Reconstruction test Flashcards
What is an “abolitionist?
Someone who wants to get rid of slavery
To “secede” is to–
to leave
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South carolina
What order gave freedom to slaves in the southern states?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was “Scott’s Great Snake” / The Anaconda Plan?
Military strategy
What did the Confederacy use to fight the Union Blockade?
Confederate steamer/ blockade runners
Abraham Lincoln
president
Jefferson Davis
president
Robert e Lee
confederate general
Ulysses s grant
union general
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
fort Sumter
Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?
Union victory
What happened at the Appomattox Courthouse?
General Robert E. Lee, commander of all Confederate forces, surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Juneteenth?
A day to show respect to feeded slaves
What was reconstruction?
It was a period of time in which the United States was trying to bring the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.
What was Lincoln’s plan?
required that former Confederates take an oath pledging allegiance to the Union and accepting the end of slavery.
What was Johnson’s plan?
gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
What was the Radical Republican’s plan?
The Radicals were known for their opposition to slavery,
What was the 13th Amendment
freed slaves
What was the 14th Amendment?
gave citizenship
What was the 15th Amendment?
gave men the right to vote
Who was a carpetbagger?
a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War.
Who was a scalawag?
A white southerner who supported the federal plan of reconstruction
Who were the freedmen?
former African slaves emancipated during and after the American Civil War by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
What was created to try and help the newly freed slaves by providing food, clothing, education, and help finding jobs?
An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan and other intimidation groups?
The Klan’s goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern Blacks after the Civil War (1861-65).
How did the compromise of 1877 lead to the end of Reconstruction?
It removed federal troops from the south
In order to rejoin the United States, South Carolina had to rewrite a new __________________.
Constitution
What were Jim Crow laws?
Laws that enforced segregation
What was the name of the riot in a small town in South Carolina that erupted in violence as the community’s African American militia clashed with whites from the surrounding area?
Hamburg massacre
What was the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v Ferguson?
It upheld state imposed jim crow laws
What is the eight box law?
Voters had to put their ballot into the correct box or each position
What is the grandfather clause?
You could vote if your grandfather or father could before the year of 1865
What is a poll tax?
a fee to vote
What is a literacy test?
A test designed to make it harder for African american to vote.
What is gerrymandering?
Drawing boundaries to give one political party the advantage.
