Reconstruction (Ch. 14) Flashcards
On Jan 31, 1865, at Lincon’s urging, Congress proposed the 13th Amendment which did what?
Made slavery illegal throughout the United States
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help people? Mark all that apply
Help free slaves get land
Establish new schools
Provide food and clothing
Enforce black codes
Enforce black codes (obviously!)
The 2 main goals of the Reconstruction were:
Offer amnesty to Southerners
AND
Abolish slavery in former Confederate states
True or False: Rutherford B Hayes narrowly defeated US Grant in the 1876 election
False
Hayes (Republican) narrowly defeated Samuel Tilden (Democrat)
The Redeemers differed from men who held power in the South before the Civil War because they (choose one)
Favored Industrial Growth
Were Members of the Ku Klux Klan
Were Northern Republicans
Believed in racial equality
Favored Industrial Growth (wealthy Southerners before this point were only interested in plantation farming and abusing slaves)
Which of the following statements are FALSE about Andrew Johnson?
He clashed with the Radical Republicans and had more vetoes overridden than any other US President
He served nearly 8 years as President of the US
He admired President Andrew Jackson
He resigned his seat in the U.S. Senate and sided with the Confederacy during the Civil war
He did not serve nearly 8 years. He was President for 6 years.
He did not resign his seat in the US Senate. Even though he was a Southerner he declared loyalty to the Union and held onto his Senate seat.
Who was President when the 15th Amendment was ratified?
US Grant
15th Amendment (All MALE citizens have the right to vote)
Ratified 1870
Why was the Freedmen’s Bureau created?
To help freed African Americans start new lives
What is a scalawag?
Southerners that had supported the Union during the war and supported Republicans during Reconstruction (they were very unpopular in the South)
Which Constititutional Amendment overturned the Dred Scott v Sanford Supreme Court Decision?
14th Amendment
The Dred Scott decision (considered by many to be the worst decision ever made by the Supreme Court) said that African Americans were not citizens but rather property of white men. The 14th amendment granted citizenship to all men regardless of color.
How many African Americans were elected to office during the Reconstruction?
More than 600 to state legislatures and 16 to Congress (including 2 senators)
Who were the 2 black senators elected during Reconstruction and what state did they (surprisingly) come from?
Hiram Revels & Blanche Bruce
Mississippi
Which state was the home state of “The Victor at Vicksburg?” Also what was his name?
Ohio, U.S. Grant
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner led what political group?
Radical Republicans
They wanted the federal government to be much more involved in the Reconstruction and they wanted to be harder on pro Confederate southerners
In what Supreme Court case did the court rule that segregation was constitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson (“separate but equal”)
What basically ended the Reconstrution period?
Compromise of 1877
Gave the 1876 contested election to Republican Rutherford Hayes in exchange for the North removing all federal troops from the South.
Also Hayes said he would let the South deal with race relation problems themselves. No more pushing from the North to get them to treat former slaves fairly. Thanks Rutherford said no one ever.
A system in which landowners provided land, seeds, housing, and animals to get poor farmers started on a small plot of land.
Sharecropping
Which of these presidents were never elected to the presidency by the Electoral College?
Hayes
Johnson
Lincoln
Grant
Johnson (became president when Lincoln died)
The impeachment proceedings ________
A. began with a vote in the Senate, followed by a trial in the House of Representatives
B. gained national attention because of Johnson’s popularity with the Republicans
C. resulted in a failure to convict him, which further inreased his power as president and a second term in office
D. were carried out under the rules of the Constitution
D. were carried out under the rules of the Constitution
It can’t be A because they vote in the HOUSE and have the trial in the SENATE and not the other way around
It can’t be B because it was the Republicans that hated him and wanted him impeached because he wouldn’t force the 14th Amendment on the Southern states
It can’t be C because while they did fail to convict him, he was not popular and he didn’t run for another term
What was the test called that required men to prove they were able to read and write before voting?
Literacy Test
What was the tax called that required people to pay a fee before voting?
Poll Tax
What is the name of the terrorist organization that used violence and intimidation to prevent blacks from voting in the South?
Ku Klux Klan
What is the name of the laws passed in the South that attempted to control freed men and women?
Black codes
True or False: Redeemers believed in very limited Federal Government and cut budgets and taxes and eliminated public school and social programs
True
