Reconstruction

Question 1

Each state has the number of electoral votes that equals the number of ____ it has plus the number of ____ it has

Answer 1

Senators, members of the House of Representatives

Question 2

What did the 13th Amendment say?

Answer 2

Slavery is illegal, as well as all forced work (except in prisons)

Question 3

What did the 14th Amendment say?

Answer 3

• Citizenship defined (those born or naturalized in the US)
• Equal protection under the law and due process (rights of citizenship can’t be denied by any state)
  -Black people are now citizens
• Former state/federal officials before the war who joined the Confederacy could not be state/federal officials again

Question 4

What did the 15th Amendment say?

Answer 4

Right to vote extended to all men of all races/colors (including former slaves)

Question 5

What organization provided food, housing, medical aid, and education for former enslaved people?

Answer 5

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 6

What group of people were not given full citizenship or full rights with the 14th Amendment?

Answer 6

Native Americans

Question 7

What were the two main goals of Reconstruction?

Answer 7

• Assist former enslaved people
• Unite the country

Question 8

What and when was Reconstruction?

Answer 8

Reconstruction was the era after the civil war, lasting from 1865-1877

Question 9

Assasinate

Answer 9

To kill an important person, usually for political reasons

Question 10

Discriminatory

Answer 10

Treatment against people based on the group or class to which they belong, such as race

Question 11

Civil Rights

Answer 11

Rights that protect the ability to participate in activities granted to citizens, without discrimination or personal liberties

Question 12

Aqquited

Answer 12

Having been declared not guilty of a crime

Question 13

Enfranchise

Answer 13

To admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting

Question 14

Sharecropping

Answer 14

A system whereby farmers receive supplies and land in exchange for providing a share of the crop to the landowner

Question 15

What part of Congress has the power to impeach the president?

Answer 15

The House of Representatives

Question 16

Carpetbagger

Answer 16

A Northerner who came to work in the South as a reformer

Question 17

Scalawag

Answer 17

A native white Southerner who collaborated with the occupying forces during Reconstruction, often for personal gain

Question 18

What compromise ended Reconstruction? What were the 3 parts of that compromise?

Answer 18

• The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction
• Three parts of the Compromise of 1877 were…
  1. Hayes would become president
  2. Federal troops would leave the South
  3. The government would provide aid for Southerners’ public projects

Question 19

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation by sating that separate but equal facilities did not violate the US Constitution?

Answer 19

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 20

Class Citizenship Requirements

Answer 20

1. Follow directions and class routines
2. Participation
3. Keep an organized notebook
4. Collaborate

Question 21

Impeach

Answer 21

To charge an official with misconduct

Question 22

What were three positive events of Reconstruction?

Answer 22

1. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
2. Freedmen’s Bureau
3. Country Reunited

Question 23

What were three negative events of Reconstruction?

Answer 23

1. The Ku Klux Klan
2. The Jim Crow laws
3. The economy hit depression

Question 24

What was a primary aim of Reconstruction?

Answer 24

Readmitting Confederate states to the Union

Question 25

Lincoln’s approach to the South after the Civil War was ___

Answer 25

Balanced

Question 26

The 14th Amendment gave citizenship rights to all freedmen. This meant they would ___

Answer 26

Receive equal protection under the law

Question 27

What phrase most accurately describes the Reconstruction project?

Answer 27

Well-intentioned but incomplete

Question 28

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Answer 28

Granted equal rights to blacks in public accommodations

Question 29

Segregation

Answer 29

Separate

Question 30

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 30

Kept blacks and whites separate

Question 31

Persons of color

Answer 31

Anyone suspected of having a black ancestor

Question 32

Supremacy

Answer 32

Dominance; authority; power

Question 33

Supreme Court

Answer 33

Highest court in the land

Question 34

Poll tax

Answer 34

A fee charged at the voting booth

Question 35

Literacy test

Answer 35

A reading and writing test

Question 36

Discrimination

Answer 36

Prejudice

Question 37

Facilities

Answer 37

Public accommodations: Theaters, restaurants, hotels, schools, parks, trains, streetcars, and even restrooms