Reconstruction and its aftermath

Question 1

The reconstruction amendments

Answer 1

13: abolish slavery
14: Guarantee citizenship
15: the right to vote

Question 2

Radical Republicans

Answer 2

revenge against the south for starting the war
south must accept the 13th 14th and 15th amendments with military forces to enforce it

Question 3

Andrew Johnson

Answer 3

South can do whatever they want
he was a border state slave owner himself
he let the south create black codes/Jim crow laws

Question 4

The Freedom’s bureau

Answer 4

It helped freedpeople establish schools, purchase land, locate family members, and legalize marriages. The Bureau also supplied necessities such as food and clothing, operated hospitals and temporary camps, and witnessed labor contracts between freedmen and plantation owners or other employers.

Question 5

Redeemers

Answer 5

Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.

Question 6

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 6

The main goal was to restrict reconstruction, intimidated blacks and whites from pushing rights to vote, enforcers of Jim Crow Laws

Question 7

Plessy V Ferguson

Answer 7

Court Case that “enforced separation of the races” it legalized the idea of segregation: separate but equal

Question 8

Sharecropping

Answer 8

The land owner gives one a share of land, person gives crop back

Question 9

W.E.B Du Bois

Answer 9

Leader of the Niagara movement, a group of black people seeking civil rights even though they shouldn’t even have to but because of the corrupt government at the time, they had to fight to deserve equal treatment, sometimes I hate humans. He was also one of the founders for NAACP in 1909, National association for the advancement of colored people.

Question 10

Booker T. Washington

Answer 10

Agricultural scientist and inventor. Invited to speak at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Washington publicly accepted disfranchisement and social segregation as long as whites would allow black economic progress, educational opportunity, and justice in the courts.

Question 11

Tuskegee Institute

Answer 11

The first college for African Americans, founded by Booker T. Washington

Question 12

George Washington Carver

Answer 12

Born a slave, Carver joined the faculty of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1896 where he developed new products from peanuts, sweet potatoes, and other crops and conducted experiments in crop rotation and the restoration of soil fertility. I hate slavery, it ended in 1865 though.