Reconstruction

Question 1

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 1

Anyone born in the United States is a citizen

Question 2

What is a sharecropper

Answer 2

Gives a part of crop as rent

Question 3

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 3

Granted African Americans the right to vote

Question 4

Infrastructure

Answer 4

Public property a society uses like roads bridges and railroads

Question 5

Pardon

Answer 5

Forgiveness

Question 6

Tenant Farmer

Answer 6

A person who farms rented land

Question 7

Impeach

Answer 7

Charge for misconduct

Question 8

Carpetbagger

Answer 8

Opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War

Question 9

Reconstruction

Answer 9

period immediately after the Civil War

Question 10

Scalawag

Answer 10

a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way

Question 11

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 11

established military rule over Southern states until new governments could be formed

Question 12

Black Codes

Answer 12

Restrictive laws to limit what African Americans do

Question 13

What new wealthy class developed as a result of tenant farming

Answer 13

Wealthy Merchants

Question 14

When it was determined that Johnson had violated the Tenure of Office Act, what was the result

Answer 14

He was impeached

Question 15

After the Civil War, what were the most visible new black organizations in the South?

Answer 15

Churches

Question 16

Who wanted land to be redistributed in the South following the Civil War?

Answer 16

White Southerners

Question 17

Describe and compare the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln and Johnson.

Answer 17

Lincoln and Johnson both wanted to have the 13th amendment passed for each location, both plans were considered lenient for the South. But Johnson’s more so because he granted pardons to those who would ask him personally

Question 18

Why was it difficult for poor white southern laborers to find work after the Civil War?

Answer 18

Because they were in competition and there were not enough jobs to keep them at full employment

Question 19

List any failures of Reconstruction

Answer 19

Racist attitudes continued throughout the North and the South

Question 20

Who was the winner of the 1876 presidential election? Why?

Answer 20

Hayes, because he cheated, and threw out some democratic votes so he would win

Question 21

Why were people tired of Reconstruction by the 1870’s?

Answer 21

Because the people were heavily taxed

Question 22

After the Civil War, what direction did Southern farming take?

Answer 22

Cash Crops

Question 23

Why was President Johnson impeached? Explain including result.

Answer 23

He broke the Tenure of Office Act, but he was pardoned and found not guilty

Question 24

What were the main goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 24

To help supply freedmen so they were more comfortable

Question 25

When white southerners regained control of state governments, what did they do?

Answer 25

Democrats had the power, and they planned to reverse reconstruction era reforms

Question 26

What were the main aims of the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 26

To stop African Americans from voting, or holding political office, etc. They did so violently

Question 27

How did southern governments try to improve economic conditions?

Answer 27

Tried to do a free-labor economy like the North

Question 28

Why did Radical Republicans oppose Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan?

Answer 28

Because they thought it was to lenient on the South