Unit 1 Topic 1

Question 0

What was black freedom

Answer 0

To read

To start families

Question 1

How was the south devastated after civil war?

Answer 1

• land destruction
• Economic destruction
• human destruction
• governmental destruction
• southern future

Question 2

What was southern freedom

Answer 2

Own slaves

To own land

Question 3

13th amendment

Answer 3

Legally abolish Slavery

Question 4

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 4

To help former slaves
Adjust to freedom
Find them jobs
Teach them to read

Question 5

40 acres and a mule

Answer 5

Give land from former southerners to former slaves

Question 6

What were Lincoln’s plans

Answer 6

Priority: reunification

1) general forgiveness 
2) 10% of population swore alliance 
3) no mention of voting rights to freedmen 
4) three states already followed requirements

Question 7

Wade-Davis bill (1864)

Answer 7

To punish the south

1) military rule
2) 50% pledge loyalty
3) abolish slavery
4) former confederate leaders have no voting rights
5) freedman can vote

Question 8

Black codes

Answer 8

Don’t let blacks
carry alcohol
Marry whites
Vote

Question 9

Share cropping

Answer 9

Blacks share part of land paying rent with white owner and can’t leave until debt is paid.
Aka slavery all over again

Question 10

14th amendment (1866)

Answer 10

Defined citizenship
Outlined voting rights for blacks and former confederates

“Equal protection” clause
Ratification necessary to rejoin union

Question 11

Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Answer 11

1) rejected reconstruction governors
2) military rule in the south
3) harsher terms to rejoin; 50%
4) vetoed but then veto overridden

Question 12

15th amendment

Answer 12

1) can’t deny vote based on race

2) assures that many southern states won’t be dominated by whites anymore

Question 13

Tenure of office act (1867)

Answer 13

1: requires a president to get approval from congress before firing people from his cabin
2; to limit Johnson’s power

Question 14

Scalawags

Answer 14

Southerners who had sympathy with the north

Question 15

Carpetbaggers

Answer 15

Someone who went from north to south to assume government positions

Question 16

Election of 1868

Answer 16

• Ulysses s. Grant (republican) war hero
• Horatio Seymour (democrat)

Ulysses won

Question 17

What happened during grants presidency ?

Answer 17

• Corruption
• panic of 1873
• support for reconstruction fades

Question 18

Panic of 1873

Answer 18

Depression
Businesses closed
Unemployment

Question 19

Support for reconstruction fades

Answer 19

1) northern republicans views
2) thought they did all they could for south
3) slowly Southerners went back to old ways/ back in control
4) through intimidation southerners forced black men to vote for who they wanted
5) kkk terrorized blacks to vote for former confederates
6) by 1874 most states were controlled with the same mindset as the confederacy

Question 20

Election of 1876

Answer 20

• Rutherford b. Hayes (republican)
  ~pro: helped win civil war
• Samuel Tilden (democrat)
  ~pro: can get rid of corruption

Tilden “won”

Question 21

Compromise of 1877

Answer 21

1) Tilden gives up
2) u.s army troops have to go home
3) hays pulls them out of south
4) freedman won’t be protected
5) reconstruction comes to an end