SSUSH10

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

Abolished slavery

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

Question 4

Andrew Johnson

Answer 4

17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln’s assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; Impeachment trial based on his opposition to Reconstruction efforts by Congress

Question 5

Black Codes

Answer 5

laws passed in the south just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit african american workers

Question 6

Carpetbagger

Answer 6

Northerners who went to the South during Reconstruction. They carried their belongings in carpetbags, and most intended to settle in the South and make money there. Part of the radical government, they passed much needed reforms.

Question 7

Compromise of 1877

Answer 7

Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president

Question 8

Congressional Reconstruction

Answer 8

• Passed 14th and 15th amendments, • Military reconstruction act divided the south into five military districts, • Military rule protected voting rights for African Americans

Question 9

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 9

federal agency set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed slaves in the South

Question 10

Hiram Revels

Answer 10

the first African American senator

Question 11

Johnson’s Impeachment

Answer 11

he intentionally violates Tenure Act because it was set upt to get him impeached by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stantin, at the Trial his lawyer says his only crime is opposing Congress, 12 democrats and 7 republicans vote him “not guilty”, so he escaped impeachment by one vote

Question 12

KKK

Answer 12

Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. The Southern establishment took charge by passing discriminatory laws known as the black codes. Gives whites almost unlimited power. They masked themselves and burned black churches, schools, and terrorized black people

Question 13

Lincoln’s 10% Plan

Answer 13

Lincoln’s reconstruction plan which would allow a southern state to reenter the union if only 10% of the voters in that state pledged allegiance to the union.

Question 14

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 14

was the President’s idea of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and a small % men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.

Question 15

Congressional (Radical Republican) Reconstruction

Answer 15

punish south, protect former slaves; US military occupation of South, Confederate military leaders needed pardon to hold office, protect Blacks right to vote

Question 16

Radical Republicans

Answer 16

Senators and congressmen who, strictly identifying the Civil War with the abolitionist cause, sought swift emancipation of the slaves, punishment of the rebels, and tight controls over the former Confederate states after the war.

Question 17

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 17

a.) put the South under military rule b.)Ordered states to hold new elections for delegates to create new state constitutions c.) Required all states to allow all qualified male voters to vote in elections d.) Barred those who supported the Confederacy from voting.

Question 18

Scalawag

Answer 18

a white Southerner who joined the Republican party during the Reconstruction period. they were also considered traitors to the Southern cause. Part of the radical government, they passed much needed reforms.

Question 19

Sharecropping

Answer 19

a system used on southern farms after the civil war in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.