Reconstruction Vocab

Question 1

Redeemer

Answer 1

politicians who aimed to “redeem” or reclaim the South from northern domination

Question 2

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer 2

Ohio Republican and respected Union general who ran and won 1876 election

Question 3

Compromise of 1877

Answer 3

commission of five senators, five representatives, and five supreme court justices where Hayes was elected president

Question 4

scalawag

Answer 4

white men who had been locked out of pre-Civil war politics by their healthier neighbors

Question 5

carpetbaggers

Answer 5

northern migrants that came to the South who carried carpet-cloth suitcases

Question 6

segregation

Answer 6

separation of races, such as in schools

Question 7

integration

Answer 7

combining the races, such as in schools

Question 8

sharecropping

Answer 8

a landowner dictated the crop and provided poor black and white people with a place to live, in return for a share of the harvested crop

Question 9

share-tenancy

Answer 9

like sharecropping except the farmworker chose what crop to plant and bought his own supplies

Question 10

tenant farming

Answer 10

where the tenant pays cash rent to the landowner and is free to chose and manage his own crop and where he lived

Question 11

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 11

clan members who caused violence to any kind of movement for African American freedom

Question 12

Enforcement Acts

Answer 12

made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizens right to vote

Question 13

Reconstruction

Answer 13

when federal government struggled with how to turn the eleven southern states to the Union, rebuild the South’s ruined economy, and promote the rights of former slaves

Question 14

Radical Republicans

Answer 14

insisted the Confederates had committed crimes by enslaving African Americans and by detangling the war

Question 15

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 15

required a majority of a state’s prewar voters to swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration can begin

Question 16

Freedman’s Bereau

Answer 16

provided food, clothing, healthcare and education for both white and black refugees in the South

Question 17

Andrew Johnson

Answer 17

vice president who took over Lincoln’s place after his assassination

Question 18

black code

Answer 18

laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers

Question 19

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 19

created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them

Question 20

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 20

guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens

Question 21

impeach

Answer 21

to charge with wrongdoing in office

Question 22

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 22

forbidding any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude