reconstruction vocab

Question 1

lincolns Vice President becomes president when Abraham died he’s a democrat from Tennessee.
1st to be impeached.

Answer 1

Andrew Johnson

Question 2

a government agency, helps blacks make the transition to freemen

Answer 2

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 3

want to punish the south by help black people & make sure south is never successful

Answer 3

radical republicans

Question 4

republican congress plan
the south had to
-admit session was not right
-anybody who helped the confederacy did not vote
-majority of people in state to take iron clad oath

Answer 4

Wade-Davis Bill 1870-71

Question 5

southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

Answer 5

black codes

Question 6

abolish slavery

Answer 6

thirteenth amendment

Question 7

gave blacks us citizenship

Answer 7

fourteenth amendment

Question 8

black males can vote (granted suffrage)

Answer 8

fifteenth amendment

Question 9

leader of radical republicans

he wants to give every black person “40 acres & a mule”

Answer 9

Thaddeaus Stevens

Question 10

confederate divided to 5 general districts each have a general in charge.
Tennessee does not experience this

Answer 10

military reconstruction act

Question 11

the first African-american senator.

voted in Wade-Davis Bill didn’t let white votes cause it was if they helped confederation

Answer 11

Hiram Revels

Question 12

Derogatory term for pro-Union southerners whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south.

from the south

support republican reconstruction

Answer 12

scalawags

Question 13

support republican reconstruction

from the north

Answer 13

carpetbaggers

Question 14

used to keep blacks in their place

lynching in public

used to keep them from voting

Answer 14

KKK

Question 15

banned clan membership prohibited the use of intimidation to prevent blacks from voting & gave the us military the authority to enforce the acts

Answer 15

force acts of 1870/71

Question 16

try to limit powers of president

Answer 16

tenure of office acts

Question 17

ended the reconstruction era. solved crises of elections of 1876

Answer 17

compromise of 1877

Question 18

tax you need to pay to vote

whites get mail card to pay with receipt black people don’t

Answer 18

poll tax

Question 19

according to southern states to vote you must know how to read

Answer 19

literacy test

Question 20

for the white people who couldn’t vote.

if your ancestor voted before civil war you didn’t have to take the literacy test.

Answer 20

grandfather clause

Question 21

made segregation legal in state

“separate but equal”

Answer 21

plessy v ferguson

Question 22

enforce segregation for public facilities

Answer 22

Jim Crow laws

Question 23

1883.

gives the individual power to discriminate in their private facilities.

Answer 23

civil rights cases

Question 24

secret society in Louisiana used violence to maintain white control
not kkk

Answer 24

knights of white camelia

Question 25

starts 1865-1877

everything in south changes

Answer 25

reconstruction