Reconstruction

Question 1

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 1

John Wilkes Booth

Question 2

Where was Lincoln assassinated?

Answer 2

Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C.

Question 3

When was Lincoln assissinated?

Answer 3

April 14, 1865

Question 4

List the 4 plans for the South after the Civil War?

Answer 4

1. Lincoln 10% plan
2. Johnson’s plan
3. Southern Democrat Plan
4. Radical Republican Plan

Question 5

What was the Lincoln 10% plan?

Answer 5

Called for only a small percentage of a State’s population to swear loyalty to be readmitted.
Amnesty to Confederate officials and officers were granted.

Question 6

What was Johnson’s plan?

Answer 6

The majority of the Southerners to swear loyalty to be readmitted as a state.
Also, it called for the ratification of the 13th amendment and NOT the 14th and 15th amendments.

Question 7

What was the Southern Democrat plan?

Answer 7

Called for a return to the old ways (slavery, etc.).

Also, the 14th and 15th amendments should NOT be ratified.

Question 8

What does ratified mean?

Answer 8

Be made into law

Question 9

What is the Radical Republican plan?

Answer 9

Wanted to punish the South.
Banned all Confederate generals and officials from political office.
Required ratifying the 14th and 15th amendments.

Question 10

Define amnesty.

Answer 10

When a president grants pardons to large groups of people.

Question 11

Define pardon.

Answer 11

When a judge or president allows a person to not be punished.

Question 12

What is the Freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 12

An organization designed by congress to help newly freed slaves become normal citizens.
They were given food, money and schools for education.

Question 13

What is a carpetbagger?

Answer 13

A northerner who moved south to make money off of the Southern people.
Called a carpetbagger because the suitcase that they carried their possesions in were many times made out of plaid or carpet material.

Question 14

Define Scalawag.

Answer 14

A Southerner who supported Northern ideas and wanted Reconstruction to occur.
Were treated just as bad as African Americans.

Question 15

What is a poll tax?

Answer 15

A tax that was required to be paid in order to vote.
Must be paid every year.
Hurts poor African Americans who cannot afford the money to pay the tax.
Keeps them from voting so only white people will stay in office.

Question 16

Define lynch.

Answer 16

To hang a person without a trial.

Was used mainly on African Americans by Southerners (particularly the Ku Klux Klan) for the purpose of fear.

Question 17

What are the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 17

Discrimination laws against African Americans.

The name was meant to be insulting to blacks.

Question 18

What are Black Codes?

Answer 18

Local, unwritten discriminatory laws against blacks.

Not allowed to carry guns, gather in groups, etc.

Question 19

What is the Grandfather Clause?

Answer 19

If a member of the family was able to vote before 1867, these people do not have to take the literacy tests created in order to vote.
Since no African American was allowed to vote before this date, all African Americans were required to take the test.
This allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote.

Question 20

What is the 13th amendment?

Answer 20

Slavery is abolished in the United States.

Question 21

What is the 14th amendment?

Answer 21

All men are created equal under the law.

All men have equal rights reardless of race or ethnicity.

Question 22

What is the 15th amendent?

Answer 22

All men are allowed to vote, regardless of race or ethnicity.

Question 23

Who was the 17th president?

Answer 23

Andrew Johnson

Question 24

What did Andrew Johnson believe about Reconstruction?

Answer 24

He believed that the power for Reconstruction should be in control by the President.
He was a Southern Democrat who hated aristocrats, but did not want equality between whites and blacks.

Question 25

What are the firsts as president associated with Andrew Johnson?

Answer 25

1. First to have veto overriden

2. First to be impeached by Congress (found not guilty by Senate by 1 vote)

Question 26

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 26

A group founded by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, a former Southern general of the Civil War.

Question 27

Why was the Ku Klux Klan formed?

Answer 27

To stop Radical Reconstruction
To return the South to the old ways
To prevent freed blacks from voting or holding political office

Question 28

Was the KKK supported by Grant?

Answer 28

No, it was attacked by Grant and went into remission after many arrests were made (KKK act).

Question 29

Who was the 18th President of the United States?

Answer 29

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 30

What is Grant known for?

Answer 30

He created the Transcontinental Railroad, Secret Service and stopped early parts of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 31

What made Grant look bad?

Answer 31

He appointed many friends to cabinet positions who ended up getting caught for money scandals.

Question 32

What causes Northern support for Reconstruction to decline?

Answer 32

1. Grant’s cabinet scandals and the corruption led to people losing faith in the government.
2. Panic of 1873 - (increased creation of Greenbacks decreases the worth of the dollar) caused loss of faith in the economy. Created
   a 6 year depression in the United States.
3. Concern ove westward expansion and Indian wars cause people to be less concerned with Reconstruction
4. People were tired of dealing with the process of rebuilding the south.

Question 33

Who were the candidates in the election of 1876?

Answer 33

Republican - Rutherford B. Hayes

Democratic - Samuel Tiden

Question 34

Who won the election of 1876?

Answer 34

The election turned into a tie on the electoral college.
Tilden earned more of the popular vote by 3%.
Election goes to the House of Representatives.
The compromise of 1877 results in Rutherford B. Hayes being elected President.

Question 35

What is the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 35

Congress agreed to the following terms to secure the election of 1876:

1. Rutherford B. Hayes will become President (Republicans want this)
2. Federal troops are pulled from the South (Democrats want this)
3. Hayes must appoint a Democrat to his cabinet (Democrats want this)
4. Government will provide land grants for railroads linking the South and the West (Democrats want this)
5. Southern government will respect the rights of African Americans (Republicans wanted this)