Unit 10 Reconstruction

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

Period of rebuilding that nation after Civil War

Question 2

Radical Republicans

Answer 2

Congressional Republicans who wanted to punish the South for the war and give African American citizenship and the right to vote

Question 3

Thaddeus Steven’s

Answer 3

One of the leaders of the radical republicans

Question 4

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 4

Bill passed by congress, and vetoed by President Lincoln, that would have gone congress control of the Reconstruction

Question 5

Andrew Johnson

Answer 5

President after Lincoln’s Assaination

Question 6

Freeman’s Bureau

Answer 6

Government agency that helped former slaves and poor whites by giving out food and clothing and by setting up schools and hospitals

Question 7

Black codes

Answer 7

Laws enacted in many southern states that discriminated against African Americans

Question 8

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 8

Gave citizenship to everyone who is born or naturalized in the United States

Question 9

Impeach

Answer 9

To bring formal charges against a public official for wrongdoing in office

Question 10

Fifteenth amendment

Answer 10

Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote

Question 11

Carpetbagger

Answer 11

Northerner who moved South after the war

Question 12

Scalawag

Answer 12

White southerner who joined the Republican Party

Question 13

Henery Grady

Answer 13

Atlanta, Georgia, newspaper editor who coined term “New South”

Question 14

Hiram Revels

Answer 14

First African American Senator

Question 15

Sharecropping

Answer 15

System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of crops

Question 16

Tenant Farming

Answer 16

Renting land from landowners for cash

Question 17

KKK

Answer 17

Terrorist group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting

Question 18

Panic of 1873

Answer 18

Financial crisis that started an economic depression

Question 19

Redemption

Answer 19

Southern Democrats term for their return to power in the South in the 1870’s

Question 20

Rutherford B Hayes

Answer 20

President who ended the Reconstruction in 1877

Question 21

Samuel J. Tilden

Answer 21

Democratic presidential candidate in 1876

Question 22

Compromise of 1877

Answer 22

The political deal that gave presidency to Hayes and ended Reconstruction

Question 23

Home Rule

Answer 23

Ability to run state governments without the interference of the federal government