Reconstruction Exam Social Studies

Question 1

Unjust and prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things especially on the grounds of race, age, and, or sex. (A.K.A)- The negative treatment of others because they are different.)

Answer 1

Discrimination

Question 2

If your grandfather can vote, you can vote, but if your grandfather could not … this is the answer to the south´s desire to keep blacks out of the voting class.

Answer 2

Grandfather Clause

Question 3

To make change

Answer 3

Amend

Question 4

the forced separation of people of different races in public places.

Answer 4

Segregation

Question 5

A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote.

Answer 5

Poll Tax

Question 6

Members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the union.

Answer 6

Radical Republicans of Reconstruction

Question 7

An agency establish by congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South. (To help African Americans Obtain their rights, free service.)

Answer 7

Freedmen´s Bureau

Question 8

a law that enforced segregation in Southern States

Answer 8

Jim Crow Laws

Question 9

Reading and writing exams given in order to cast a vote in the South (backfires because many white southerns are illiterate.)

Answer 9

Literacy Texts

Question 10

A railroad system that crossed the continental United States construction began in 1863.

Answer 10

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 11

The period following the civil war during which the US gov´t work to reunite the nation and rebuild the Southern States.

Answer 11

Reconstruction Time Period

Question 12

Laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans.

Answer 12

Black Codes

Question 13

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their rights.

Answer 13

KKK: Ku Klux Klan

Question 14

Under the military Reconstruction Act the South would spilit into 5 military zones controlled by former union generals during and was going to be used to make sure the South followed the various rules of reconstruction.

Answer 14

5 military zones

Question 15

U.S. Supreme Court case that established the “Separate but Equal.” doctrine for public facilities (equal is not defined by constitution publicly separate by race.

Answer 15

Plessy Vs. Ferguson

Question 16

Legalizes Jim Crow Laws and the Segregation of people by races.

Answer 16

“Separate but equal.”

Question 17

Outlaws slavery in the US (Abolishes slavery)

Answer 17

13th Amendment

Question 18

Gives Civil Rights and citizenship to all African Americans in the US (Become citizens/Equal Rights)

Answer 18

14th Amendment

Question 19

Gives voting rights to all black men over the age of 21 in the USA (Can vote)

Answer 19

15th Amendment

Question 20

Discrimination

Answer 20

Unjust and prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things especially on the grounds of race, age, and, or sex. (A.K.A)- The negative treatment of others because they are different.)

Question 21

Grandfather Clause

Answer 21

If your grandfather can vote, you can vote, but if your grandfather could not … this is the answer to the south´s desire to keep blacks out of the voting class.

Question 22

Amend

Answer 22

To make change

Question 23

Segregation

Answer 23

the forced separation of people of different races in public places.

Question 24

Poll Tax

Answer 24

A special tax that a person had to pay in order to vote.

Question 25

Radical Republicans of Reconstruction

Answer 25

Members of congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the union.

Question 26

Freedmen´s Bureau

Answer 26

An agency establish by congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South. (To help African Americans Obtain their rights, free service.)

Question 27

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 27

a law that enforced segregation in Southern States

Question 28

Literacy Texts

Answer 28

Reading and writing exams given in order to cast a vote in the South (backfires because many white southerns are illiterate.)

Question 29

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 29

A railroad system that crossed the continental United States construction began in 1863.

Question 30

Reconstruction Time Period

Answer 30

The period following the civil war during which the US gov´t work to reunite the nation and rebuild the Southern States.

Question 31

Black Codes

Answer 31

Laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans.

Question 32

KKK: Ku Klux Klan

Answer 32

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their rights.

Question 33

5 Military Zones

Answer 33

Under the military Reconstruction Act the South would spilit into 5 military zones controlled by former union generals during and was going to be used to make sure the South followed the various rules of reconstruction.

Question 34

Plessey vs. Ferguson

Answer 34

U.S. Supreme Court case that established the “Separate but Equal.” doctrine for public facilities (equal is not defined by constitution publicly separate by race.

Question 35

“Separate but equal.”

Answer 35

Legalizes Jim Crow Laws and the Segregation of people by races.

Question 36

13th Amendment

Answer 36

Outlaws slavery in the US (Abolishes slavery)

Question 37

14th Amendment

Answer 37

Gives Civil Rights and citizenship to all African Americans in the US (Become citizens/Equal Rights)

Question 38

15th Amendment

Answer 38

Gives voting rights to all black men over the age of 21 in the USA (Can vote)

Question 39

Lincolns 10% Plan

Answer 39

-Lincolns plan
-Forgive the South and forget the last four bloody years ever happened
-Pardon all Confederates (Generals,soldiers,leaders)
10 % of the voting male population swear oath of loyalty to USA
-Keep Southern Lifestyle
-Let land owners keep their land but NOT their slaves
-Easy on the south

Question 40

CarpetBaggers

Answer 40

Went to the South and stole stuff from the people

Question 41

Scalawags

Answer 41

People white and black that went against the South after Lincolns proclamation.

Question 42

Sharecropping

Answer 42

When a former slave goes back to their master and works on their land and in return gets half of the money they produce.

Question 43

Radical Republicans Plan

Answer 43

-Republicans from Congress
-Change Southern Society
-Secure Civil Rights for Blacks
-Destroy Planter class
-Redistribute the land
Develop Industry
-Take South and break it into 5 military districts run by former Union Soldiers
-Build factories,towns, railroads
-Ratify Reconstruction Amendments
-Freedmens Bureau
-Developed West in the same way
- Harsh on South

Question 44

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 44

-50% swear oath by male voters to USA
-Civil Rights to blacks but NO voting rights
-It was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and not passed
-HARSHEST ON THE SOUTH

Question 45

Johnson’s Plan

Answer 45

-New President after Lincoln is killed
-Before Lincolns death, Johnson promised to punish the South and be strict with the Reconstruction plan but when he becomes President, Johnson backs out of all his ideas and does nothing of what he said
-Impeached but wins by one vote to stay as president however, no one listens to him ever again
- Major loser in gov’t eyes