Flashcards in Chapter 18 Deck (22):
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What is Reconstruction?
Rebuilding the former confederate states and re admitting them to the union
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Compare Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan with the Radical Republican plan.
Lincoln- forgiving on the south
Radical- wanted a harsher readmission freedom
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What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Agency that helped African Americans make the transition to freedom
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Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Fords theater
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Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes
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What building was the location where Lincoln died?
Petersons house
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Who becomes the 17th President of the United States?
Andrew Johnson
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What was the significance of the 13th Amendment?
Abolish slavery
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What was the significance of the 14th Amendment?
Have full citizenship to anyone born in us including African American men the right to vote
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What was the significance of the 15th Amendment?
Gave African men the right to vote
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What did 14 African Americans do in Tennessee in the late 1800's?
Served in the states general assembly, state senate and rep
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Who won the Election of 1868?
Ulysses s grant
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What were carpetbaggers?
Northerners that moved to the south during reconstruction to find wealth by bringing industry to the region
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What did the name scalawags mean?
Name used by former confederate that were pro Union
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What was the largest terrorist group in America that was against African-American
rights?
Ku klux klan
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What was unique about Rutherford B. Hayes' victory in the Election of 1876?
He won it with more electoral votes but less popular votes
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What were the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in many Southern states?
To make it difficult for African Americans to vote
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What is segregation?
Separation of the races
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What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that required white people and black people to be separated
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What did the court case Plessy v Ferguson say about segregation?
Segregation was legal as long as it was separated me equal
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What was an exoduster?
African Americans that left the south after war
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