Reconstruction

Question 0

Who the three political philosophies regarding the reconstruction?

Answer 0

The democrats, the moderate republican, radical republicans

Question 1

What was the philosophy of the reconstruction?

Answer 1

The philosophy of the reconstruction was always at odds between the president and congress.

Question 2

What was the democrats political philosophy?

Answer 2

Democrats were against harsh measures for the southerns and did not believe in black equality or federal intervention into the reconstruction process.

Question 3

What was the moderate republicans philosophy?

Answer 3

Moderate republicans also did not believe in harsh measures, but thought that some federal intervention might be needed to reconstruct the south along the new relates of black emancipation.

Question 4

What was the radical republicans philosophy of the reconstruction?

Answer 4

Radical republicans wanted white southern leaders punished, land confiscations for the black freedmen, voting rights for freedmen and a higher level of legal equality.

Question 5

Which was president Lincoln a democrat, a moderate republican, or a radical republican.

Answer 5

A moderate republican.

Question 6

What are the three phases of the reconstruction?

Answer 6

Wartime, presidential, and radical.

Question 7

How long did wartime reconstruction last?

Answer 7

It lasted from 1863 to 1865.

Question 8

How did the wartime reconstruction phase begin?

Answer 8

It began while the war was still raging and begins with the emancipation proclamation.

Question 9

What was Lincoln 10 percent plan?

Answer 9

It was lenient proposal that when 10% of a southern state’s voting population took alliance to the United States and ended slavery, they could re-enter the Union. This was stopped by the radical republicans who offered the Wade-Davis Bill.

Question 10

Why was the freedman’s Bureau created?

Answer 10

It was created as part of the Army to help black freedmen get land, jobs, education, voting rights. Northerners who came to the south where known as carpetbaggers.

Question 11

What did General Sherman’s Field Order #15 suggest?

Answer 11

It suggest that each head of a freedman’s household get 40 acres and a U.S. Army mule.

Question 12

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 12

It finishes the work of the emancipation proclamation by abolishing slavery throughout the United States.

Question 13

How long did the Presidential Reconstruction last?

Answer 13

It lasted to 1865 to 1867.

Question 14

Who killed President Lincoln and when?

Answer 14

Actor John Wilkes assassinated president Lincoln on April 1865.

Question 15

What did Andrew Johnson was a Democrat, what did he want?

Answer 15

He wanted an easy transition of southern states back into the Union without reparations. He supported Lincoln views.

Question 16

The congress radical element wanted what during the war?

Answer 16

TheY wanted the south to pay for causing the great destruction of the war and also wanted freedom and a measure of equality for the new freed blacks.

Question 17

What was the Black Codes?

Answer 17

It banned free blacks from certain activities such as jury duty, firearms possession, and certain occupations.

Question 18

What did the religious groups in the North do?

Answer 18

They sent missionaries and aided in education.

Question 19

What did the Black Churches do for the African Americans?

Answer 19

They helped transition blacks from slavery to freedom.

Question 20

Why didn’t the impromptu “40acres and a mule” by General Sherman was never put into law or policy?

Answer 20

It was because the idea of breaking large plantations up into 40 acre plots did not make economic sense.

Question 21

Congress clashed with President Johnson over what?

Answer 21

The passage of the 14th amendment, equal protection under the law for blacks. They also wanted to downsize the U.S. army I’m enforcing reconstruction.

Question 22

The congressional (radical) reconstruction lasted from what?

Answer 22

1867 to 1870

Question 23

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?

Answer 23

The federal rights over am state laws.

Question 24

What was the 14th amendment?

Answer 24

It provided equal protection under the law and outlawed “black codes”

Question 25

Johnson went on a wild train trip to speak against the radical view of reconstruction. What was this trip called?

Answer 25

The tran trip was called “swing around the circle” and it was a political disaster for Johnson.

Question 26

Congress passed the Military reconstruction Acts, what did it do?

Answer 26

It divided the south into 5 military districts and split army missions. This begin radical reconstruction.

Question 27

President Johnson Clashed with congress over what?

Answer 27

The deployment of the army.

Question 28

President Johnson fired the secretary of war for what?

Answer 28

Disobedience and the congress impeached him for violating the Tenure of Office Act.

Question 29

What was the Tenure of Office Act?

Answer 29

It was a constitutionally controversial act that banned the president from firing cabinet members.

Question 30

President Johnson was impeached but he kept his office why?

Answer 30

He kept his office because he wasn’t found guilty of crimes and misdemeanors by 1 vote.

Question 31

The southern governments was controlled by what?

Answer 31

White and black republicans.

Question 32

White southerners that favored Reconstruction we’re known as what?

Answer 32

Scalawags by southern Democrats.

Question 33

What was the Counter-Reconstruction?

Answer 33

Violence from extra-legal groups like the KKK, kept blacks from voting and exercising their rights. Racial agitation split poor whites from blacks.

Question 34

Who won the election of 1868?

Answer 34

The republican U S Grant.

Question 35

How long did the Grant administration last?

Answer 35

From 1869 to 1877

Question 36

What was the Grant Administration?

Answer 36

An administration that was full of corruption and incompetence known as the Gilded Age.

Question 37

What was the 15th amendment?

Answer 37

It stop race discrimination in voting, but no woman’s suffrage. Feminist movement is split over the issue.

Question 38

What was the Panic of 1873?

Answer 38

The stockmarket crash and depression put southern democrats into power in the southern states and also the federal House of Representatives.

Question 39

What was the redeemers of 1874?

Answer 39

While republican controlled the White House, southern Democrats regained control of state governments.

Question 40

The election of 1876 lead to what?

Answer 40

The compromise of 1877

Question 41

Why was the election of 1876 disputed?

Answer 41

There was dispute over the counting of ballots in Louisiana and Florida.

Question 42

What deal was made over the Election of 1876 that lead to the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 42

The deal was that the Democrats would not protest the election and the republicans would win and the republicans would end reconstruction and allow the democrats to rule again in the south.

Question 43

What does impeachment mean?

Answer 43

It means an incitement

Question 44

What did the Jim Crow Laws do?

Answer 44

Governed the activities of freed blacks.