Reconstruction

Question 1

Order of presidents

Answer 1

Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes,

Question 2

Why did African Americans stay in the South?

Answer 2

Because they worked hard for in their families, communities, they started their own businesses, they didn’t think life would be better anywhere else.

Question 3

Why did some African Americans move?

Answer 3

They wanted equality, better treatment, and a better life

Question 4

What were new requirements to vote?

Answer 4

Poll tax and a literacy test- anyone who wanted to vote had to pass a reading test and pay a fee, because of this many AA didn’t vote

Question 5

Separate but equal was established during which court case?

Answer 5

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 6

Most black votes joined Lincoln’s political party which was?

Answer 6

Republican party

Question 7

Who did Hayes run against in the election of 1876?

Answer 7

Samuel Tilden

Question 8

The election of 1876 was disputed over the?

Answer 8

electoral vote

Question 9

Resolved

Answer 9

to find a solution for

Question 10

Compromise of 1877

Answer 10

the democrats allowed hayes to become president in return for the removal of federal troops in the South

Question 11

Grandfather clause

Answer 11

stated that taxes and tests did not apply to any man whose father or grandfather could vote on 1867. Since no blacks could vote on that date, this only applied to whites.

Question 12

Why was the KKK formed?

Answer 12

formed secret societies to drive AA out of political life.

Question 13

13th 14th 15th amendment

Answer 13

13- abolished slavery
14- granted citizenship
15- right to vote

Question 14

Reconstruction means

Answer 14

rebuilding of South

Question 15

Black Codes

Answer 15

kept freedmen at bottom of the social order in the South

Question 16

Freedmens Bureau

Answer 16

provided food and medical care to both blacks and whites in the south, helped freedmen arrange wages and good working conditions.

Question 17

What president was impeached in the mid to late 1800

Answer 17

andrew johnson

Question 18

Sharecropping

Answer 18

only a little better than slavery, when someone worked on someone else’s land for money but ends up with almost no money because of expenses.

Question 19

Johnson’s reconstruction plan

Answer 19

states can rejoin union if…
1. new state constitution
2. repealed acts of secession
3. canceled war debts
4. elected a new government
5. ratified the 13th amendment

Question 20

Enforcement acts

Answer 20

made it illegal to prevent someone from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics

Question 21

Who made up the largest group of new southern voters?

Answer 21

Northerners who moved to South after the war- carpetbaggers

Question 22

Radical Republicans

Answer 22

believed that the South wouldn’t be completely rebuilt until Freedmen were granted the full rights of citizenship

Question 23

What are Jim Crow Laws and why were they passed

Answer 23

• laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after civil war
• to draw a color line between whites and blacks

Question 24

Use the magnifying glass tool to examine this image of a family record created after the Civil War. This family record was created for use by

Answer 24

freed slaves

Question 25

Look at the scene in the lower left of the image. What does it show?

Answer 25

slaves before the Civil War

Question 26

According to the Fourteenth Amendment, what must states guarantee to citizens?

Answer 26

equal protection of the laws

Question 27

Due process of law means that government must act reasonably and fairly in accordance with established laws. The Fourteenth Amendment applies this to

Answer 27

state and local government

Question 28

Who is 3rd to vote in the image

Answer 28

a union army veteran

Question 29

After the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, southern states adopted new state constitutions that established free public education for

Answer 29

white children only

Question 30

Hayes ran for office in which political party

Answer 30

republian

Question 31

In the first paragraph, President Hayes refers to a tribunal. Using what you know from Section 23.5, what was the purpose of this tribunal?

Answer 31

deciding which candidate should get disputed electoral votes in the presidential election of 1876

Question 32

in the 2nd paragraph what does sole mean

Answer 32

particular

Question 33

The final paragraph refers to “a government of the people.” What does Hayes mean by this?

Answer 33

a democratic government

Question 34

What does hayes mean by the “issue of contest”

Answer 34

the result of the presidential reconstruction

Question 35

who was in power of the South during congressional reconstruction?

Answer 35

congress