Reconstruction

Question 1

What time did reconstruction start and end

Answer 1

1865-1867

Question 2

define amnesty

Answer 2

forgiveness for any crimes committed

Question 3

Lincoln’s ten percent plan

Answer 3

10 percent of the population could vote for the new government

Question 4

freedmen

Answer 4

former slaves

Question 5

freedmen’s bureau

Answer 5

provided food, clothing, medical care for the poor, set up schools, gave some jobs in the school to freedmen

Question 6

Andrew Johnson

Answer 6

Vice president that came president when Abraham died

Question 7

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Answer 7

Amnesty was given to former Confederates, and Southern states were allowed to elect representatives to U.S. House

Question 8

13th amendment

Answer 8

abolished slavery in US

Question 9

black codes

Answer 9

helped control the newly freed African Americans

Question 10

Civil Rights Act

Answer 10

it ruled African Americans were not citizens protection rights

Question 11

14th amendment

Answer 11

born in the US and established that all citizens are equally protected under law

Question 12

Define impeachment

Answer 12

The process of bring formal charges against a public official

Question 13

15th amendment

Answer 13

Gave voting rights to African Americans Men

Question 14

scalawags

Answer 14

Former confederates who held resentment against those who had been pro-union

Question 15

carpetbaggers

Answer 15

whites from the North who traveled South after the war

Question 16

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 16

Group used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women

Question 17

Sharecropping

Answer 17

a system where landowners rented land to sharecroppers, or farmers, and seems to replace slavery

Question 18

poll taxes

Answer 18

fee required for voting

Question 19

literacy tests

Answer 19

these were used to qualify people for voting

Question 20

segregation

Answer 20

is separation of the races

Question 21

Jim Crow laws

Answer 21

it separated African Americans and whites from almost every public place like bathrooms and resturants

Question 22

lynching

Answer 22

in which angry mobs killed people by hanging them.

Question 23

Sharecropping

Answer 23

System in the South that seems to replace slavery by having a person rent land from a landowner in exchange for a percentage of the value of the crop that person farms

Question 24

Radical Reconstruction

Answer 24

A plan divided the South into 5 military districts, worked to give rights to freedmen, and took away power from former Confederates