Exam 1 part 1

Question 1

Who starts to make plans for an easy reconstruction where the south is welcomed back to united states?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln

Question 2

What plan is made to welcome the southern states back to USA? / What is the plan?

Answer 2

10 percent plan / He only asked that 10 percent of a southern state’s population swear an oath to the USA and afterwards that state is welcomed to the USA.

Question 2

Did the 10 percent plan stay in effect long? Why?

Answer 2

No because Lincoln was killed at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

Question 3

What can you do after the 10 percent plan?

Answer 3

You can send members to congress and the house of representatives.

Question 3

Who are the group of republicans that take control of the reconstruction after Lincoln is killed?

Answer 3

Radical Republicans

Question 4

What percent does the radical republicans demand from the southern states to be apart of USA again? How long does reconstruction last for? Who does the radical republicans try to help?

Answer 4

90 percent / 12 years/ slaves

Question 4

What does the Fourteenth Amendment do?

Answer 4

Defines African Americans as citizens and they will have equal protection under laws and the constitution.

Question 5

What did the thirteenth amendment do?

Answer 5

Made slavery illegal in the United States.

Question 6

What is the Fifteenth Amendment do?

Answer 6

Federal government can’t take people’s right to vote based on race, skin color, or previous conditions of servitude.

Question 7

How did the south try to maintain dominance?

Answer 7

Sharecropping

Question 8

What is sharecropping?

Answer 8

When you have someone work for you and you take away a portion of their food as payments.

Question 9

What codes were passed by the southern states called and what does this mean?

Answer 9

Black Codes / African Americans had to show papers of employment to officials If unable to produce papers you are arrested.

Question 10

What terrorist group used tactics to beat black people, destroyed businesses owned by African Americans, beat up white people who friended black, and lynched black people called?

Answer 10

Ku Klux Klan

Question 11

Who is the governor of Ohio?

Answer 11

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 11

How did the Ku Klux Klan see themselves? / Who did they go after?/ Why did they do this?

Answer 11

Protecter of southern values and virtues. / They went after blacks and northerns/ Based off hatred.

Question 12

Which 3 states were having voting problems between Hayes vs Tilden? What kind of states are they?

Answer 12

Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana. / They are southern states

Question 13

What party was Ruthford Hayes apart of and who was he going against?

Answer 13

He is the republican nominee and runs against democrat named Samuel J Tilden

Question 13

How did Hayes win the election?

Answer 13

Hayes sent delegates and said if they give him their electoral votes then he will end reconstruction in the south.

Question 14

Define what did Hayes do with the compromise of 1877?

Answer 14

Hayes pulled every union group in southern state and made it where every southern state will have delegates in congress.

Question 15

What was Hayes’s first piece of legislation called? What did it do?

Answer 15

Compromise of 1877 and ended reconstruction in the south.

Question 16

What is it called where the south rewrote the history of the civil war?

Answer 16

The Lost Cause Myth

Question 17

What did the south say that the war was? / What did they say about Lincoln?

Answer 17

This was a war of northern aggression, and the south was a victim of the civil war. / Lincoln was a tyrant.

Question 17

What 40s movie promotes the lost cause myth?

Answer 17

Gone With the Wind

Question 18

What kind of veterans promoted that the south was an honorable institution? / What was the confederacy say they were fighting for?

Answer 18

Sons and Daughter of Confederate Veterans / They were fighting for states’ rights.

Question 19

Who was one of the first civil rights leaders/ He founded an all-African American college named?

Answer 19

Booker T Washington / Tuskegee University in Alabama.