reconstruction

Question 1

What was Reconstruction

Answer 1

the task of rebuilding the former confederate states and readmitting them was called reconstruction

Question 2

Define amnesty

Answer 2

the forgiveness for any crimes committed

Question 3

Describe Abraham Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

Answer 3

the confederate states that wanted to join back in must have 10 percent of their voters take an oath and when that is accomplished they can become part of the union again.

Question 4

Why were the Radical Republicans considered “radical?”

Answer 4

they represented a more radical approach to the reconstruction of the union.

Question 5

Define freedmen

Answer 5

it was to help african americas adjust to life after slavery.

Question 6

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do? (List 3)

Answer 6

a. provided food
b. clothing
c. medical care

Question 7

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

Answer 7

the man who killed abraham lincoln

Question 8

Who was Andrew Johnson?

Answer 8

the vice president that became president

Question 9

Describe Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan.

Answer 9

it gave amnesty to most southerners who swore loyalty to the union

Question 10

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 10

it abolished slavery in the U.S.A

Question 11

What were black codes?

Answer 11

laws that were designed to help control newly freed african americans.

Question 12

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?

Answer 12

it gave government power to get involved in state affairs to protect african americans rights. also to classify them as citizens

Question 13

What were two main goals of the Radical Republicans in their approach to Reconstruction?

Answer 13

they began to create their own plan to deal with the south punish confederates

Question 14

What did the 14th Amendment do?

Answer 14

it stated that they ended slavery wrong

Question 15

Describe the Radical Republicans’ Reconstruction Act of 1867.

Answer 15

they tried to counter the supreme court decision. wrong

Question 16

Define impeachment.

Answer 16

to formally charge someone with wrongdoing of government official

Question 17

Why did Congress impeach President Johnson?

Answer 17

he fired station they said he violated tenure office act

Question 18

What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 18

it guaranteed that state and federal government couldn’t deny the right to vote of any male citizen.

Question 19

Who did southerners refer to as scalawags?

Answer 19

pro union men that had not owned enslaved men in the south

Question 20

Who were the carpetbaggers?

Answer 20

northern whites that moved to the south after the war

Question 21

Who were the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

Answer 21

they used fear and violence to to deny the rights of fread men and women
they were a secret society in the south

Question 22

What was sharecropping?

Answer 22

they were people that worked for previous plantation owners living on their land paying by the crops they grow for them on their land.