Chapter 1 - Reconstruction

Question 1

What issues contributed to the conflict over Reconstruction?

Answer 1

Lack of constitutional guidance in secession

Question 2

What is the 13th Amendment

Answer 2

It banned slavery

Question 3

What problems did African Americans face with the vacancy laws

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Laws that restricted African Americans’ rights

Answer 4

Black codes

Question 5

What is the 14th amendment

Answer 5

Gave African Americans citizenship

Question 6

As soon as _____ of state’s voters took the loyalty oath to the union, the state could set up a new government

Answer 6

10% Plan

Question 7

What is the 15th Amendment

Answer 7

Gave African Americans the right to vote

Question 8

Made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote

Answer 8

Enforcement Acts

Question 9

Laid out the process for readmitting southern into the Union

Answer 9

Reconstruction Acts

Question 10

Why did Johnson veto the a Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 10

Johnson supported state rights

Question 11

Understand that the Civil Rights Act of 1866…

Answer 11

Sought to abolish the Black codes by overruling state laws

Question 12

What led to the passage of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 12

14th amendment

Question 13

The _____ was used to eliminate _____ from elective office

Answer 13

Ironclad Oath; Confederate officers

Question 14

What is the importance of African American churches in Reconstruction

Answer 14

They provided a platform for organizing and group planning

Question 15

A farmer tends to a portion of a planter’s land in return for a portion of the crop

Answer 15

Sharecroppers

Question 16

A farmer paid rent to a landowner for the use of land

Answer 16

Tenant farming

Question 17

Why did tenant farmer need to be better at managing money than sharecroppers

Answer 17

So they could continue to pay the landowner for use of his land

Question 18

Segregation laws enacted after reconstruction in the south

Answer 18

Jim Crow Laws

Question 19

An agreement by which Rutherford B. Hayes won the 1876 election and in exchange agreed to remove all remaining federal troops from the south

Answer 19

Compromise of 1877

Question 20

A term for white southern Democrats who returned to political power after 1870 who wanted to redeem or reclaim the South from northern domination

Answer 20

Redeemer Strategy

Question 21

A law that required a majority of prewar voters in Confederate states to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin

Answer 21

Wade-Davis Bill

Question 22

Case in which the U.S. Supreme Court implemented the “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws

Answer 22

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 23

When the Supreme Court chipped away African American freedoms

Answer 23

Slaughterhouse cases

Question 24

What are the lasting effects of Reconstruction

Answer 24

The diversification of the southern economy

Question 25

Which voting practices did the Supreme Court decision address

Answer 25

Grandfather clause

Question 26

A sum of money you pay to vote

Answer 26

Poll Tax

Question 27

What are the consequences of the Supreme Court decision of 1883

Answer 27

B

Question 28

In what way did Booker T. Washington think the Tuskegee Institute could help the African American community

Answer 28

B

Question 29

During reconstruction, republicans dominated the new state governments because of...

Answer 29

Effects of carpetbaggers and new women voters

Question 30

A law to disqualify African American voters by only allowing men to vote whose fathers and grandfathers had voted before 1867

Answer 30

Grandfather clause

Question 31

He advocated full citizenship, including the right to vote for African Americans

Answer 31

Thaddeus Stevens