Final - Reconstruction

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

Abolish Slavery

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

Citizenship to everyone born in the US

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

blacks the right to vote

Question 4

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 4

provide food, shelter, and land to freed slaves

Question 5

Compromise of 1876

Answer 5

Dems agreed Hayes could be president
withdrawal of troops in the South
start of Jim crow laws (segregation)

Question 5

KKK

Answer 5

White supremacist hate group

Question 6

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 6

18th President
General in Civil War

Question 7

Sharecropping

Answer 7

Land owner allows tenant to use land in exchange for share of the crop

Question 8

Tenant Farming

Answer 8

the Freedmen became tenants. The planter or landowner assigned each family a small tract of land to farm and provided food, shelter, clothing, and the necessary seeds and farm equipment.

Unlike sharecroppers, who could only contribute their labor but had no legal claim to the land or crops they farmed,

Question 9

Exodusters

Answer 9

former slaves who left the south - went west

Question 10

Carpetbaggers

Answer 10

Political candidate in area where they have no local connections

Question 11

Scalawags

Answer 11

bad person - white southerner who opposed reconstruction

Question 12

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 12

Killed Abe Lincoln

Question 13

10 Percent Plan

Answer 13

allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths

Question 14

Jim Crow Laws / Black codes

Answer 14

racial segregation and lessen right to vote

Question 15

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 15

“separate but equal” decision in Plessy v. Ferguson on that date upheld state-imposed Jim Crow laws. It became the legal basis for racial segregation in the United States for the next fifty years.