Reconstruction and the New South (Chapter 12)

Question 1

president, made the Ten Percent Plan to get the south to rejoin the union

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln

Question 2

enslaved people who had been freed by the war

Answer 2

Freedman

Question 3

killed Abe Lincoln at a play

Answer 3

John Wilkes Booth

Question 4

helped south rejoin the union and be apart of congress

Answer 4

Andrew Johnson

Question 5

new laws used by southern states to control African Americans

Answer 5

Black Codes

Question 6

African American who served in the U.S. House of Representatives

Answer 6

Hiram Revels

Question 7

southern whites who had opposed secession

Answer 7

Scalawag

Question 8

northern white who went south to start businesses or pursue political careers

Answer 8

Carpetbagger

Question 9

the bringing of formal charges against a public official

Answer 9

Impeachment

Question 10

personal tax to be paid before voting

Answer 10

Poll Tax

Question 11

a test to see if a person can read or right

Answer 11

Literacy Test

Question 12

African American who was arrested for sitting in a “White Only” couch

Answer 12

Homer Plessy

Question 13

laborer who works the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop

Answer 13

Sharecropper

Question 14

slave states that did not secede

Answer 14

Border State

Question 15

type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens rights are suspended

Answer 15

Martial Law

Question 16

general who took risks and took control of most of the Mississippi River

Answer 16

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 17

free

Answer 17

Emancipate

Question 18

constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Answer 18

Habeas Corpus

Question 19

a tough general who advanced towards Atlanta

Answer 19

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 20

all out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy’s army, its resources, and its people’s will to fight

Answer 20

Total War

Question 21

meant that people in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected representatives decide

Answer 21

Popular Sovereignty

Question 22

withdraw

Answer 22

Secede

Question 23

wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin about an abused slave

Answer 23

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 24

false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause

Answer 24

Propaganda

Question 25

approved the Kansas-Nebraska

Answer 25

Stephen Douglas

Question 26

killed proslavery men by proslavery settlement

Answer 26

John Brown

Question 27

enslaved person who went to court for his freedom

Answer 27

Dredd Scott

Question 28

slave states that did not secede

Answer 28

Border States

Question 29

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Answer 29

Robert E. Lee

Question 30

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Answer 30

Jefferson Davis