Social Study Reconstruction

Question 1

What is the definition of reconstruction?

Answer 1

The act of rebuilding former confederate states and restoring them to the United States of america

Question 2

What is the ten percent plan?

Answer 2

To receive amnesty, southerner had to do two things. Swear an oath to loyalty and agree that slavery was illegal

Question 3

What is the wade Davis bill?

Answer 3

The congress (not the president) would be responsible for reconstruction

Question 4

What is johnson’s plan?

Answer 4

Majority of the voters to pledge loyalty to the US. Ratify 13th amendment= banned slavery

Question 5

What is the 13th amendment?

Answer 5

The US constitutional amendment that ended slavery

Question 6

What is the 14th amendment?

Answer 6

The US constitutional amendment that provided equal protection under the law and due process for citizens of the United States

Question 7

What is the 15th amendment?

Answer 7

The US constitutional amendment that said all male of legal age (21 at that time) could vote. This did not included female of ethnicity. Females did not get the right to vote until the passage of the 19th amendment in 1919

Question 8

What is the black code?

Answer 8

Laws passed in the south that discriminated against freedmen. They included such laws as curfews, various laws regulating work and pay, and other restrictions on freed African Americans

Question 9

Who were the radical republicans?

Answer 9

Wanted federal government to force change in the south

Question 10

What is the civil rights act of 1866

Answer 10

Provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans

Question 11

What is impeachment?

Answer 11

The process used by legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official

Question 12

What are poll taxes?

Answer 12

They are special tax people had to pay before they could vote

Question 13

What are literacy tests?

Answer 13

To test African Americans before voting and if they passed they could vote (a way to stop African Americans from voting

Question 14

What is the grandfather clause?

Answer 14

A qualification set for voting (after the passage of the 15th amendment) in many southern states. It said that you could vote ONLY if your grandfather had been able to vote. It was one way of excluding freed slaves from voting

Question 15

What is segregation?

Answer 15

Is the forced separation of whites and African American in public places

Question 16

What is share cropping?

Answer 16

(Or sharing the crop) landowners provided the land, tools, and supplies, and share choppers provide the labor

Question 17

What is carpetbagger?

Answer 17

A northerner who came south during reconstruction to profit from the chaos and confusion. Generally disliked throughout the south

Question 18

What is scalawags?

Answer 18

They are white southern republicans. The south dislike them because they feel that they betrayed the south for voting for the Republican Party

Question 19

Why did the united states have to reconstruct after the war?

Answer 19

The south was in ruins and they need to reunite with the north as a whole nation together

Question 20

What did the freed men’s bureau do to help the freed people in the south?

Answer 20

They helped many freedmen and poor southerner they distributed food and provided education and legal help for freedmen

Question 21

What did the reconstruction act do to the southern states?

Answer 21

It made the southern states start anew and abandoned their belief of slavery

Question 22

Who were the ku klux klan? What did they do? Who were they against and why were they against them?

Answer 22

The ku klux klan are white southerners who are a secret to society and opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage for African Americans. They wore robes and disguises to hide their identities and attacked or even murdered African americans, white republican voters, public official usually at night. They opposed the civil rights and disliked African Americans

Question 23

What are the Jim Crow laws and what did they do to African Americans? List a few of the Jim Crow laws

Answer 23

Jim Crow laws enforced segregation. They caused African Americans to suffer through segregation. A few of the Jim Crow laws are ………

Question 24

What happened in the court case plessy v. Ferguson?

Answer 24

It was a court case about segregation and the Supreme Court voted against plessy and said segregation was allowed.

Question 25

Who was Andrew Jackson? And what problems did he face during the reconstruction period?

Answer 25

He was the Vice President under Lincoln, he became president when Lincoln was assassinated. He was not well liked and Congress’s began an impeachment process, but he was found not guilty and remained in office

Question 26

What districts were the south broken into?

Answer 26

They south divided into 5 district controlled by a YS military commander.

Question 27

What problems were facing the south after the civil war?

Answer 27

The south had to be divided into 5 district with us military commander watching over them. They would also struggle to fix themselves

Question 28

How did life change for the freed slave?

Answer 28

Slaves were finally free but they were alone and needed the freedmen’s bureau’s help and they were segregated and life was tough for them since they are facing something new