Reconstruction Flashcards
What is a tax paid by voters at the voting place on election day?
poll tax
What was the purpose of poll taxes?
keep Freedmen from voting
What word means separating people because of the color of their skin?
segregation
What was an organization designed to help black citizens adjust to their new freedom?
Freedman’s Bureau
What do we call the US government’s effort to rebuild the South after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Name some services that the Freedman’s Bureau provided for black people.
- Helped freedmen find jobs for fair wages
- Established schools to teach freedmen to read and write
- Provided legal services to freedmen as needed
- Helped family members find one another after the war
- Ensured that newly freed slaves had basic needs met like homes, clothing, food, medical care.
What school was established in Nashville in 1865 to educate black people aged 7 to 70?
Fisk University
What is the name of the Nashville singing group that traveled around the US and Europe to help fund their school?
Fisk Jubilee Singers
What is a vigilante terrorist hate group that used violence and intimidation to control elections?
Ku Klux Klan
What word means people taking the law into their own hands using violence and intimidation, rather than a trial with a jury?
vigilante
Which word refers to laws passed immediately after the Civil War that restricted the freedom of black people?
black codes
What was the purpose of black codes?
The purpose of black codes was to create a society where freedmen would work for low wages and poor conditions, similar to slavery.
What were laws that allowed discrimination in hotels, trains, stores, theaters, and most other public places?
JIm Crow laws
After Reconstruction ended, how many years passed before another African American was elected to Tennessee’s General Assembly?
75 years
Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What effect did Lincoln’s assassination have on our country?
- People in North and South worried about how they would rebuild the nation.
- Andrew Johnson (who was not popular with Northerners or Southerners) became president.
- Lincoln’s goal of welcoming the South back into the US was doomed.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. (Made slavery illegal.)
What did the 14th Amendment do?
The 14th Amendment made Freedmen citizens with equal protection under the law.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
The 15th Amendment gave Freedmen the right to vote.
How did Reconstruction end?
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.
What was the name of Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?
The 10% plan
Who would have been helped by Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan?
Freedmen and white Southerners would have been helped.
Who was helped from the Radical Republican Congress’ Reconstruction plan? Who was hurt by it?
Freedmen were helped, and white Southerners were punished.
Who was helped from Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan? Who was hurt by it?
White Southerners were helped, and Freedmen were hurt by it.
What were some physical effects of the Civil War?
In the South, businesses, farms, & homes were burned; railroads and bridges were also destroyed.
What were some social effects of the Civil War?
Enslaved people were freed. Many men died or lost arms/legs. Women took charge of farms while husbands were gone.
What were political effects of the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Confederate governments were eliminated. Freedmen were given the vote. Ex-Confederates were not allowed to vote.
What were economic effects of the Civil War?
No more slaves for labor in South. Railroads in South destroyed. Opportunities existed for growth of industry in the South.
