Reconstruction

Question 1

Why was sharecropping better than slavery?

Answer 1

It gave freed slaves an opportunity to improve their lives and the lives of their families.

Question 2

Sharecropping

Answer 2

A system in which landowners give farmworkers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise.

Question 3

Carpetbagger

Answer 3

Northerners who moved to the south after the Civil War looking for financial gain.

Question 4

What did amendment 15 say?

Answer 4

You could not deny someone the right to vote based on race.

Question 5

Why were people from the north coming to the south?

Answer 5

Looking for cheap land.

Question 6

What are the three Civil War and amendments?

Answer 6

Amendment 13 amendment 14 an amendment 15

Question 7

What is impeachment?

Answer 7

Remove from office

Question 8

Who is president after Andrew Johnson?

Answer 8

Grant

Question 9

What did amendment 13 say?

Answer 9

It ended slavery

Question 10

What are the six principles of the Constitution?

Answer 10

Federalism
limited government popular sovereignty
separation of powers
checks and balances 
judicial review

Question 11

Since the Ku Klux Klan couldn’t deny people the right to vote based on race how did they try to keep blacks down?

Answer 11

They refused to hire them and they put conditions on voting

Question 12

What key term comes out of the Plessy versus Ferguson case?

Answer 12

Separate but equal

Question 13

What was the dispute in the 1876 election?

Answer 13

Whether Hayes or Tilden would get 20 electoral votes.

Question 14

Why was the civil rights act of 1875 deemed unconstitutional?

Answer 14

Discrimination between people was not a violation of the 14th amendment.

Question 15

Scalawags

Answer 15

A white southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.

Question 16

What charge did congress bring against Johnson?

Answer 16

Violation of the tenure of office act

Question 17

Who supported a more aggressive path to a quality for black people?

Answer 17

W. E. B. Dubois

Question 18

What is the compromise in the 1876 elections?

Answer 18

Democrats get the removal of northern troops, building a railroad, one member of Hayes cabinet. Republicans get Hayes as president.

Question 19

What was the purpose of reconstruction?

Answer 19

To bring the south back into the country.

Question 20

Who wins the 1876 election?

Answer 20

Hayes

Question 21

What is the period after the Civil War called?

Answer 21

Reconstruction

Question 22

Why was crop sharing better than slavery?

Answer 22

It gave freed slaves the ability to improve their lives and their families lives.

Question 23

What are the two parts of impeachment?

Answer 23

Bringing the charges and removal

Question 24

What body elects the president?

Answer 24

The electoral college

Question 25

How many presidents have been impeached?

Answer 25

2 - Johnson and Clinton

Question 26

What group opposed the idea of reconstruction?

Answer 26

The Ku Klux Klan

Question 27

What was the relationship status between Johnson and the Congress?

Answer 27

It was poor.

Question 28

Who believed patients and education would lead to the equality of black people?

Answer 28

Booker T Washington

Question 29

Why did freed slaves and poor whites do sharecropping?

Answer 29

They needed money.

Question 30

What was some of the goals of the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 30

Destroy the Republican Party, stop reconstruction, aid the farmers in the south.

Question 31

Why are people able to get land cheap after the Civil War?

Answer 31

Land was destroyed from all of the fighting and people who own the land had died in the civil war.

Question 32

What was the goal of people coming from the north to the south?

Answer 32

To make as much money as possible from the recovering states.

Question 33

Who brings the charges in an impeachment case?

Answer 33

US House of Representatives

Question 34

Who is the jury in an impeachment case?

Answer 34

U.S. Senate