US History Test 1

Question 1

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

Reconstruction.

13th Amendment - wanted to use free slaves to help in the Reconstruction of the stouth

Question 2

April 14, 1865

Answer 2

Abe Lincoln is killed in Ford theater by John Wilkes Booth.

Question 3

William Seward

Answer 3

Secretary of State during Lincoln’s presidency.
Attacked in bed and stabbed several times.
SURVIVES!

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

Vice President.

Next to be attacked but the attackers get scared.

Question 5

Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction

Answer 5

1863 - 10% Plan (if 10% of southern states populations must vow to be loyal and to join the union, they’re readmitted)
Plan is very light on southern states

Question 6

Radical Republicans

Answer 6

Do not like Lincoln’s leniency on the Southern States.

Believed that the MAJORITY of the states population should vow in order to rejoin

Question 7

Civil War

Answer 7

(1861-1865)
25% Confederate soldiers died
10% Union soldiers died

Question 8

What was the #1 killer during the Civil War?

Answer 8

Simple disease!

Question 9

Southern Devastation

Answer 9

2/5 of livestock lost
1/2 agg. taken/destroyed
railroads destroyed
industry destroyed
loss of slaves

Question 10

What was the biggest hit to the Southern economy during the Civil War?

Answer 10

Loss of slaves!

Prior to war, South was one of the most wealthy regions in the world.

Question 11

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 11

Andrew Johnson succeeds Lincoln.

Screws up all of Lincoln’s hard work.

Question 12

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 12

Revision of the 10% plan.. MAJORITY of population must vow loyalty to rejoin Union

Question 13

Andrew Johnson’s work

Answer 13

Presidential pardons to majority of political figures/officers of the Confederacy.
Special congressional election in the South to refill the political seats.

Question 14

Black Codes

Answer 14

1865
Former slaves must have documentation or could be arrested.
Freeman restricted to few jobs.
Barred from jury duty/ judicial service.
No possession of firearms.
Slave children could be taken by authorities if they felt living conditions were “unfit”

Question 15

Radical Republicans

Answer 15

Hate Johnson’s ideas
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner- nearly beaten to death for speaking against slavery and Southern pride

Question 16

“They’d line up the high ranking officers and political figures from the Civil War and shoot them in the head for treason” -Who?

Answer 16

Radical Republicans

Question 17

Radical Reconstruction

Answer 17

Gets rid of Special congressional election and strips peoples’ powers.

Question 18

Radical Reconstruction - Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 18

Ensure rights/ education/ safety for former slaves.
Helped find employment, homes, education.
Schools set up for former slave children.

Question 19

Radical Reconstruction - Civil Rights Act (1866)

Answer 19

Direct response to Black Codes.

Question 20

Civil Rights Act (1866) detail

Answer 20

Citizenship - freedman are citizens and shall receive same rights as all others.
Black Codes ILLEGAL
Federal government has the power for the first time after the civil war!

Question 21

14 Amendment (1868)

Answer 21

Guarantees EVERY CITIZEN equality under the law.
State gov’s cannot violate civil rights of their citizens.
States must support A.Amer rights to vote or they cant rejoin the union.
MUST ratify this amendment to rejoin the union.

Question 22

Reconstruction Acts (1867-68)

Answer 22

Congress divided South into 5 military districts until they rejoined the Union.
States must guarantee black male suffrage or they cannot rejoin Union.
Federal government approval of new state constitutions before rejoining.
States MUST ratify 14th amendment.

Question 23

Military Reconstruction (1870-1877)

Answer 23

Era of redemption
Southern whites thought of the time as the “Tragic Era”
“Lost Cause”

Question 24

Lost Cause

Answer 24

Southern whites trying to be proud of their loss. “we were noble, fought for what we believed in blah blah.”
Only reason they lost was because North had more money, supplies and men

Question 25

Tragic Era

Answer 25

Southern slaves had power for a while.
Yankee takeover
Slaves have jobs of authority.

Question 26

Physical Reconstruction

Answer 26

N. money and Radical Republicans (65-77) sent to rebuild railroads, bridges, colleges
Agriculture reborn/reconstructed in the South