Section 1, 2, 3, 4 Test 11/8/22

Question 1

Whats a Freedmen

Answer 1

a freed slav

Question 2

What was the reconstruction

Answer 2

Reconstruction of the South

Question 3

What is the ten percent plan

Answer 3

A reconstruction program proposed by President Lincoln that would allow Confed states to establish new state governments after 10% of their male population took loyalty oaths

Question 4

What is Amnesty

Answer 4

a pardon

Question 5

What is the Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 5

A reconstruction program proposed by the radical republicans that would allow Confed states to establish new states governments after 50% of their male population took loyalty oaths

Question 6

What is the Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 6

An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees. They helped freed blacks and displaced southerners

Question 7

What were 2 problems after the war

Answer 7

unemployment and economy

Question 8

What did the 13th Amendment do

Answer 8

abolished slavery

Question 9

What were the Black Codes

Answer 9

Laws that tried to limit the freedom of Africans

Question 10

What did congress do to combat the Black Codes

Answer 10

They passed the Civil Rights act

Question 11

What were the 2 main goals of the Radical Republicans

Answer 11

Break the power of wealthy planer and ensure freedmen the right to vote

Question 12

Who lead the Radical Republicans in the House

Answer 12

Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania

Question 13

Who lead the Radical Republicans in the Senate

Answer 13

Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate

Question 14

What was Radical Reconstruction

Answer 14

When the radical republicans gained control of the reconstruction of the south

Question 15

What was the Reconstruction Acts

Answer 15

Acts that set forth the requirements for the South to be admitted into the Union

Question 16

What did the 15th amendment do

Answer 16

Gave everyone equal voting rights

Question 17

What is someone who wants the south to change as little as possible

Answer 17

A Conservative

Question 18

What is a name for northerners who came to the south after the war

Answer 18

a carpetbagger

Question 19

What was a name given to southerners who supported the republicans

Answer 19

Scalawag

Question 20

What was the Ku Klux Klan

Answer 20

a secret society that wanted to stop Africans from taking office and terrorized them

Question 21

What is a sharecropper

Answer 21

people who worked land owned by others in exchange for part of the crops at harvest time

Question 22

Who killed Abraham Lincoln

Answer 22

John Wilkes Booth

Question 23

Who followed Lincoln

Answer 23

Andrew Johnson

Question 24

What is the 14th amendment

Answer 24

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Equal Protection and Citizenship Rights)

Question 25

What were the 2 approaches to reconstruction

Answer 25

presidential and congressional

Question 26

What was the freedmen’s bureau’s greatest success

Answer 26

Education

Question 27

What president had his vetos repeadetly overridden in congress

Answer 27

Andrew Johnson

Question 28

What were the Jim Crow Laws

Answer 28

southern state laws the sagregated blacks

Question 29

What president was almost impeached by one vote

Answer 29

Andrew Johnson

Question 30

Which Supreme Court decision said segregation was not against the constitution

Answer 30

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 31

What ended the Reconstruction era

Answer 31

The Compromise of 1877

Question 32

Which president ended reconstruction

Answer 32

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 33

What became popular in the south after reconstruction

Answer 33

Sharecropping

Question 34

Where was Linclon assasinated

Answer 34

Ford Theatre

Question 35

Who won the election of 1868 and 72

Answer 35

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 36

Who won the election of 1876

Answer 36

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 37

What did the Amnesty Act of 1872 do

Answer 37

restored the right to vote for nearly all southerners

Question 38

When did segregation come into play in the South?

Answer 38

With the Jim Crow Laws and Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 39

What were the Jim Crow Laws

Answer 39

They enforced racial segregation

Question 40

Which lawsuit challenged segregation in 1896

Answer 40

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 41

What lawsuit said blacks were separate but equal

Answer 41

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 42

What was a weakness in the 13th amendment

Answer 42

it made an exception in the case of those citizens found guilty of a criminal offense

Question 43

What was the weakness of the 14th amendment

Answer 43

It failed to protect africans

Question 44

What was the weakness of the 15th amendment

Answer 44

Literacy tests

Question 45

How did they try to stop africans from voting

Answer 45

Literacy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause

Question 46

What was poll tax

Answer 46

a fixed tax to vote

Question 47

What is a grandfather clause

Answer 47

a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation

Question 48

What was “New South”

Answer 48

The economic shift of the south after the civil war

Question 49

What unwritten and informally arranged agreement settled the 1876 election

Answer 49

Compromise of 1877