The Reconstruction

Question 1

When was Reconstruction (the years)?

Answer 1

1865 - 1877

Question 2

Andrew Johnson: compare/contrast him to Lincoln. Why did Lincoln choose him as his running mate in 1864?

Answer 2

He wished to send a message of national unity in his re-election campaign. Johnson was very racist, and they were both unionists

Question 3

What’s the difference between Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867?) and Congressional Reconstruction (1867-1877?)?

Answer 3

Presidential Reconstruction was the approach that promoted more leniency towards the South regarding plans for readmission to the Union. Congressional Reconstruction blamed the South and wanted retribution for causing the Civil War.

Question 4

Where was grant from?

Answer 4

He was originally from Ohio and lived in Illinois prior to the Civil War

Question 5

What was Grants party when running?

Answer 5

Ran as a Republican

Question 6

what was grant during the civil war?

Answer 6

He was the head general for a time during the Civil War

Question 7

what was Grant like?

Answer 7

He had a reputation for both smoking and drinking

Question 8

what was the difference between the way people used to see him vs now?

Answer 8

In terms of President ranking lists, Grant was at the bottom when the rankings first started, but is now ranked in the middle or the top half of presidents

Question 9

What was the group that grant tried to stop?

Answer 9

he did a lot to crush the KKK as president

Question 10

what group voted and supported Grant the most?

Answer 10

The African Americans

Question 11

What were the results of the 1872 election?

Answer 11

Electoral vote: Grant got 286 electoral votes Greeley got 66 electoral votes
Popular vote: Grant 56% Greeley 44%

Question 12

What was controversial about Alexander Stephens? Who was he and what happened to him after the Civil War?

Answer 12

He was the vice president of the CSA, but he still became a congressman in the USA after the war.

Question 13

Freedmen’s Bureau;

Answer 13

an agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.

Question 14

“black codes”

Answer 14

Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of african americans

Question 15

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 15

A hate group against African Americans that did many things to threaten blacks such as burning crosses, and sometimes even commiting murder. Other targets included, Jewish people, those who have immigrated to the United States, and members of the LGBTQ community.

Question 16

13th Amendment

Answer 16

abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories

Question 17

14th Amendment

Answer 17

Granted citizenship to all people who were born in the U.S. - including former enslaved people- Guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws”

Question 18

15th Amendment

Answer 18

Granted african american men the right to vote

Question 19

Unalienable Rights

Answer 19

God given rights, the gov can’t take them away without due process.

Question 20

Radical Republicans

Answer 20

More extreme than normal Republicans

Question 21

scalawags

Answer 21

term for white southerners who supported the federal plan from northern reconstruction for their own gain

Question 22

carpetbaggers and the destruction of Southern forests

Answer 22

Northerners who took advantage of the resources in the south to get rich (like the trees from the forests)

Question 23

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 23

a train route across the United States that was finished in 1869

Question 24

Government subsidies

Answer 24

When the government gives people money to do something

Question 25

Northwest Passages

Answer 25

A passage from Europe to Asia. The transcontinental railroad made it faster to get there (it was an easier route).

Question 26

Who was Hiram Revels?

Answer 26

He was the 1st African American senator

Question 27

What is impeachment?

Answer 27

If a president is impeached they are charged with something by the house. If convicted by ⅔ vote of the senate, the president is removed from office.

Question 28

How many presidents have been impeached?

Answer 28

Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump(twice) (3 presidents)

Question 29

How many have been removed by the Senate following impeachment?

Answer 29

0

Question 30

Why would the government subsidies cause bad incentives for railroad companies? And even contribute to the depression of 1873?

Answer 30

The railroads were not made the most efficient way because railroad workers wanted more money.

Question 31

what was the big deal about the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 31

TCR cut coast to coast travel from 6 months to 10 days!!!

Question 32

Why did reconstruction end in 1877?

Answer 32

Things like schools and road repair cost money, which meant taxes, which made republican governments (made republicans very unpopular. White southerners could not accept african americans exercising basic civil rights, holding office for voting

Question 33

Which election did the bargain of 1877 settle?

Answer 33

1876 U.S. Presidential election

Question 34

What did the Republicans get in the bargain?

Answer 34

They Got hays (the us president)

Question 35

What did the Democrats get in the bargain?

Answer 35

They got the federal troops out of the southern states, and another transcontinental railroad through Texas

Question 36

Even though slavery ended a lot of the same people continued to own the Southern farmland, and slavery was replaced by

Answer 36

sharecropping

Question 37

How was sharecropping different from slavery?

Answer 37

Landowners would provide housing to the sharecroppers, and the sharecroppers would get a portion of their crops (but former slaves still did work)

Question 38

Thaddeus Stephens was a leader of a group in Congress called the…

Answer 38

Radical Republicans

Question 39

… governments in the South claimed that they were saving the southern states from “Northern Republican corruption” and “Black rule”.

Answer 39

Redeemer

Question 40

How was Reconstruction a success?

Answer 40

Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation: by 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.

Question 41

How was it a failure?

Answer 41

The failure to stop violence and protect the political gains of Reconstruction was a policy failure: the U.S. government failed to coordinate and plan to suppress an advancing revolt; failed to deploy enough troops or use the troops with consistency; failed to consider other options to secure the rights of Black Americans; and otherwise failed in its counterinsurgency and counterterrorism policies.

Question 42

when was the presidential reconstruction and congressional reconstruction?

Answer 42

1865 - 1867 - presidential
1867 - 1877 - congressional