leagues were responsible for the violence in the Colfax Massacre of 1873 which saw 100 African Americans murdered.
White League membership extended across much of the Southern States.

Question 24

when was the KKK formed

Answer 24

1866

Question 25

succession of reconstruction

Answer 25

gave black people greater freedom to hold positions of political power, migrate around the country and create their own institutions
20% of black people became literate

Question 26

failures of reconstruction work

Answer 26

• violence in the south continued
• many northern politisas lost interest in southern issues
• economic depression worsened