TEST CARDs unit 1 The reconstruction

Question 1

The black codes were:

Answer 1

laws some southern states designed to maintain white supremacy by keeping freed people impoverished and in debt

Question 2

carpetbaggers were:

Answer 2

term used for northerners working in the South during Reconstruction; it implied that
these were opportunists who came south for economic or political gain

Question 3

The Compromise of 1877 was:

Answer 3

the agreement between Republicans and Democrats, after the contested election of
1876, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for withdrawing the last of
the federal troops from the South

Question 4

the crop-lien system was :

Answer 4

a loan system in which store owners extended credit to farmers for the purchase of
goods in exchange for a portion of their future crops

Question 5

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 5

the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, which was created in
1865 to ease blacks’ transition from slavery to freedom

Question 6

Ironclad Oath

Answer 6

an oath that the Wade-Davis Bill required a majority of voters and government officials in
Confederate states to take; it involved swearing that they had never supported the Confederacy

Question 7

Klu Klux Klan

Answer 7

a white vigilante organization that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of
stopping Reconstruction

Question 8

Radical Republican

Answer 8

northern Republicans who contested Lincoln’s treatment of Confederate states and
proposed harsher punishments

Question 9

The reconstruction

Answer 9

the twelve-year period after the Civil War in which the rebel Southern states were
integrated back into the Union

Question 10

Redeemers

Answer 10

a term used for Southerner whites determined to roll back the gains of the reconstruction
scalawags-a pejorative term used for southern whites who supported Reconstruction
sharecropping-a crop-lien system in which people paid rent on land they farmed (but did not own) with
the crops they grew

Question 11

ten percent plan

Answer 11

Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, which required only 10 percent of the 1860 voters in
Confederate states to take an oath of allegiance to the Union

Question 12

Union Leagues

Answer 12

fraternal groups loyal to the Union and the Republican Party that became political and
civic centers for blacks in former Confederate states