Reconstruction (discriminatory actions)

Question 1

Scalawag

Answer 1

a white Southerner that helped the Republicans during Reconstruction

Question 2

Carpetbagger

Answer 2

a Northerner who moved South to get rich during Reconstruction

Question 3

IV. Lincoln’s Freedmen Plans

Answer 3

Lincoln and Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau that helped ex-slaves get an education, job, food, and clothing

Question 4

Impeachment

Answer 4

to charge an elected official with a crime

Question 5

Tenure in Office Act

Answer 5

a law that gives the Senate the sole right to remove a cabinet member

Question 6

(get ready for this)
V. Andrew Johnson’s impeachment

Answer 6

• strongly opposed reconstruction acts, Congress had to pass laws to limit power
• passed the Tenure of Office Act so the president can’t remove government officials without the senate’s approval
• Congress wanted to protect Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
• tensions between Johnson and Radical Republicans grew so the pres. fired Stanton, getting impeached for violating the act
• Senate was one vote shy from impeaching him

Question 7

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 7

a white supremacist terrorist group

Question 8

Poll tax

Answer 8

a tax that was levied on black voters

Question 9

Segregation

Answer 9

separation of people based on race or other ethnic groups

Question 10

VI. Problems in the South

Answer 10

• Pres. Ulysses S. Grant wanted to make sure blacks were able to vote, adding military districts that maintained civil rights for blacks
• Southerners used the Grandfather Clause, Literary Test, and the Poll Tax to restrict black voting rights
• blacks in the south were poor and had to rely on sharecropping
• white supremacist groups formed like the KKK to separate blacks from whites by terrorizing and murdering many African Americans

Question 11

Black codes

Answer 11

restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African American

Question 12

Due Process

Answer 12

fair treatment through the normal judicial system

Question 13

VII. Black Codes

Answer 13

Southerners didn’t give blacks real freedom even after the 13th amendment, limiting their occupations to laborers and servants, banned them from owning guns, voting, or serving in juries, this was disapproved by many republicans

Question 14

VIII. Attempts at Civil Rights

Answer 14

Passed 14th amendment, required all Southern states to rewrite their constitution, tried to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1875 but the Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional

Question 15

14th Amendment

Answer 15

birthright citizenship, states can’t deprive anyone of due process

Question 16

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Answer 16

tried to ban all discrimination in public areas and transportation

Question 17

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 17

19th president who won the 1876 election although he lost the popular vote

Question 18

Compromise of 1877

Answer 18

an agreement with Southern Democrats to elect Hayes in return for ending Reconstruction

Question 19

IX. Problems in the Republicans

Answer 19

Grant’s corrupt Republican Party was comprised of “The Whiskey Ring” (his drinking friends), caused the Panic of 1873, democrats took back control and tarnished Grant’s legacy and the Republican party

Question 20

Panic of 1873

Answer 20

railroad corruption caused unemployment to skyrocket

Question 21

X. The End of Reconstruction

Answer 21

Controversial Election of 1876, New South had growing industries but only for whites

Question 22

Controversial Election of 1876

Answer 22

Hayes (R) vs Tilden (D)
won by 1 electoral college vote
basically bribed the South by promising that he would remove military soldiers from their district in return for electoral votes