Chapter 12

Question 1

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 1

Helped lead the Radical Republicans

Question 2

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 2

gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing black codes.

Question 3

Who did Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan aim to punish?

Answer 3

Confederate officials/generals

Question 4

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 4

Made all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. citizens of the country.

Question 5

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 5

States no one can be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Question 6

Who did the Radical Republicans believe should be in charge of Reconstruction policy?

Answer 6

Congress

Question 7

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 7

Didn’t recognize state governments formed under the Lincoln and Johnson plans.

Question 8

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction

Answer 8

The government would pardon all Confederates that swore allegiance to the Union.
(Ten%plan)

Question 9

Hiram Revels

Answer 9

First-African American Senator from Mississippi.

Question 10

Sharecropping

Answer 10

A system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise.

Question 11

What increased in the South

Answer 11

Taxes

Question 12

Compromise of 1877

Answer 12

An agreement between Democrats and Republicans that gave Hayes the presidency and ended Reconstruction.

Question 13

home rule

Answer 13

Pass laws themselves

Question 14

redemption

Answer 14

The return of Democrats to power in the South.