Chapter 17

Question 1

The period of reconstruction after the civil war is known as?

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

Define amnesty

Answer 2

A pardon

Question 3

Who was the leader of the radical Republicans

Answer 3

Charles Sumter

Question 4

What government agency helped free African Americans by distributing food, clothing, and establishing schools.

Answer 4

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 5

Who was accused of assassinating President Lincoln

Answer 5

John Wilkes Booth

Question 6

Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated

Answer 6

Andrew Johnson

Question 7

What did President Johnson rename his construction plan?

Answer 7

Restoration

Question 8

Explain what black codes are

Answer 8

Laws passed to control freed African Americans, allowed former plantation owners to exploit former slaves, seen as slavery disguised

Question 9

What act overturned the black codes of 1866

Answer 9

The Civil Rights act of 1866

Question 10

Which Southern State went along with congress and was the first to be readmitted into the country

Answer 10

Tennessee

Question 11

What act did Congress pass to limit the power of the president

Answer 11

Tenure of office act

Question 12

Who did Andrew Johnson remove from office in violation of the tenure of office act

Answer 12

Secretary of War Stanton

Question 13

After Johnson’s term in office who was elected President

Answer 13

Ulysses S Grant

Question 14

Define Scalawag

Answer 14

Means scoundrel or worthless rascal

Question 15

Define carpetbagger

Answer 15

Northerners who moved South with carpet bags

Question 16

Name two African American Men who served in the Senate during reconstruction

Answer 16

Hiram Revels and Blanche K Bruce

Question 17

Who was Grants opponent for President in 1872

Answer 17

Horace Greeley

Question 18

Who founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1866

Answer 18

Nathan. Forest

Question 19

Define the Ku Klux Klans “midnight rights “

Answer 19

Burned crosses in yards as a warning to African Americans and anyone who helped them

Question 20

Why did laws passed by congress to control the Ku Klux Klan have little effect

Answer 20

Many southerners refused to testify against the KKK members

Question 21

In which states did the Democrats regain power quickly due to a large white population

Answer 21

Va and NC

Question 22

How did the panic of 1873 last?

Answer 22

1873 -1879

Question 23

Who did the Republicans run for Their Presidential Candidate for the 1876 election

Answer 23

Rutherford B Hayes

Question 24

Who was the democrats presidential nominee for the 1876 election

Answer 24

Samuel Tilden

Question 25

During the 1876 election, which 4 states sent in disputed electoral votes

Answer 25

Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Oregon

Question 26

Which compromise between Republicans and Democrats led to Hayes being accepted as president

Answer 26

Compromise of 1877

Question 27

Who were the Bourbon Democrats

Answer 27

Some large land holders and others that controlled the South before the civil war

Question 28

Why did the Southern Democrats call themselves redeemers

Answer 28

Because they saved the south from Republican Rule

Question 29

Farmers who rented their land, equipment and home from the landholder were known as what?

Answer 29

Sharecroppers

Question 30

What were cash crops

Answer 30

Crops grown for money not for food

Question 31

In what four industries did Southern economy grow after the civil war

Answer 31

Textile mills, lumber mills, tobacco, iron and steel

Question 32

In which Southern states were public schools to be integrated

Answer 32

La, Fl, and SC

Question 33

What actor portrayed a character named "Jim Crow"

Answer 33

Thomas D Rice

Question 34

What Supreme Court decision upheld the legality of segregation in the South as long as there were separate but equal facilities

Answer 34

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 35

Name the extreme form of violence used against people where a mob would attack, torture, and then hang an individual for a perceived crime

Answer 35

Lynching