Reconstruction - US History

Question 1

What was significant about 1870?

Answer 1

African Americans got the right to vote

Question 2

Scalawag

Answer 2

Southern white person who supported the Republican party after the Civil War

Question 3

Carpetbagger

Answer 3

Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War

Question 4

15th Amendment

Answer 4

African American suffrage(right to vote)

Question 5

Segregation

Answer 5

Separation of the races

Question 6

What are some challenges African Americans in the South faced after the War?

Answer 6

Limited protection for racial violence, illiteracy, poor medical care, and housing

Question 7

What was the Freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 7

Provided food, shelter, medical care, and clothing the white refugees and freed African Americans

Question 8

Klu Klux Klan

Answer 8

White terrorist group that was created to scare African Americans into not voting

Question 9

Black codes

Answer 9

Laws made to limit the rights of African Americans; vagrancy, labor contracts, and land restrictions

Question 10

14th Amendment

Answer 10

States that all people born in the US are citizens, including former enslaved people

Question 11

Impeach

Answer 11

To charge a president with wrongdoing in office

Question 12

What is a synonym for pardon?

Answer 12

Amnesty

Question 13

Compromise of 1877

Answer 13

B.Hayes(Republican) elected President in turn remaining federal troops are withdrawn from the south

Question 14

13th Amendment

Answer 14

Abolished slavery

Question 15

Booker T.

Answer 15

Felt African Americans should earn respect by establishing themselves as good hardworking citizens

Question 16

Du Bois

Answer 16

Felt African Americans should demand their equality by voting and using their voices

Question 17

Exodusters

Answer 17

Group of slaves that moved west to escape racial violence

Question 18

Holmer Plessy

Answer 18

The original Rosa Parks

Question 19

Nadir

Answer 19

Lowest point

Question 20

Lincoln’s Plan

Answer 20

10% of voters had to take an oath, Emancipation had to be accepted, all former confederates pardoned

Question 21

Johnson’s Plan

Answer 21

Former confederates with $20,000 worth of property to get presidential pardon, ratification of 13th Amendment

Question 22

Radical Republican Plan

Answer 22

50% of voters had to take an oath, south divided into military districts, state legislators had to adopt new constitutions, 14th amendment ratified

Question 23

Radical Republican Plan

Answer 23

50% of voters had to take an oath, south divided into military districts, state legislators had to adopt new constitutions, 14th amendment ratified

Question 24

What were 3 major successes of reconstruction?

Answer 24

Tax supported school system, infusion of federal money to make railroads and ports, economy expanded

Question 25

Why would some argue reconstruction was a failure?

Answer 25

Historians say that the changes made in reconstruction might’ve happened anyway, plus, African Americans were still being terrorized