Ep.1

Question 1

General Grant

Answer 1

Union Army General, later became president

Question 2

General Oliver Howard

Answer 2

Oversaw Freeman’s Bureau

Forced by pres. Johnson to give back land to planters

Pro black

Question 3

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 3

Assisted recently freed AAs and poor whites in the South

Question 4

President Johnson

Answer 4

Concerned about growing black independence

Required wealthy planters to beg for forgiveness

Question 5

Frederick Douglass

Question 6

40 Acres & a Mule

Answer 6

Part of field order 15- redistributed land back to freed black men

Question 7

The Lost Cause

Answer 7

“Gracious Southern civilization defending itself from northern aggression”

Question 8

Jim Crow

Answer 8

Laws segregating AA’s, like black codes.

Originated from the derogatory “Jump Jim Crow” character

Mocking expression for AA

Question 9

Black Codes

Answer 9

“Slavery without the chains”

1. Fined unemployed AAs
2. “No bad work” allowed
3. AAs banned from white spaces
4. Harsh crime penalties
5. Kids + orphans forced to work

Question 10

KKK

Answer 10

White supremacist group founded in 1866 enforcing black codes

Targeted

Question 11

Alexander Stephens

Question 12

Radical Republicans

Answer 12

Extremists who believed that AAs helped save the union in war, and deserve constitutionally protected rights.

Question 13

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 13

Leader of the radical republicans, house rep.

Question 14

Memphis Race Riot

Answer 14

1866 - White mobs and police hunt AA’s and burn Black churches + schools

Question 15

14th Amendment

Answer 15

Result of failed pres. recon.

a) Birthright citizenship
b) Do process
c) Equal protection of the law

No Southern states ratify, except Tennessee.

Question 16

Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Answer 16

Congress creates 5 Military Districts under federal control.

Question 17

Bayonet Rule

Answer 17

Using military power to enforce laws

1% of black men could vote in the beginning of 1867, 80% could by the end of the year

Question 18

President Grant

Answer 18

Elected president in 1868 (was General)

Question 19

Congressional Requirements needed for Southern states to re-enter the Union

Answer 19

a) Adopt new constitutions
b) Black men voting rights
c) Elect new governments
d) Radify 14 amendment

Question 20

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 20

Andrew Johnson is surprisingly lenient towards the south.

Question 21

Radical Republicans

Answer 21

Lead By Thaddeus Stevens. Progressive anti slavery

Question 22

Tunis Campbell

Answer 22

Head of St. Catherines Island

Campbell brought teachers and taught

Question 23

Field Order 15

Answer 23

Redistributed land back to AAs. Order was overturned by Andrew Johnson