U2L2 Radical Reconstruction

Question 1

What rights did black codes grant?

Answer 1

• African Americans could marry legally

- They could own some kinds of property

Question 2

What were the slave codes really meant for?

Answer 2

To keep freedmen from gaining political or economic power

Question 3

What black codes kept African Americans from gaining power?

Answer 3

• forbade freedman to vote, own guns, or serve in juries
• in some states they were only permitted to work only as servants or farm laborers
• in other states they had to sign contracts for a year’s work (those without contracts could be arrested and sentenced to work on a plantation)

Question 4

Which political party was outraged by the reports of violence against freedmen?

Answer 4

Republicans

Question 5

What did President Johnson do when he got the report by the Joint Committee on Reconstruction?

Answer 5

He did nothing

Fucking bitch

Question 6

What did the Joint Committee on Reconstruction report to the president?

Answer 6

They accused the South of trying to “preserve slavery… as long as possible”

Question 7

What happened when the president ignored the report?

Answer 7

Members of Congress called Radical Republicans vowed to take control of Reconstruction

Question 8

The Radicals were led by ________.

Answer 8

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 9

Radicals Republicans had two main goals. What were they?

Answer 9

1. They wanted to break the power of wealthy planters who had long ruled the South
2. They wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote.

They used legislative reforms, or changed in low to achieve their goals

Question 10

Why did the Radicals need the support of moderate Republicans?

Answer 10

With southerners barred from Congress, Republicans could control both houses

Question 11

What did congress pass to combat the black codes?

Answer 11

Civil Rights Act

Question 12

What did the Civil Rights Act do?

Answer 12

It gave citizenship to African Americans

Question 13

Why did the Republicans propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

Answer 13

They feared the Supreme Court might use its power of judicial review to declare the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional

Question 14

What did the Fourteenth amendment state?

Answer 14

It defined citizens as “all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
(Did include most Native Americans)

Question 15

True or False.

Under the 14th Amendment, any state that denied any male citizen aged 21 or older the right to vote would have its representation in Congress reduced.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

When was the 14th amendment ratified?

Answer 16

1868

The 14th amendment was proposed in 1866, but it was not ratified for another two years.

Question 17

During the 1866 election what did President Jackson tell voters to ignore?

Answer 17

Across the North, President Johnson urged voters to reject the Radicals. In the south, he told them to ignore the 14th amendment.

Question 18

What caused most people to vote for the Republicans?

Answer 18

In July, riots in New Orleans killed 34 African Americans who had gathered in support of a convention backing voting rights. The violence convinced many northerners that stronger measures were needed.

Question 19

In 1867, Republicans in Congress prepared to take charge of Reconstruction. The period that followed is often called _________.

Answer 19

Radical Reconstruction

Question 20

Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act in March 1867. What did it do?

Answer 20

It threw out the state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment.

Question 21

What did the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867 do?

Answer 21

It divided the southern states into 5 military districts, each governed by a military general.

Question 22

On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Johnson, but…

Answer 22

in the end, he didn’t get impeached

FAILURES

Question 23

Who did the Republicans nominate for the election? Did he win?

Answer 23

Nominated: Ulysses S. Grant

He won

Question 24

What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 24

It forbade any state to deny any person the right to vote because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.

It was ratified in 1870

Question 25

What motivated Radial Republicans to seek the impeachment of President Johnson?

Answer 25

• President Johnson encouraged former Confederate states to reject the Fourteenth amendment
• President Johnson fired several military commanders who supported Radical Reconstruction

Question 26

Why did the Republicans in Congress feel that the Fourteenth Amendment was necessary?

Answer 26

They worried that the Supreme Court would find the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional