Reconstruction Era

Question 1

Who was John Wilkes Booth?

Answer 1

Assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Question 2

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?

Answer 2

A bill that allowed The Bureau to set up special courts to try people charged with violating African Americans’ rights. African Americans could sit on the juries in these courts and could be the judge of accused white Southerners.

Question 3

Define Amnesty

Answer 3

Forgiveness for any crimes committed; Government pardon for wrongdoings

Question 4

Who were the Radical Republicans?

Answer 4

Members of congress who wanted extreme change after the Civil War

Question 5

Why were the Radical Republicans considered “radical”

Answer 5

Because they took a more radical approach to reconstruction.

Question 6

What two main goals did the Radical Republicans have for Reconstruction

Answer 6

1. Wanted to protect African Americans’ rights

2. Granted citizenship to African Americans.

Question 7

What was the Radical Republicans’ Act of 1867

Answer 7

Stated that the ten states that had not ratified the Fourteenth Amendment form their own new government.

Question 8

What was Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan?

Answer 8

States had to ratify the 13th amendment, amnesty was given to former Confederates, and southern states were allowed to elect representatives to the U.S. House

Question 9

Who was Andrew Johnson?

Answer 9

Vice President of the United States who took over after Lincoln’s assassination.

Question 10

What was Reconstruction?

Answer 10

Reconstruction was the rebuilding the former Confederate states and readmitting them to the Union.

Question 11

What was Radical Reconstruction

Answer 11

A plan that divided the South into 5 military districts, worked to give the rights to freedmen, and took away power from former Confederates

Question 12

Define impeachment

Answer 12

The process of bringing formal charges against a public official

Question 13

Describe Lincoln’s 10% Plan

Answer 13

1. It would require voters in each Southern state to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
2. When 10% of the voters in a state had taken the oath, the state would form a new state government.
3. The state would also be required to adopt a new constitution that banned slavery.

Question 14

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 14

Provided emergency relief, education, help finding work, help settling disputes, etc.

Question 15

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 15

Abolished all slavery in the United States.

Question 16

What did the 14th Amendment do?

Answer 16

1. Protected citizenship of African Americans

2. Established that all citizens are equally protected under the laws of the U.S.

Question 17

What did the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 17

Gave voting rights to African American males

Question 18

What were black codes?

Answer 18

Laws in the South that were meant to control freedmen

Question 19

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 19

A secret society made up of former Confederates who terrorized the freedmen in the South

Question 20

Who were the scalawags?

Answer 20

White Southerners who supported the Union (against secession or pro-Republican)

Question 21

Who were the carpetbaggers?

Answer 21

Whites from the North who traveled South after the War

Question 22

What was sharecropping?

Answer 22

A system in the South that seems to replace slavery by having a person rent land from a landowner in exchange for a percentage of the value of the crop that person farms

Question 23

Who were the freedmen

Answer 23

Former slaves

Question 24

Why did Congress impeach President Johnson?

Answer 24

Violation of the Tenure of Office Act

Question 25

Who won the Presidential election in 1876?

Answer 25

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 26

What were poll taxes?

Answer 26

A fee required by voting

Question 27

What were literacy tests?

Answer 27

1. Another way of denying voting
2. Required potential voters to read explain difficult parts of state constitutions or the federal constitution. (if you couldn’t read or write, you couldn’t vote

Question 28

What was the purpose of grandfather clauses?

Answer 28

It kept blacks from voting if their father or grandfather hadn’t voted before

Question 29

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 29

It required that all African Americans and whites were to be separated in almost every public place. They had to separate facilities because he believed that the African Americans were far from equal.

Question 30

What was decided in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 30

The Court ruled that segregation was legal as long as African Americans had access to public places equal to those of whites.

Question 31

What was lynching?

Answer 31

Angry mobs killing people by hanging them

Question 32

Who were the Exodusters?

Answer 32

African Americans who came to Kansas from the Deep South to get away from Reconstruction

Question 33

Where did most African Americans live during Reconstruction?

Answer 33

African Americans lived in the Deep South during Reconstruction most of the time

Question 34

Who was Benjamin “Pap” Singleton?

Answer 34

Land speculator and promoter who encouraged African Americans to move to Kansas.

Question 35

Who was the President in the election of 1868?

Answer 35

Ulyssess S. Grant

Question 36

Who was Samuel J. Tilden?

Answer 36

Democratic candidate for President

Question 37

Who won the election of 1876?

Answer 37

Rutherford B. Hayes.

Question 38

What was the Sharecropping Contract?

Answer 38

A giant loophole for the sharecroppers to be in debt