Reconstruction

Question 1

What was Andrew johnson impeached for?

Answer 1

For violating the tenure of office act

Question 2

What is the tenure of office act?

Answer 2

Limits the power to remove office-holders

Question 3

What was the outcome of Johnson’s impeachment?

Answer 3

Saved by one vote to not be impeached but had no power in office

Question 4

What is reconstruction?

Answer 4

Uniting the country

Question 5

Reconstruction amendments and what were they

Answer 5

13th: abolish slavery
14th: citizenship
15th: African American men right to vote

Question 6

What were the black codes?

Answer 6

Laws passed by the South to limit African American’s rights

Question 7

Who were the targets of the assassination and who was assigned to them?

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln: john Wilkes booth
Andrew Johnson: George Atzerodt
William Seward: Lewis Powell

Question 8

What law did Homer Plessy break? And what were the consequences if you did it?

Answer 8

Separate car act, $25 fine and 20 days in jail

Question 9

Was Homer Plessy found guilty?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

What is the Poll tax?

Answer 10

Laws passed in South to pay a tax before you could vote?

Question 11

Literacy act?

Answer 11

Laws passed in the south requiring black citizens to read and interpret a passage from the constitution before they could vote

Question 12

What is the grandfather clause?

Answer 12

Passed to help the poor/illiterate whites if your grandfather voted before 1867 they didn’t have to pay tax to vote

Question 13

First African American in congress from Mississippi who took Jefferson Davis’s Seat?

Answer 13

Hiram Revels

Question 14

Senator from Mississippi?

Answer 14

Blanch K. Bruce

Question 15

First African American in the house from SC

Answer 15

Joseph Rainey

Question 16

What was the Ku Klux Klan Act?

Answer 16

Allowed gov. To acts against terrorist organizations

Question 17

What is 40 acres and a mule?

Answer 17

Land confiscated from the Confederates that never happened

Question 18

What is Tenant Farming?

Answer 18

Farmers who payed rent for the land they worked

Question 19

What is sharecropping?

Answer 19

Rented land from landowners paid back in crops

Question 20

When/where/who did KKK originate?

Answer 20

1865
Pulaski Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest and 6 other former confederate soldiers

Question 21

What is the end compromise?

Answer 21

The 1876 election that ended the reconstruction period.

Question 22

What was unusual about the election of 1876?

Answer 22

Neither Hayes or tilden won the popularity vote so congress gave Hayes 20 points in order to win.