Reconstruction

Question 1

Define abolitionists.

Answer 1

People who wanted to end slavery.

Question 2

Define secede.

Answer 2

Breakaway.

Question 3

What were the causes of the Civil War?

Answer 3

Issues of slavery in the territories divides the North and South, Abolitionists wanted to end slavery, South fears it will lose power in the national government, Southern states secede (breakaway) after Lincoln is elected in 1860, Confederates (South) bombard Fort Sumter.

Question 4

Why did Reconstruction end?

Answer 4

Radical Republicans began to lose power, Hayes privately agreed to end Reconstruction

Question 5

What were the effects of the Civil War?

Answer 5

President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, Northern economy booms, South loses cotton trade with Britain, Total War destroys the South’s economy.

Question 6

Define reconstruction.

Answer 6

The rebuilding of the south after the Civil War.

Question 7

Define freedmen.

Answer 7

Men and women who had been slaves.

Question 8

Define the Ten-Percent Plan.

Answer 8

A southern state could form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.

Question 9

What were the goals of the Radical Republicans?

Answer 9

Break the power of wealthy planters and ensure freedmen received the right to vote.

Question 10

Define amnesty.

Answer 10

A government pardon.

Question 11

Who did Lincoln not offere amnesty to?

Answer 11

former leaders of the Confederacy.

Question 12

The Fourteenth Amendment stated that…

Answer 12

All persons born in the United States were citizens.

Question 13

Define Wade-Davis Bill.

Answer 13

It required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union.

Question 14

Why did Lincoln refuse to sign the Wade-Davis bill?

Answer 14

Felt it was too harsh on the south.

Question 15

Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed during Reconstruction?

Answer 15

Prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights.

Question 16

Define Black Codes.

Answer 16

Laws that limited the rights of freedmen.

Question 17

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 17

(Abolished) Banned slavery throughout the nation.

Question 18

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 18

If you are born in the U.S. you are a citizen. Defined citizens as all people who were born in the U.S.

Question 19

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 19

Citizens have the right to vote. Forbid any state to deny any citizen the right to vote because of race or color.

Question 20

Define Freedmen’s Bureau.

Answer 20

A government agency to help former slaves and poor whites.

Question 21

What event led to the secession of Southern States from the Union in 1860 and 1861?

Answer 21

Election of Abraham Lincoln as president

Question 22

Define Literacy Tests.

Answer 22

Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution.

Question 23

Define poll tax.

Answer 23

Required voters to pay a fee each time they voted.

Question 24

Define grandfather clause.

Answer 24

If a voter’s father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on Jan. 1, 1867, the voter did not have to take a literacy test.

Question 25

Define scalawag.

Answer 25

Word used for small, scruffy, horses. Any southerner who helped the Republicans.

Question 26

Define carpetbagger.

Answer 26

Northerners who went to the south in hopes of getting rich from the South’s misery. The northerners were in such a hurry they had time only to fling a few clothes together in suitcases or carpetbags.

Question 27

Define sharecropper.

Answer 27

Person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop.

Question 28

Why did southern states pass the grandfather clause?

Answer 28

So that poor whites would not have to take a literacy test

Question 29

What were problems faced by the South after the Civil War?

Answer 29

Cities needed to be rebuilt, freedmen had no land, jobs, or education.

Question 30

What advantages did the North have over the South before the Civil War began?

Answer 30

More railway mileage, More manufacturing, Higher population

Question 31

Which Supreme Court case made segregation legal as long as the facilities were equal?

Answer 31

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 33

What is Andrew Johnson doing in the political cartoon?

Answer 33

Vetoing the Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 34

Based on the graphic and your knowledge of social studies why were African Americans locked into a cycle of poverty?

Answer 34

Sharecroppers were always in debt because they had to promise a greater share of next years crop.