Themes in American History 1865 - 2001

Question 1

11 Former Confederate States

Answer 1

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia

Question 2

Border States

Answer 2

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia

Question 3

Horace Greeley

Answer 3

Whig, then Liberal Republican / Editor of NY Tribune / Nominated for president in 1872, defeated by Grant.

Question 4

Redeemers

Answer 4

Victorious Democrats that “redeemed” white South from corruption

Question 5

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 5

Leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction. Lawyer and iron manufacturer representing PA in the House whose aim was to confiscate land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to South.

Question 6

Frederick Douglas

Answer 6

Black abolitionist, writer and former slave

Question 7

Andrew Johnson

Answer 7

Successor to Abraham Lincoln, ordered nearly all land in federal lands returned to former southern owners.

Question 8

Yeomen

Answer 8

Farmer of small parcels of land

Question 9

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 9

Advocate of Woman’s Suffrage, abolitionist

Question 10

Scalawags

Answer 10

Southern whites that that supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party

Question 11

Hiram Revels

Answer 11

First black to serve in US Senate

Question 12

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 12

Military arm of the Democratic Part in the south. Founded 1866 in Tennessee.

Question 13

Special Field Order #15

Answer 13

Set aside the Sea Islands along South Carolina and Georgia coast for settlement of black families on 40 acre plots of land + mules.

Question 14

National Woman Suffrage Association

Answer 14

Formed NYC 1869 over split over 15th Amendment (American Equal Rights Association)

Question 15

U.S. v. Cruikshank

Answer 15

1876 gutted Enforcement Acts – threw out convictions of some responsible for Colfax Massacre of 1873 (105 black and 3 white dead).

Question 16

Radical Reconstruction

Answer 16

Believed blacks were entitled to same political rights and opportunities as whites and Confederate leaders should be punished.

Question 17

Bargain of 1877

Answer 17

Democrats agreed to back Rutherford Hayes’ election if Republicans removed all federal troops from the south. FL, LA and SC became Democratic again.

Question 18

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 18

President Johnson offered pardons to nearly all white southerners who took an oath of allegiance but excluded Confederate leaders/wealthy planters whose prewar property >$20K. Appointed provisional governors to call state conventions, elected by whites alone.

Question 19

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 19

Established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65). The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance.

Question 20

Howard University

Answer 20

First African American university named after founder O. O. Howard (Oliver Otis Howard) who was also commissioner of Freedmen’s Bureau.

Question 21

Black Codes

Answer 21

Laws passed by Southern states after Civil War with intent on restricting African American’s freedom and forced them into labor economy based on law wages. Wanted to maintain white supremacy. Modeled after slave codes.

Question 22

Crop-lien

Answer 22

Sharecroppers who did not own the land that they worked obtained supplies and food on credit from merchants which then placed a lien on crop as repayment.