Reconstruction Notes

Question 1

What were the three rights that the South wanted?

Answer 1

● Congress wanted to decide major issues
that would affect all the states
● Southern states thought the federal
government wastaking away their rights
● Southern states felt they had the right to
secede

Question 2

What did abolitionists want to abolish?

Answer 2

Slavery

Question 3

Did Southern States depend on slavery and labor?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What did supporters of slavery think about expansion?

Answer 4

They wanted to spread slavery, and bring their life style with them.

Question 5

What was Kansas’s nickname and why?

Answer 5

It was nicknamed the “bleeding Kansas” because a lot of violence occurred here.

Question 6

What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?

Answer 6

Kansas Nebraska Act allowed residents in
Kansas to vote whether a state would be a
slave or free state

Question 7

Republican Party had who?

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

Lincoln being elected helped spark what?

Answer 8

The civil war

Question 9

What did people think of Lincoln?

Answer 9

They thought he was against slavery

Question 10

The South decided that they wanted what?

Answer 10

They wanted to leave the US.

Question 11

What state left first? How many followed after?

Answer 11

South Carolina, than 11 more states left as well

Question 12

Definition of Reconstruction

Answer 12

The rebuilding of the former Confederate States after the Civil War.

Question 13

What were the lasting impacts of the key people? What were their plans for Reconstruction? (Abraham Lincoln)

Answer 13

Abraham Lincoln:his plan called for reconciliation. He wanted to preserve the Union instead of
punishing the South

Question 14

What were the lasting impacts of the key people? What were their plans for Reconstruction? (Robert E. Lee)

Answer 14

Robert E. Lee: he urged Southerners to reconcile at the end of the war and reunite as Americans
when some wanted to continue fighting

Question 15

What were the lasting impacts of the key people? What were their plans for reconstruction? (Frederick Douglass)

Answer 15

Frederick Douglass: he fought for the adoption of Constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting
rights. He was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all.

Question 16

What were the lasting impacts of the key people? What were their plans for Reconstruction? (Carpetbaggers from the North)

Answer 16

Carpetbaggers from the North: white Northerners who moved South and took advantage of the South
during Reconstruction. Southerners resented them.

Question 17

What were the lasting impacts of the key people? What were their plans for Reconstruction? (Andrew Johnson)

Answer 17

Andrew Johnson: he urged for a speedy recovery during Reconstruction. He adopted policies that
returned the South to the Union as quickly as possible. He gave amnesty and pardon to former
confederate leaders. He believed southern states should decide what was best for them, which
ultimately led to Black Codes

Question 18

13th amendment

Answer 18

Abolished slavery

Question 19

14th amendment

Answer 19

Granted citizenship to those who were born in the US

Question 20

15th Amendment

Answer 20

Granted all men to be able to vote

Question 21

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 21

A law to stop black codes. Troops can enforce the law.

Question 22

1. How did Reconstruction end?

Answer 22

Reconstruction ended in 1877 as a result of a compromise over the outcome of the election of 1876.
Ultimately, Reconstruction ended when federal troops were removed from the south.

Question 23

2. What was the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 23

A majority of white Southerners agreed to support the Northerner Rutherford B. Hayes if he agreed
to the Compromise of 1877. The compromise ended Reconstruction and African Americans were
abandoned when federal troops were removed.

Question 24

3. What were Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 24

Rights that African Americans gained were lost through Jim Crow Laws. There were unequal
opportunities in education, housing, work, and government

Question 25

What stopped African Americans from voting?

Answer 25

Literacy test - This test was used by southern states to prevent African Americans from
voting. It required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution.
Poll tax - required voters to pay a fee each time they voted. Freedmen could rarely afford to
vote.
Grandfather clauses - These laws state that if a voter’s father or grandfather had been eligible
to vote in 1867, the voter did not have to take a literacy test. No African American in the
South could vote before 1868

Question 26

When did native Americans become citizens?

Answer 26

1924

Question 27

What did the Plessy Vs. Ferguson say?

Answer 27

Separate but equal

Question 28

What are black codes?

Answer 28

Southern states adopted Black Codes with the purpose of restricting the freedom of Freedmen.
Examples include: no weapons, can not testify against a white man, can be arrested without a job if
over 18, cannot be out past curfew.