Reconstruction

Question 1

What problems faced the nation after the Civil War?

Answer 1

Cities and plantations destroyed
2/3 of the railroads destroyed
No land, no job, no education
Confederate money becomes worthless

Question 2

What was Lincoln’s ten percent plan?

Answer 2

The goal was to quickly reunite the union.

Only 10% of a state’s voters had to swear an oath of loyalty towards the union.

Question 3

What is amnesty?

Answer 3

forgiveness of any crime committed

Question 4

What was the Wade Davis Bill

Answer 4

Majority of white males would have to sign a loyalty oath before a state could return to the Union. Only those men could vote for delegates to write a new state Constitution.
Former Confederates could not hold office.

Question 5

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 5

provided emergency relief, set up schools, helped find jobs, and resolved disputes for the blacks.

Question 6

Describe Lincoln’s Murder

Answer 6

It was April 14th 1865, at Ford’s theatre in Washington D.C.

John Wilkes Booth was the assassin.

Question 7

Radical Republicans

Answer 7

The people who wanted African Americans to have as many rights as the whites. They went to extreme measures to make that happen. The Radical Republicans wants to protect the african americans and did not want the confederates to be a part of the government.

Question 8

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 8

granting citizenship rights to African Americans and guaranteeing the civil rights of all people (except Native Americans).

Question 9

The fourteenth amendment

Answer 9

all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens.

Question 10

The thirteenth amendment

Answer 10

abolished slavery

Question 11

fifteenth amendment

Answer 11

allowed all african american men to wote

Question 12

Why did Congress impeach President Johnson?

Answer 12

violated the Tenure Office Act

Question 13

define impeachment

Answer 13

charged with wrongdoing against a public official

Question 14

Describe the Radical Republicans’ Reconstruction Act of 1867.

Answer 14

divide south into 5 military districts with a general in charge of each one. New state constitution written. 13th and 14th amendment

Question 15

Who did southerners refer to as scalawags?

Answer 15

White southerners who supported the Union

Question 16

Who were the carpetbaggers?

Answer 16

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction

Question 17

Who were the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

Answer 17

A secret society who would go around terrorising the freedmen because they felt like they are worthless

Question 18

What was sharecropping?

Answer 18

Helps to replace slavery. Sharecroppers rent land from landowners for a trade of some of the crops that they farm

Question 19

Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant became President in 1868. He served for 2 terms, but problems arose during his time in office. Name two problems that occurred while Grant was in office.

Answer 19

Scandal and corruption plagued Grant’s presidency, and a severe economic depression began during his second term.

Question 20

Who won the Presidential election in 1876?

Answer 20

Governor Rutherford B Hayes

Question 21

How does the election of 1876 lead to the end of Reconstruction?

Answer 21

Hayes agrees to end Reconstruction in exchange for 20 disputed electoral votes from 3 southern states.

Question 22

What were poll taxes?

Answer 22

taxes put on everyone who voted

Question 23

What were literacy tests?

Answer 23

a test to see if the person meets the literacy requirements for voting