Reconstruction Era Chpt 15-18

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

1863-1877
Reconstructing:
equal rights, north & south union, union itself, concession of the union to change, rebuild nation, reconstructing US

Question 2

What does Lincoln try to do

Answer 2

Tries implementing Reconstruction during the war and thought if states started rejoining union it would be a domino effect

Question 3

What is Lincoln going to want states to do to rejoin the union?

Answer 3

Wants to make it possible and easy for them to return, wants to maintain union and take loyalty vote to the union

Question 4

Lincoln’s thoughts on Blacks

Answer 4

Doesn’t believe in black equal rights, not an abolitionist

- fights the war to keep the union not because of slavery

Question 5

What happens after Lincoln’s assignation

Answer 5

Southern Democrat Andrew Jackson takes his place, creates problem

Question 6

What does Jackson want

Answer 6

Wants to reconstruct as well

Question 7

What does the north want as reconstruction

Answer 7

Voting rights, black equality, civil rights for freed people, 13th amendment implemented (later does end of 1865)

Question 8

Andrew Jackson was

Answer 8

A white supremacist

Question 9

What did the Black Code Laws do

Answer 9

Circumscribed their laws
Limits economic rights/political
Can’t carry firearms

Question 10

White southerners response after 1867:

Answer 10

KKK promotes white supremacy, secret org.
They killed and burned buildings/property
Intimated not to vote

Question 11

15th amendment

Answer 11

No state shall deny someone the right to vote

- southern whites use their power

Question 12

14th amendment

Answer 12

Defined citizenship in us
If you’re born on US soil, you’re a citizen
- no state shall deny equal protection of law or due process (can’t hold someone without charging them)
TREATED EQUAL NO DISTINCTION

Question 13

Reconstruction

Answer 13

Attempt to reconstruct the nation and union

Question 14

What did northerners do to prevent blacks from going north

Answer 14

Put up bonds (pay money) to enter a state

-embraced abolishment of slavery but not equality

Question 15

Plexus vs Ferguson

Answer 15

1896/ separate but equal

- upheld racial segregation restrictions in public facilities, as long as segregated facilities were equal in quality

Question 16

How do freed people make a living?

Answer 16

Became sharecroppers - produce crop on rented land and get paid for how much produced

A method of control
-skill sets in agriculture, factors/merchants/planters

Question 17

Factors, Merchants, sharecroppers

Answer 17

Factors, borrow money
Merchants, planters
Sharecroppers, borrow money and rent land

Question 18

Crop lien system

Answer 18

To obtain needed supplies each year, had to promise their crops to local merchants who then sold them goods on credit. Any outstanding debts were added to their bills the following year

Question 19

Who voted for republicans

Answer 19

Southern whites

Question 20

Industrialization

Answer 20

Increased urbanization- need concentration of workers

Question 21

What changed during industrialization

Answer 21

Saw woman and children working- no age limit to bring extra $$

• unionization, rise and legitimacy
• mechanization- rise of injuries- sleep deprivation from long hours

Question 22

Attorney general

Answer 22

Richard oney

-breaks strikes and unions

Question 23

AFL

Answer 23

American federation of labor
Saw native Americans as foreigners
Excluded them as citizens, couldn’t become citizens

Question 24

JP Morgan

Answer 24

Banker,

Helps himself, economy evolving into a business economy, which provides capital for economical expansion- help shape it

Question 25

Boss Tweed

Answer 25

Corruption within city government

• wants political loyalty in return to assistance (housing)
• maintains power through loyalty

Question 26

Imperialism

Answer 26

Extending power over another inhabited territory

• accompanies exploitation
• emerges 1890s
• industrial capabilities to take over
• economic, commerce, trade justification, social just.

Question 27

1890s

Answer 27

US expands to Hawaii

Question 28

Civilized and uncivilized nations

Answer 28

West is superior

Question 29

Spanish American War, 1898

Answer 29

Invades Cuba, was a Spanish colony
Cuba wants independence
-US interested in resources

Question 30

US becomes interested in Philippines

Answer 30

Wants harbors, railroads

-replace Spanish with Americans

Question 31

Sphere of influence

Answer 31

A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
- China was opposed upon

Question 32

Open door policy

Answer 32

Best way to avoid conflict with China was to keep an open market for all

Question 33

Panama Canal

Answer 33

• interlock system
• make treaty with panama, wants canal
• sees as independent nation

Question 34

Progressivism - Era of Reform

Answer 34

Labor and social reform, economical

Question 35

Muckgreggors

Answer 35

Journalists reporting everything and real exposure

Question 36

Banking reforms

Answer 36

Federal reserve banking system
Extends loans to private banks
Banks loan money to private sectors

Question 37

Clayton Antitrust Act

Answer 37

A

Question 38

The Great War 1914

Answer 38

Huge expands of territory, mass devastation & casualties

-1st use of aerial warfare, submarine and torpedo ships

Question 39

What caused war

Answer 39

Started with assignation of arch duke frans Ferdinand

-Land and Territory

Question 40

How did a British ship get torpedoed

Answer 40

It was a passenger ship carrying military supplies, illegal, not expecting to get caught

Question 41

Woodrow Wilson’s famous line

Answer 41

I kept us out of the war

Wants to side with democracy

Question 42

14 points

Answer 42

League of Nations
-collective security- group of nations could protect each other (collective protection)

-Addresses issuers that lead to war
US never joins L.O.N