Reconstruction

Question 1

military zone in south post civil war

Answer 1

the fact that North keeps
military presence in S after civil war shows
a lack of trust
North prob felt military zones needed to keep
rebellion under control and stop illegal slavery
military zone occupied w Northern troops benefited
former slaves by limiting Southern response to them

Question 2

Lincoln plan

Answer 2

Wants to welcome
back the South “with
malice towards none”
Called the 10% Plan
10% of a state’s voters
must pledge loyalty to
the US and support
emancipation

Question 3

Radical Republicans

Answer 3

Believe Lincoln is being
too easy on the South
Want to punish
Southerners
Demand civil rights for
freedmen
Want to provide
protection with Union
soldiers across the
South

Question 4

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 4

Drafted by Radical
Republicans in 1864
Says 50% of voters
must take the oath of
allegiance
Passes both houses of
Congress but pocket vetoed
by Lincoln (allowed to expire)

Question 5

Andrew Johnson

Answer 5

Takes office after Lincoln’s
assassination
Issues his own new plan
Calls for state conventions
to repeal secession
Eventually allows Southern
states to rejoin Union
Impeached for fighting with
Radical Republicans who
thought he was too lenient
only Southern senator who
didn't secede during CW

restoration--make S the way
it was without slavery
he's fairly racist
Johnson wanted personal apologies from South
5 military districts

Question 6

Legal English: “De Facto/De Jure” …

Answer 6

De facto means a state of affairs that
is true in fact, but that is not officially sanctioned.
In contrast, de jure means a state of
affairs that is in accordance with law
(i.e. that is officially sanctioned)

Question 7

congressional reconstruction/radical reconstruction–>Tennessee?

Answer 7

doesn’t apply to Tennessee bc they came back for Lincoln

Question 8

RR reaction to Johnson

Answer 8

Congressional Republicans, appalled by mass
killing of ex-slaves and adoption of restrictive black codes,
seized control of Reconstruction from President Johnson.
divided into 5 military districts
de facto

Question 9

Carpetbagger

Answer 9

• Northerners who
move south to
make money

Question 10

Scalawag

•

Answer 10

Southern

Republican

Question 11

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 11

Helps former slaves with schools,

getting jobs & housing

Question 12

Elections

Answer 12

•African-Americans voted into
office (Hiram Revels – 1st African
American senator)

Question 13

KKK

Answer 13

•Former
Confederate
soldiers who
terrorize blacks

Question 14

sharecropping

Answer 14

•Many former
slaves work
plantations
•de facto slavery

Question 15

Freedmen

Answer 15

African
-Americans who were freed from
slavery during and after the Civil War

Question 16

Black code

Answer 16

•Laws passed
in the South to
limit the
rights of
blacks

ex: blacks must sign written
labor contracts proving
employment otherwise
they'll be forced to work for free
de facto slavery

Question 17

Civil Rights Act

Answer 17

Congress passes in 1864--black people are citizens
and have those rights so black codes
doesn't work
but rest of Dred Scott decision still
in effect and DS couldn't sue
cause not a citizen
so 14th Amendment--all people born in
America citizens
3/4 of the states have to vote on it
Johnson trashes, states get pissed and vote in
Radical Republicans

Question 18

Radical Reconstruction on states

Answer 18

you’re not a
state. you’re a military occupied district
until notified.

Question 19

15th amendment

Answer 19

guarantees right to vote to all male citizens

says right to vote is not a right of citizenship

Question 20

14th Amendment

Answer 20

-all people born in

America citizens

Question 21

13th Amendment

Answer 21

no slavery

Question 22

•Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 22

elected
president in 1868
•Advocates for rights of
freed slaves
•15th Amendment
passes

Question 23

End of Reconstruction election

Answer 23

•Republican
Rutherford B.
Hayes
•Vs.
Democrat
Samuel Tilden
Tilden won 184 electoral votes
• Hayes won 165 electoral votes
• 20 electoral votes in dispute
(Florida, Louisiana, and South
Carolina)
• Each party reported its
candidate had won those
states

Question 24

The Compromise of

1877

Answer 24

, avoided the crisis by granting Hayes the
Presidency. In return, Hayes promised to
remove the last Federal soldiers from the South,
almost guaranteeing that all-white governments
would rise to power and ending reconstruction

Question 25

jim crow era

Answer 25

• KKK takes power in Southern states
• Segregation of races
• States
find
ways to
deny
rights to
blacks