unit 5 reconstruction ush

Question 1

what is the 13th amendment

Answer 1

an amendment passed in 1865 that abolished slavery

Question 2

what is the south’s response to the 13th amendment

Answer 2

angry, nervous, frustrated, fearful

Question 3

what is the 14th amendment

Answer 3

everyone born in the US is a US citizen, and has protection of the law, passed in 1868. No states can make laws that deny rights of citizens.

Question 4

what was the south’s response to the 14th amendment

Answer 4

angry, nervous, fearful

Question 5

what is the 15th amendment

Answer 5

Black men (not women) can vote

Question 6

What was the south’s response to the 15th amendment

Answer 6

angry, fearful

Question 7

How to remember the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment

Answer 7

Free (13) Citizens (14) Vote (15)

Question 8

What was the freedman’s bureau

Answer 8

Bureau made to protect black people, and their rights

Question 9

what did the freedman’s bureau do

Answer 9

Help black people find jobs, food, medical care, schools, legalizing marriage and reunited families.

Question 10

Who made the freedman bureau

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln in 1865

Question 11

Why was the freedman bureau not good

Answer 11

-white ppl opposed and harassed other white ppl who tried to help
-johnson cut funding
-ended in 1872, 7 years after being formed

Question 12

what was a upside of the freedman bureau

Answer 12

it helped a lot of black people transition into a life of freedom

Question 13

what things did the freedman bureau do?

Answer 13

legalize marriage, make schools, help find jobs, food, housing, medical care and reunited families.

Question 14

what is share cropping

Answer 14

when landowners divided land to a-americans or poor whites and when they harvested, they took half the crops as rent. it was more beneficial to land owners then slaves bc they usually never got to the point where they could buy their own land.

Question 15

what is a scalawag

Answer 15

white southerner who joined the Republican party, and wanted the south to industrialize fast

Question 16

what is a carpetbagger

Answer 16

northerners who moved to the south after the war with mixed motives, such as helping former slaves, or former union soldiers who wanted to buy land to start new industries. others were adventurers who exploited southern turmoil for profit

Question 17

What was lincoln’s 10% plan’s position toward south

Answer 17

lenient policy, said that the southern states never left the union, believed individuals rebelled, not the whole state.

Question 18

what was lincoln’s 10% plan description

Answer 18

pardon call confederates who swore an oath of allegiance to the US excluding high ranking officials
once 10% of ppl do this, the state rejoins
form new state govt’s

Question 19

what was lincoln 10% plan purpose

Answer 19

quick and easy return to union, PEACE not punish

Question 20

what was radical republican construction plan position toward south

Answer 20

wanted to destroy political power of former slave owners, assist african-americans and were angry.

Question 21

what was radical republican construction plan description

Answer 21

congress should be in charge of reconstruction
majority of voters must swear oath
full citizenship and voting for ex slaves
divide south into 5 military districts

Question 22

what was radical republican construction plan purpose

Answer 22

punish south and slave owners
empower former slaves

Question 23

what was radical republican construction plan also known as

Answer 23

congressional reconstruction (1865-1877)

Question 24

what was president johnson’s plan’s position toward south

Answer 24

enemy of wealthy southern planters, staunch unionist (confederate who didnt secede), southern democrat

Question 25

what was president johnson's plan's description

Answer 25

declare secession illegal, allegiance to union, ratify 13th amendment

Question 26

what was president johnson's plan's purpose

Answer 26

-support state rights and not a strong federal gov, -states can have some say in a-american voting, -keep white men in control of south, doesn't protect a-americans

Question 27

why did radical republicans want to impeach johnson

Answer 27

he wasnt carrying out his constiutional obligation to enforce the reconstruction act

Question 28

what was the tenure of office act

Answer 28

an act that stated the president couldn't remove cabinet officers during the term of the president by whom they have been appointed.

Question 29

what was andrew johnson charged of violating

Answer 29

tenure of office act

Question 30

what was the outcome of johnson's impeachment trial

Answer 30

the senate didnt find him guilty; he was impeached not removed; message sent to johnson, stay out of congress way

Question 31

what party was grant apart of

Answer 31

republican

Question 32

who did southern african american men vote for in the 1868 election

Answer 32

grant

Question 33

when did radical reconstruction end

Answer 33

in 1877 when federal troops were removed from southern states

Question 34

what were the black codes

Answer 34

discriminatory laws that kept a-americans in a submissive place in society. are state laws. any amt of black blood made u black

Question 35

how did black codes limit rights of a-americans

Answer 35

black ppl couldnt carry weapons, marry whites, buy/sell liquor black people needed to be employed by white ppl and couldnt buy or rent in certain areasw

Question 36

what is the KKK

Answer 36

ku klux klan. vigilante group that used violence and intimidation to attempt to retore white supremacy. wanted to destroy republican party

Question 37

what did the ku klux clan do to limit rights of a-americans

Answer 37

burnt black churches, hang people, intimidated black voters with guns, destroy places trying to help black people, evade the ku klux klan act that sought to shut them down (passed in 1871)

Question 38

what were poll taxes

Answer 38

a tax u had to pay to vote

Question 39

how did poll taxes limit rights of a-americans

Answer 39

a-Americans couldn't afford to vote, and denied right to vote southern democrats were afraid they'd be voted out of power b/c of too many black people voting for republicans. barriers to voting

Question 40

what were literacy tests

Answer 40

written tests you had to pass in order to vote

Question 41

how did literacy tests limit the rights of a-americans

Answer 41

black people were given near impossible tests to suppress them

Question 42

what were grandfather clauses

Answer 42

a law allowing men who failed the literacy test and not paying the poll tax to vote if their father/grandfather voted before 1865

Question 43

how did grandfather clauses limit the rights of a-americans

Answer 43

loophole designed to help poor whites vote, while denying a-Americans the right to vote

Question 44

what were jim crow laws

Answer 44

segregation laws

Question 45

how did jim crow laws limit rights of a-americans

Answer 45

separate facilities for white & blacks ex: hospitals, waiting rooms, schools, restaurants, transportation Plessy v Ferguson creates separate but equal doctrine in America

Question 46

what is plessy v ferguson

Answer 46

a court case that stated is it permissible for separate but equal facilities in America. it essentially allowed Jim segregation laws in America.