Reconstruction of the South

Question 1

The South was destroyed in the aftermath of the Civil War, there was mass devastation

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Ten percent plan

Answer 2

10% of the state’s population had to pledge allegiance to the Union, created by Lincoln.

Question 3

Wade David Bill

Answer 3

Congressional bill that required white men to take the loyalty oath
Vetoed by Lincoln

Question 4

Two problems that arose after Lincoln’s assassination

Answer 4

How to restore the south into the union and How to integrate the newly freed African Americans

Question 5

Provided food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, and education for former slaves and poor whites in the south. (1865)

Answer 5

Freedmen’s bureau

Question 6

Lincoln’s plan was not more lenient than what congress wanted (amnesty plan and ten percent plan)

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Johnson’s plan was lenient but excluded the wealthy and high ranking confederates from voting and public office

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Who attempted to take control of reconstruction because they were angry at Johnson

Answer 8

Radical Republicans

Question 9

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 9

Forbade states from passing discriminatory laws
Vetoed by Johnson but was overridden by congress

Question 10

14th Amendment

Answer 10

Equal protection under the law for all U.S. citizens, born or naturalized, Amendment also supported the minority vote

Question 11

Johnson attempted to end the freedmen’s bureau

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Grant was the 18th president and a Republican. He was elected in 1868, he was a former General in the Civil War, more than 500,000 southern A.A. Voted

Answer 12

True

Question 13

15th Amendment

Answer 13

Stated that no one could keep people from voting due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 14

Scalawags

Answer 14

White southerners who joined the Republican Party

Question 15

Carpetbaggers

Answer 15

Northerners who moved to the south after the war

Question 16

Enforcement Acts

Answer 16

Allowed the government to use the military and prosecute guilty KKK members

Question 17

Sharecropping

Answer 17

Landowners would divide their land up then assign it to a head of a household, along with tools and seed
Idea was that the A.A. Would keep a small share of the money but the rest would go to the landowners

Question 18

Tenant Farming

Answer 18

The tenants rented out a house and land but they owned the crops. They would use the profit from the crops to pay off the rental debt.

Question 19

Compromise of 1877

Answer 19

It would put an end to the reconstruction period by removing all union troops and allow Democrats a more involved role in the government
If Rutherford B. Hayes took office and not Samuel Tilden then the Southern Democrats wanted a compromise