Reconstruction Flashcards
(35 cards)
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C.
When was Lincoln assissinated?
April 14, 1865
List the 4 plans for the South after the Civil War?
- Lincoln 10% plan
- Johnson’s plan
- Southern Democrat Plan
- Radical Republican Plan
What was the Lincoln 10% plan?
Called for only a small percentage of a State’s population to swear loyalty to be readmitted.
Amnesty to Confederate officials and officers were granted.
What was Johnson’s plan?
The majority of the Southerners to swear loyalty to be readmitted as a state.
Also, it called for the ratification of the 13th amendment and NOT the 14th and 15th amendments.
What was the Southern Democrat plan?
Called for a return to the old ways (slavery, etc.).
Also, the 14th and 15th amendments should NOT be ratified.
What does ratified mean?
Be made into law
What is the Radical Republican plan?
Wanted to punish the South.
Banned all Confederate generals and officials from political office.
Required ratifying the 14th and 15th amendments.
Define amnesty.
When a president grants pardons to large groups of people.
Define pardon.
When a judge or president allows a person to not be punished.
What is the Freedman’s Bureau?
An organization designed by congress to help newly freed slaves become normal citizens.
They were given food, money and schools for education.
What is a carpetbagger?
A northerner who moved south to make money off of the Southern people.
Called a carpetbagger because the suitcase that they carried their possesions in were many times made out of plaid or carpet material.
Define Scalawag.
A Southerner who supported Northern ideas and wanted Reconstruction to occur.
Were treated just as bad as African Americans.
What is a poll tax?
A tax that was required to be paid in order to vote.
Must be paid every year.
Hurts poor African Americans who cannot afford the money to pay the tax.
Keeps them from voting so only white people will stay in office.
Define lynch.
To hang a person without a trial.
Was used mainly on African Americans by Southerners (particularly the Ku Klux Klan) for the purpose of fear.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
Discrimination laws against African Americans.
The name was meant to be insulting to blacks.
What are Black Codes?
Local, unwritten discriminatory laws against blacks.
Not allowed to carry guns, gather in groups, etc.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
If a member of the family was able to vote before 1867, these people do not have to take the literacy tests created in order to vote.
Since no African American was allowed to vote before this date, all African Americans were required to take the test.
This allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote.
What is the 13th amendment?
Slavery is abolished in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment?
All men are created equal under the law.
All men have equal rights reardless of race or ethnicity.
What is the 15th amendent?
All men are allowed to vote, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Who was the 17th president?
Andrew Johnson
What did Andrew Johnson believe about Reconstruction?
He believed that the power for Reconstruction should be in control by the President.
He was a Southern Democrat who hated aristocrats, but did not want equality between whites and blacks.
