Unit 1: Reconstruction And Expansion

Question 1

Appomattox Court House Virginia

Answer 1

Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at the court house in Virginia

Question 2

13th Amendment

Answer 2

Permanently abolished slavery

Question 3

Freedmen’s Bureau

The bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands

Answer 3

Congress established new federal agency to oversee transition from slavery to a system of free labor in the South

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

became president after Lincoln was assassinated
a unionist and before the war was a democrat
had his own vision of reunification amongst the states

Question 5

what where the goals of Reconstruction and was it successful?

Answer 5

Reconstruction era was the time following the civil war of rebuilding the United States
Goals: hold the nation together and have African Americans be considered citizens
the reconstruction was not a complete success

Question 6

Johnson’s policy towards confederates and former slaves

Answer 6

towards former slaves he cared little about the civil and political rights to the newly freed slaves

Question 7

what effect did the black codes have on the development of reconstruction and the lives of freed people after the war?

Answer 7

it hindered African Americans and they struggled to establish new terms of labor and landownership and fashion themselves as citizens to their communities and nation

Question 8

Johnson’s policy towards confederates and former slaves

Answer 8

towards former slaves he cared little about the civil and political rights to the newly freed slaves; allowed black codes to happen
towards confederates he pardoned all but a few participants in the rebellion, his policies favored unionists,

Question 9

economic value of the freed slaves

Answer 9

the value of slaves was roughly 3 billion dollars

Question 10

special field order #15

Answer 10

It allowed freed people to settle on some 400,000 acres of land confiscated from Confederate sympathizers
General Sherman issued it

Question 11

14th amendment

Answer 11

which established that former slaves were citizens of the United States and insisted that states could not violate the basic rights of any person living within them

Question 12

Johnson vs. Republican Congress

Answer 12

republicans embraced Johnson at first but many became concerned about his leniency towards former confederates

Question 13

former slaves and slave owners negotiating free labor

Answer 13

slaves point out that they had been forced for labor without compensation, they argued that the least the government could do was give them a small amount of land for recognition. Johnson was unsympathetic towards them

Question 14

why were the reconstruction acts of 1867 and the 15th amendment considered radical?

Answer 14

they were almost considered radical because both were putting in effort to help slaves from being treated wrongly by owners and become citizens

Question 15

Radical reconstruction

Answer 15

The reconstruction acts, often called Radical Reconstruction, meshed with freed people’s ongoing efforts to wrench themselves out of coercive relationships with their former owners and become full-fledged citizens.

Question 16

union league

Answer 16

an organization hired local leaders, many of them freed slaves, to travel through the rural South and mobilize people to vote

Question 17

southern republican party

Answer 17

the southern Republican Party that stood the best chance of diminishing the power of the planter class
chartered and funded black and white schools
some places passed laws to integrate public places

Question 18

white unionists (scalawags)

Answer 18

initially an important part of the Republican coalition, gradually drifted toward the Democrats, choosing a race-based alliance with wealthy whites over a more class-driven connection with black voters

Question 19

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 19

secret society that nudged the white unionists towards the democrats

Question 20

15th amendment

Answer 20

prohibiting states from discriminating against voters on the basis of race, color, or former slave status, and giving Congress power of enforcement.

Question 21

what progressive laws did the Republican Party pass that changed the United States drastically?

Answer 21

Homestead act, Pacific Railroad, the Greenback and Land Grant Colleges

Question 22

Homestead Act

Answer 22

was an attempt to help families settle public land

Question 23

Pacific Railroad

Answer 23

granted millions of acres of government land to private railroad companies

Question 24

the Greenback

Answer 24

national currency and a system of national banks created

Question 25

Land Grant colleges

Answer 25

provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and mechanic arts”

Question 26

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 26

white soldiers murdered unarmed Native women and children in actions that would today be labeled genocide

Question 27

Native Americans and the Confederacy

Answer 27

Most army commanders had attempted to treat white civilians in the Confederacy according to the laws of war. They accorded Indians no such respect

Question 28

peace policy

Answer 28

because the government’s policies towards Native Americans were too brutal and expensive, gov. hired Protestant missionaries to work as Indian agents on reservations and focused on urging Native Americans to leave their traditional cultures behind and accept family farming, public education, and Christianity

Question 29

Ku Klux Klan strategy

Answer 29

their strategy was violence, they threatened to kill, beat rape, and murder for social and economic ends

Question 30

Home Rule

Answer 30

organized through the democratic party, they wanted to take back control of their state

Question 31

why did the republican party retreat from reconstruction in the 1870s?

Answer 31

as abolitionists aged, rising generation of party leaders was wealthier and more interested in promoting economic growth than in undoing the legacies of slavery