Reconstruction Test Flashcards
What is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land?
Sharecropping
What is an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence?
Resurgence
What is a person who takes it upon himself or herself to punish others?
Vigilante
What is to exclude a group of people purposefully?
Disenfranchise
What is an exam given as a requiste for voting, Literacy tests were given to discourage blacks from voting?
Literacy Test
What is a fee people had to pay in order to vote. This practice was meant to discourage black form voting?
Poll Tax
What is a law stating you could not vote unless your grandfather voted before 1864.This practice was used to discourage blacks from voting?
Grandfather Clause
What is the period after the Civil War when the south was re-built; also the Federal program to rebuild it.
Reconstruction
What is a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War seeking political or economic advantage?
Carpetbagger
What is a white person in the South who worked with the federal government during he Reconstruction period after the Civil War?
Scalawag
What is the law imposed by military forces when the regular civil authority has broken down?
Martial Law
What is a period of time characterized by wealth but not moral substance?
Gilded Age
What is a very wealthy person?
Tycoon
What is the state of wandering with no permanent place to live?
Vagrancy
How did many Congressmen feel about Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
Many Congressmen felt that Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan was too weak.
What plan did the Congressmen propose as an alternative? Give the details of this plan.
Congressmen proposed the Wade-Davis Bill as an alternative. The Wade-Davis Bill said that Confederate states could come back into the Union if 50% or more of the people in that state took an oath saying that they never supported the Confederacy.