Chapter 18 Flashcards
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Compare Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln’s 10% plan- forgiving the South
Radical Republic- wanted a harsher read mission process
What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former Confederate states and readmitting them to the Union
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords Theater
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Peterson’s house
Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery
What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the U.S including African Americans
What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African Americans men the right to vote in 1870
What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800’s?
Served int he states general assembly, state senate , and representives
Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses .S. Grant
What were carpetbaggers?
Northers that moved to the south during Reconstuction to find wealth by bringing industry to the region
What did the name scalawags mean?
Name used by fomer Confederate to describe some white southern that were pro-Union
What was the largest terrorist group in America that was against African-American
rights?
KKK
What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes’ victory in the Election of 1876?
He had more electoral votes but less popular votes
What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
As requirements for voting in many southern states to keep African Americans from voting
What is segregation?
Separation of the races
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required African Americans and whites to be separated in almost every public place
What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Was legal as long as it was separate and equal
What was an exoduster?
African American that left after the war
Who was the Tennessean that helped lead a group of exodusters to Kansas?
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
