Reconstruction

Question 1

What did congressional republicans mean by conquired provinces

Answer 1

Independent pieces of land the US took

Question 2

Why were the Congressional republicans worried about rapid remission of the southern states

Answer 2

fear that such a lenient
plan would allow Southerners to re-
enslave the newly freed Blacks

Question 3

List Three New Ammendments and how did the effetct blacks

Answer 3

13th Amendment (December, 1865)–
abolished slavery
Under Johnson’s plan for
Reconstruction
14th Amendment (1868)– “due process
of law” and applying the Bill of Rights
to state governments, guaranteed
citizenship to freed slaves

Question 4

What was the goal of the Freedman’s bureau

Answer 4

to meet the immediate

needs of refugees and freedmen.

Question 5

What provisions did the Freedman’s bureau provide for refugees and freedman

Answer 5

established schools and hospitals and
provided courts to settle legal disputes involving freed
blacks, provide education, and Confiscated and abandoned lands could be rented and
sold to freedmen.

Question 6

What was the greatest achievement of the Freedman’s bureau

Answer 6

education

Question 7

How many blacks did the Freedman’s bureau teach to read

Answer 7

200,000

Question 8

How did Johnson view the Freedman’s buerau

Answer 8

believed the agency should be

killed

Question 9

What was the purpose of black codes

Answer 9

laws that restricted

freedmen’s rights.

Question 10

What were the provisions of these black codes

Answer 10

Curfews, Vagrancy Laws, Labor Contracts, and Land Restrictions

Question 11

Cycle of Sharecropping

Answer 11

1. Poor whites and
freedmen have no
jobs, no homes,
and no money to
buy land. 

2. Poor whites and
freedmen sign
contracts to work a
landlord’s acreage
in exchange for a
part of the crop.

3. Landlord keeps
track of the money
that sharecroppers
owe him for housing
and food.

4. At harvest time,
the sharecropper
owes more to the
landlord than his
share of the crop
is worth.
Sharecropping and the Cycle of Debt

5. Sharecropper
cannot leave the
farm as long as he
is in debt to the
landlord.

Question 12

What did slaves/poor whites do in Tenant Farming

Answer 12

Paid to rent the land and chose
which crops to plant and how
much to work.

Question 13

Did slaves own the land they farmed on?

Answer 13

No

Question 14

goal of the KKK

Answer 14

sought to eliminate
the Republican Party in the
South by intimidating voters.

Question 15

Two ways the KKK tourmented their victums

Answer 15

They planted burning crosses
on the lawns of their victims
and tortured, kidnapped, or
murdered them.

Question 16

Whomst did the KKK target

Answer 16

Prosperous African Americans,
carpetbaggers, and scalawags
became their victims.

Question 17

What was the reason the house voted to impeach Johnson

Answer 17

“high crimes and
misdemeanors.” He tried to fire secretary of war Edward M. Santon but COngress enacted the Tenture Act of 1867 which told the president he couldnt fire anyone with the approcal of the Senate. Johnson fired him anyway

Question 18

What did the Tenture Act of 1867 require

Answer 18

Required the president
to secure the consent
of the Senate before
removing a cabinet
member once they
had been approved by
Senate.

Question 19

Failures of Rec

Answer 19

Many white southerners remain bitter toward the
federal government and the Republican Party.
Ø The South is slow to industrialize.
Ø After federal troops are withdrawn, southern
state governments and terrorist organizations
effectively dent African Americans the right to
vote.
Ø Many black and white southerners remain
caught in a cycle of poverty.
Ø Racist attitudes toward African Americans
continue, in both the South and the North.

Question 20

Succeses of Rec

Answer 20

Union is Restored
Ø The South’s economy grows and new wealth is created
in the North.
Ø Freedman’s Bureau and other organizations help many
black families obtain housing, jobs, and schooling.
Ø Southern states adopt a system of mandatory education.
Ø 14th and 15th amendments guarantee African Americans
the rights;

Question 21

What was Lincoln’s goal to restore the union and what did he promise southern states

Answer 21

Goal was to restore the Union with as
little malice as possible, he promised
rapid readmission of Southern states
into the Union.

Question 22

How did Lincoln view the south

Answer 22

He believed that the
South had never legally withdrawn
from the Union, so restoration was to
be relatively simple. He did not want to
punish the South.

Question 23

10% plan

Answer 23

Included all southern
voters, except high-ranking
Confederate officials. (Denied pardons
to officers and anyone who had killed
African American war prisoners).
They could get a full pardon and
restoration of rights (after 10% of
voters) taking an oath, pledging loyalty
to the Union and accepting the end of
slavery.

Question 24

What were states entitled to with the 10% plan and what would happen after their entitlements

Answer 24

They were also entitled to vote in
elections, create state governments
with state Constitutions.
After that the state would be eligible for
representation in Congress and
readmitted into the Union.

Question 25

What was Johnson’s tweak to the 10% plan

Answer 25

Each state could create a new
constitution without Lincoln’s 10%
allegiance requirement.

Question 26

How did souther states get these constitutions and what happened to the southern generals

Answer 26

States had to void secession, abolish
slavery and the U.S. would repudiate
(refuse to pay) the confederate debt.
Officially denied pardons to all

Confederate leaders (disenfranchised-
deprived of the right to vote), however

Johnson often issued pardons to those
who asked him personally.
States had to ratify the 13th
Amendment.

Question 27

date of Johnson’s tweak

Answer 27

May 29, 1865

Question 28

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 28

Required 50% of the states’ voters to
take oaths of allegiance and demanded
stronger safeguards for emancipation.

Question 29

date of Wade-Davis bill

Answer 29

July, 1864

Question 30

What would military leaders do in the wade davis bill and how would southern states be viewed in this bill

Answer 30

Military governors to rule Southern
states and South should be treated as
conquered territory.

Question 31

Why did Congress pass the bill

Answer 31

Congress passed the bill due to
Republican fear that such a lenient

plan would allow Southerners to re-
enslave the newly freed Blacks

Question 32

What did Lincoln do to the WD bill

Answer 32

pocket vetoed it

Question 33

Reconstruction act

Answer 33

Divided the South into 5 Military
Zones(map) each commanded by a
Union general and policed by Union
soldiers. It also required that states
wishing to be readmitted into the Union
had to ratify the 14th Amendment and
that states' constitutions had to allow
former adult male slaves to vote.

Question 34

Reconstruction Act date

Answer 34

March 2, 1867

Question 35

What did Rads view the main goal of reconstruction be

Answer 35

Insisted the main goal of
Reconstruction should be a
restructuring of society to guarantee
black people true equality.

Question 36

led the Republicans
radicals in the Senate for black
freedom and racial equality.

Answer 36

Charles Sumner

Question 37

led the radicals in

the House of Representations.

Answer 37

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 38

defined
citizenship and outlawed discrimination
on the basis of race.

Answer 38

Civil Rights Act of 1865

Question 39

Blacks began to organize politically.

Answer 39

Union Leauge

Question 40

The League became

Answer 40

a network of
political clubs that educated members
in their civic duties and campaigned for
Republican candidates.

Question 41

Provisions of Union Leauge

Answer 41

Built churches
and schools, represented Black
grievances before local employers and
governments and recruited militias to
protect black communities from white
retaliation.

Question 42

term applied to Northerners who went
South after the Civil War, often for
economic or political reasons),

Answer 42

Northern Carpetbaggers

Question 43

(whites who
cooperated with post-Civil War
Republican Reconstruction).

Answer 43

Southern scalawags