reconstruction

Question 1

what were the issues facing reconstruction

Answer 1

physical damage of the war, attitudes from before war, sectionalism vs natinalism, economy , freed slaves rights, state governments, rebels (punishment vs amnesty)

Question 2

what was the major issue with the economy after the war

Answer 2

how do we rebuild the south

Question 3

what was the major political issue in the south

Answer 3

how to we re-add southern states

Question 4

major social issues after the war

Answer 4

how do we define the rights of african americans

Question 5

abraham’s plays in the reconstruction

Answer 5

republican, hired andrew johnson to make border states happy during war, 10% plan (10% of each state has to take a loyaly oath to be remitted into the us, but congress stepped in, but lincoln pocket vetoed it.

Question 6

what was the 10% plan

Answer 6

10% of each state has to take a loyalty oath the rejoin

Question 7

what did congress do with the 10% plan

Answer 7

they made the wade-davis bill, they need 50% of each state to take the loyalty oath, they have to denounce the south but lincoln pocket vitoed it.

Question 8

13th amendment

Answer 8

abolished slavery, all of the southern states have to ratify this to rejoin the union, but there wasn’t any economic support of rights given to the freed slaves.

Question 9

what was the freedmen’s bureau

Answer 9

provided economic relief, education and labor contracts to african americans and poor southerners, redistrubutes abandoned land to freed slaves, plantatin debt thing.

Question 10

andrew johnson

Answer 10

he didn’t think that the south ever left so they don’t need to be punished, feels the freedmens bureau is not nessesarry, approves black codes which denies basic civil rights to blacks, fires edwin even when he is not supposed to, found not guilty.

Question 11

congress

Answer 11

thinks south must be punished, freed slaves should have rights, passed laws to limit presidents power (tenure of office act)

Question 12

14th amendment

Answer 12

gives african amiercans the right to vote (males)

Question 13

what are scalawags

Answer 13

southern democrat that turned republican to take politcial power

Question 14

what are carpetbaggers

Answer 14

northern republicans who moved to the south to take politicial power

Question 15

what are redeemers

Answer 15

democrats that regain control of the state governments in the south

Question 16

what are jim crow laws

Answer 16

laws that prevented african americans to vote, (poll taxes, you have to pay to vote)(literacy tests, you have to read and explain something)(grandfather clause, if you already had the ability to vote, you dont have to pay or take the tests)

Question 17

reconstruction act of 1867

Answer 17

thaddeus and charles gives land to freedmen, sharecropping, cotton prices go up, taxes go up, people start panicing

Question 18

panic of 1873

Answer 18

several eastern banks ran out of money, 89 railroads went broke, this hurt farmers, lasted five years of 18000 folded, this led to democrats in the government

Question 19

social reality

Answer 19

increase access to education through freedmens schools, but there is a rise in kkk and black codes, increase in womens rights

Question 20

plessy vs ferguson

Answer 20

set precedent “seperate but equal”

Question 21

how does reconstruction end

Answer 21

grant is elected, wants congress to take charge but makes the anti kkk legislation

Question 22

general amnesty act of 1872

Answer 22

pardons 150000 former confederate soldiers, restores their ability to vote, 500000 vote and they are all for grant

Question 23

civil rights act

Answer 23

everyone has a right to fair treatment in public accommadations, but plessy vs ferguson elimanates it.

Question 24

election of 1876

Answer 24

samuel (dem) rutherford (rep) are so equal and three southern states can’t make a descicion so they compromise and make rutherford president but they have to have a dem in the cabinet, they need federal money for southern railroads, respect freedmen’s rights and they remove troops from the south