Reconstruction IDs 1-41

Question 1

radical republicans

Answer 1

a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction. known for their opposition to slavery, their efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Blacks, and their strong opinions on post-war Reconstruction

Question 2

freedmen’s bureau

Answer 2

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen’s Bureau, was an agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.

Question 3

black codes

Answer 3

restricted black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

Question 4

14th amendment

Answer 4

ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”

Question 5

impeach

Answer 5

the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements.

Question 6

15th amendment

Answer 6

Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, granted African American men the right to vote.

Question 7

carpetbaggers

Answer 7

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Question 8

sharecropping

Answer 8

a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

Question 9

KKK

Answer 9

U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other began in 1915 and has continued to the present.

Question 10

Redemption

Answer 10

the return of white supremacy and the removal of rights for blacks – instead of Reconstruction.

Question 11

Home Rule

Answer 11

government for the most part by white southern Democrats

Question 12

Booker T. Washington

Answer 12

an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.

Question 13

W. E. B. Du Bois

Answer 13

an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist

Question 14

disenfranchisement

Answer 14

the restriction of suffrage of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing a person exercising the right to vote.

Question 15

Literacy Test

Answer 15

a voting requirement. The purpose was to exclude persons with minimal literacy, in particular, poor African Americans in the South, from voting.

Question 16

Poll Tax

Answer 16

citizens in some states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election

Question 17

Grandfather clause

Answer 17

a provision in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all future cases.

Question 18

Jim Crow

Answer 18

state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.

Question 19

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 19

landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal”.

Question 20

13th amendment

Answer 20

abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.