Reconstruction

Question 1

What is a tax paid by voters at the voting place on election day?

Answer 1

poll tax

Question 2

What was the purpose of poll taxes?

Answer 2

keep Freedmen from voting

Question 3

What word means separating people because of the color of their skin?

Answer 3

segregation

Question 4

What was an organization designed to help black citizens adjust to their new freedom?

Answer 4

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 5

What do we call the US government’s effort to rebuild the South after the Civil War?

Answer 5

Reconstruction

Question 6

Name some services that the Freedman’s Bureau provided for black people.

Answer 6

1. Helped freedmen find jobs for fair wages
2. Established schools to teach freedmen to read and write
3. Provided legal services to freedmen as needed
4. Helped family members find one another after the war
5. Ensured that newly freed slaves had basic needs met like homes, clothing, food, medical care.

Question 7

What school was established in Nashville in 1865 to educate black people aged 7 to 70?

Answer 7

Fisk University

Question 8

What is the name of the Nashville singing group that traveled around the US and Europe to help fund their school?

Answer 8

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 9

What is a vigilante terrorist hate group that used violence and intimidation to control elections?

Answer 9

Ku Klux Klan

Question 10

What word means people taking the law into their own hands using violence and intimidation, rather than a trial with a jury?

Answer 10

vigilante

Question 11

Which word refers to laws passed immediately after the Civil War that restricted the freedom of black people?

Answer 11

black codes

Question 12

What was the purpose of black codes?

Answer 12

The purpose of black codes was to create a society where freedmen would work for low wages and poor conditions, similar to slavery.

Question 13

What were laws that allowed discrimination in hotels, trains, stores, theaters, and most other public places?

Answer 13

JIm Crow laws

Question 14

After Reconstruction ended, how many years passed before another African American was elected to Tennessee’s General Assembly?

Answer 14

75 years

Question 15

Who shot Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 15

John Wilkes Booth

Question 16

What effect did Lincoln’s assassination have on our country?

Answer 16

1. People in North and South worried about how they would rebuild the nation.
2. Andrew Johnson (who was not popular with Northerners or Southerners) became president.
3. Lincoln’s goal of welcoming the South back into the US was doomed.

Question 17

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 17

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. (Made slavery illegal.)

Question 18

What did the 14th Amendment do?

Answer 18

The 14th Amendment made Freedmen citizens with equal protection under the law.

Question 19

What did the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 19

The 15th Amendment gave Freedmen the right to vote.

Question 20

How did Reconstruction end?

Answer 20

Reconstruction ended with a compromise. The Democrats (South) agreed to allow the Republicans (North) to win the presidential election of 1876. In exchange, the Republicans (North) agreed to pull all military troops out of the South. This ended the Reconstruction Era.

Question 21

What was the name of Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

Answer 21

The 10% plan

Question 22

Who would have been helped by Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan?

Answer 22

Freedmen and white Southerners would have been helped.

Question 23

Who was helped from the Radical Republican Congress’ Reconstruction plan? Who was hurt by it?

Answer 23

Freedmen were helped, and white Southerners were punished.

Question 24

Who was helped from Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan? Who was hurt by it?

Answer 24

White Southerners were helped, and Freedmen were hurt by it.

Question 25

What were some physical effects of the Civil War?

Answer 25

In the South, businesses, farms, & homes were burned; railroads and bridges were also destroyed.

Question 26

What were some social effects of the Civil War?

Answer 26

Enslaved people were freed. Many men died or lost arms/legs. Women took charge of farms while husbands were gone.

Question 27

What were political effects of the Civil War?

Answer 27

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Confederate governments were eliminated. Freedmen were given the vote. Ex-Confederates were not allowed to vote.

Question 28

What were economic effects of the Civil War?

Answer 28

No more slaves for labor in South. Railroads in South destroyed. Opportunities existed for growth of industry in the South.