Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction: Reconstruction

Question 1

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstructions

Answer 1

-First attempt at Reconstruction made by Lincoln

-all Confederates will be given full pardon if they give an Oath of Allegiance and accept emancipation

-state governments could be reestablished as soon as 10% of the state voters took the oath

Question 2

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 2

-2nd attempt at Reconstruction not made by Lincoln

-state governments could be reestablished if 50% of the state votes took the oath of allegiance

-only citizens who did not serve in the Confederate army or government could vote

-Lincoln vetoed this bill

Question 3

President Andrew Johnson

Answer 3

-Democratic

-hates plantation owners but will side with them with racism

-takes over Reconstruction and Congress is not happy

Question 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 4

a welfare agency that provided food, shelter, land, and medical care for black and white Americans damaged by the war
-Johnson ended this for he was racist and wanted to focus on education

Question 5

Radical Republicans

Answer 5

wanted to make sure African Americans had a “fair shot” at freedom through military rule

Question 6

13th Amendment

Answer 6

ended slavery in America

Question 7

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 7

-stated African Americans were citizens
-as citizens, their rights would not be taken away

Question 8

Results of the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 8

-Republicans worried that Democrats would overturn the Act if they returned to power

-the 14th Amendment was created

Question 9

14th Amendment

Answer 9

-all people born in the US are citizens

-states have to provide equal protection of the law and if not federal government would step in

-arguably the most important Amendment created

Question 10

Black Codes

Answer 10

-granted some rights to African Americans (own property, marry, make contracts)

-limited the rights as well (labor laws, could not testify in court)

Question 11

Sharecropping

Answer 11

a corrupt system where a landlord provided the seeds and farm supplied an African American needed to start their own farm. The landlord asked in return a share of the harvest

Question 12

What did groups like the KKK forming make Congress need to do?

Answer 12

Congress would need to go farther in making a change in laws and government

Question 13

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 13

-split the South into 5 military districts

-military troops ensure that African Americans have rights and are safe

Question 14

Radical Republicans want Andrew Johnson out of office. What do they try to do?

Answer 14

Impeach him

Question 15

15th Amendment

Answer 15

African American (men) have the right to vote

Question 16

President Grant and Congress result of the KKK

Answer 16

-more troops in the South

-pass the Force Acts

Question 17

Force Acts

Answer 17

-make it possible to convict members of the KKK

-leaves Southern governments fragile to forces out of their control

-weakens government

-causes many in the South to support the KKK

Question 18

result of troops in the South

Answer 18

-African Americans feel safe

-Republicans dominate state governments in the South

Question 19

Scalawags

Answer 19

a group of Southern Republicans

Question 20

Carpetbaggers

Answer 20

Northerners who moved South after the war

Question 21

What do the Scalawags and Carpetbaggers do? What is the result of this?

Answer 21

-form a political alliance with freed African Americans

-African Americans have roles in politics (Senators)

Question 22

How do Black communities thrive in Reconstruction?

Answer 22

they form Churches, schools, move into the city because of protection

Question 23

Credit Mobilier

Answer 23

a system of giving stocks to Congressmen to avoid investigation on profits on the Transcontinental Railroad

Question 24

Corrupt in the Reconstructions

Answer 24

-politics in the North and South
-people see Grant as corrupt
-state governments

Question 25

An image that ab African American-run government is poorly run, corrupt, and cannot be properly run. What does the image do?

Answer 25

This image feeds into racist and white begin to regain power in the South

Question 26

Panic of 1873

Answer 26

-bank declares bankrupt
-the poor are on their own

Question 27

What do Democrats do after the Panic of 1873?

Answer 27

-regain South
-put restrictions on African Americans

Question 28

The Compromise of 1877

Answer 28

-Rutherford B. Hayes wins Presidential election with the cost of Federal troops leave the South

-Reconstruction ends

Question 29

Good things of reconstruction

Answer 29

-African Americans were involved in politics

-African American communities thrived

-Public School system was created in the South

Question 30

Bad things of reconstruction

Answer 30

-African Americans were assaulted

-Racism in the South returned

-rumor of “African Americans could not handle freedom”