RECONSTRUCTION Flashcards
The president that ended reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
What did the freedmen’s bureau do
Tried to help and educate blacks after the war
The south made its living after the civil war by
Growing crops
What were carpetbeggars
Northern republicans who moved south
How did southern states try to weaken reconstruction efforts
They enacted black codes
Lincoln’s postwar reconstruction plan was to set a
Tone of forgiveness
What were the two states that first gave women the right to vote
Utah and Wyoming
Why had slavery disappeared in the north before the war
It did not fit the economic interests of the north
The civil war left the south _____
In ruins
Despite the passage of several constitutional amendments _______
African Americans found gaining equal rights difficult
When reconstruction comes to an end ______
Few legal and political freedoms were guaranteed to African americans
The passage of _____ legislation by southern states led to an ________
Jim Crow
Increase in violations to African Americans rights
One major result of the reconstruction was that the
Former confederate states were restored to the union
What amendment helped ensure civil rights for African Americans
The 14th
This amendment gave southern black men the right to _____? The ____ amendment
Vote
15th
When president Johnson violated the __________ he was ______ by the house
Tenure of office act
Impeached
President Andrew Johnson clashed with _______ when he _________
Congress
Vetoed the bill to extend the freedmen’s bureau
The notion that the southern states were conquered provinces and at the mercy of congress was the view of the
Radical republicans
Abraham Lincoln wanted to take
Strong action to maintain the union
Who assasinates Lincoln
John Wilkes booth
Andrew Johnson freely handed out ______ to southern officials
Pardons
The reconstruction president ______ was considered to have a ______ administration
Ulysses S grant
Corrupt
Poll_____,_______tests and the _______ were ways that the southerners kept African Americans from voting even after slavery died
Taxes
Literacy
Grandfather clause
Compromise of 1877
Agreement to allow Hayes to be president it ended reconstruction
Infrastructure
Public property and services a society uses
Tenant farming
Farmers who rent land
15th amendment
Gave African American males the right to vote
Civil liberties
Liberties guaranteed by the constitution
Four causes of the civil war
Dred Scott decision
Uncle toms cabin
Slavery
States rights
What did the emancipation proclaimation do
Freed the slaves in the sourh
What was Lincoln’s main objective for the civil war
To preserve the union
Who was the famous general for the north
Ulysses s grant
Who was the famous general for the south
Robert e lee
What are two advantages the north had that helped them win the war
Bigger population
More industrialized
What two ways the African Americans were helped by reconstruction
13th amendment
14th amendment
What were three ways the African Americans were oppressed in the south after reconstruction
Poll taxes
Literacy test
Jim Crow laws
How did the kkk affect reconstruction in the south
It helped to reverse the reconstruction
