Lesson 11 (TCI) Flashcards
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
It outlawed slavery in all states.
Before the war ended, the Union government set up the Freedmen’s Bureau to
help formerly enslaved people and poor White people living in the South.
What main idea did the Radical Republicans support after the Civil War?
African Americans should have equal rights.
Why did the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Andrew Johnson?
He fired Edwin Stanton, the Secretary of War.
Why was President Andrew Johnson not removed from office when he was impeached in 1867?
Less than two-thirds of the Senate voted for his removal during the impeachment trial.
What did sharecropping and tenant farming have in common during Reconstruction?
They drove freed people into a life of debt peonage.
Black Codes passed by Southern state legislatures denied African Americans the right to
serve on juries.
Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment, which
prohibited states from denying individuals due process of law.
B. reversed the Dred Scott decision issued by the Supreme Court in 1857.
C. defined citizens as those who had been born or naturalized in the United States.
(all of the above)
Under Congressional Reconstruction policies, which of the following groups was not allowed to vote?
former Confederates
What was the effect of the grandfather clause?
It excused White people from poll taxes and literary tests.
Read the quotations below. What are these quotations examples of?
- “It should be unlawful for a Negro and a white person to play together or in company with each other at any game of pool or billiards.”
- “No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls.”
- “It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of white persons.”
Jim Crow laws
Why was the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson important?
It ruled that segregation was constitutional.
Which of the following brought an end to Reconstruction?
the Compromise of 1877
The Amnesty Act passed by Congress in 1872
pardoned former Confederates.
Which statement is true of the Ku Klux Klan?
They terrorized Black people and White Republicans to keep them from voting in elections.
