Section 1, 2, 3, 4 Test 11/8/22 Flashcards
Whats a Freedmen
a freed slav
What was the reconstruction
Reconstruction of the South
What is the ten percent plan
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
What is Amnesty
a pardon
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
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
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau
An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees. They helped freed blacks and displaced southerners
What were 2 problems after the war
unemployment and economy
What did the 13th Amendment do
abolished slavery
What were the Black Codes
Laws that tried to limit the freedom of Africans
What did congress do to combat the Black Codes
They passed the Civil Rights act
What were the 2 main goals of the Radical Republicans
Break the power of wealthy planer and ensure freedmen the right to vote
Who lead the Radical Republicans in the House
Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania
Who lead the Radical Republicans in the Senate
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate
What was Radical Reconstruction
When the radical republicans gained control of the reconstruction of the south
What was the Reconstruction Acts
Acts that set forth the requirements for the South to be admitted into the Union
What did the 15th amendment do
Gave everyone equal voting rights
What is someone who wants the south to change as little as possible
A Conservative
What is a name for northerners who came to the south after the war
a carpetbagger
What was a name given to southerners who supported the republicans
Scalawag
What was the Ku Klux Klan
a secret society that wanted to stop Africans from taking office and terrorized them
What is a sharecropper
people who worked land owned by others in exchange for part of the crops at harvest time
Who killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Who followed Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
What is the 14th amendment
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)
What were the 2 approaches to reconstruction
presidential and congressional
What was the freedmen’s bureau’s greatest success
Education
What president had his vetos repeadetly overridden in congress
Andrew Johnson
What were the Jim Crow Laws
southern state laws the sagregated blacks
What president was almost impeached by one vote
Andrew Johnson
Which Supreme Court decision said segregation was not against the constitution
Plessy v. Ferguson
What ended the Reconstruction era
The Compromise of 1877
Which president ended reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
What became popular in the south after reconstruction
Sharecropping
Where was Linclon assasinated
Ford Theatre
Who won the election of 1868 and 72
Ulysses S. Grant
Who won the election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
What did the Amnesty Act of 1872 do
restored the right to vote for nearly all southerners
When did segregation come into play in the South?
With the Jim Crow Laws and Plessy v. Ferguson
What were the Jim Crow Laws
They enforced racial segregation
Which lawsuit challenged segregation in 1896
Plessy v. Ferguson
What lawsuit said blacks were separate but equal
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was a weakness in the 13th amendment
it made an exception in the case of those citizens found guilty of a criminal offense
What was the weakness of the 14th amendment
It failed to protect africans
What was the weakness of the 15th amendment
Literacy tests
How did they try to stop africans from voting
Literacy tests, poll tax, grandfather clause
What was poll tax
a fixed tax to vote
What is a grandfather clause
a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation
What was “New South”
The economic shift of the south after the civil war
What unwritten and informally arranged agreement settled the 1876 election
Compromise of 1877
