Reconstruction Plans
Lincoln was unable to fulfill his long-term Reconstruction plan due to what event in April 1865?
His assassination
Republicans who not only wanted to end slavery but extend all rights to African Americans, including marriage and voting rights, were known as what?
Radical Republicans
Laws that were passed in the South designed to counteract the freedoms that the North was trying to give African Americans were called what?
Black Codes
Who were Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes?
The Democratic and Republican presidental candidates during the 1876 election, respectively.
This man became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He is often considered one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.
Andrew Johnson
This institution was designed to assist, aid and educate recently empancipated former slaves. It was unpopular in the South.
The Freedmen's Bureau
This finally abolished slavery from the Constitution.
The Thirteenth Amendment
What kind of activities did groups like the Red Shirts and the White League participate in during Reconstruction in the South?
White terrorism against African Americans
While the 15th amendment and the Force Acts (which targeted black codes) were passed under this President, his handling of Reconstruction is questionable. The Freedmen's Bureau was allowed to lapse, for example, and he did not enforce the 1875 Civil Rights Act.
Ulysses S Grant
Who became President after the Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B Hayes
Why couldn't President Andrew Johnson veto any of the laws passed by Radical Republicans?
The Republicans has a supermajority in Congress (more than 66%), which would allow them to override any veto Johnson might try.
This said you cannot be denied the right to vote based on your race.
The Fifteenth Amendment
Many African Americans worked as these, a form of labor that was very similar to slavery and in some ways worse, as they had to pay for their own food and shelter.
Sharecroppers
This secret organization was formed by former Confederate soldiers who wanted to restore the old Southern way of life by terrorizing African Americans.
The Ku Klux Klan
Southerners who wanted to reunite with the Union after the war, and voted for Republicans, were known by other Southerners as what?
Scalawags
Name a way in which Johnson's plan differed from the Radical Republican's plan.
Johnson pardoned former Confederates, while the RR wanted to punish them
OR
The RR wanted to give full citizenship and equality to African Americans. Johnson did not.
This stated that everyone born in the U.S. was a citizen (including former slaves), established right to due process, and provided equal protection under the law to all U.S. citizens.
Fourteenth Amendment
Name one of two Black Codes that made it difficult for African American men to vote during Reconstruction.
Literacy tests
and
Poll Taxes
Why were the states of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina significant during the end of Reconstruction?
There were the three states that had disputed winners in the 1876 election
Republicans who came to the South after the war to take advantage of the poor economic and political situation were called what?
Carpetbaggers
What did the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867 do?
They had the military occupy Southern states to ensure Republican policies were being enacted and that black rights were being respected.
What was done by Congress for the first time in American history to pass the Civil Rights bill in 1866?
They overrode Johnson's presidential veto.
What law allowed poor, uneducated white Southerners to vote, but prevented poor, uneducated African Americans from voting?
Grandfather clause
Historians generally agree that the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction. How was it a compromise? What did each side get?
The Northern Republicans would remove the troops policing the south and in exchange, Southern Democrats would accept Rutherford B. Hayes as President even though the election results were questionable.
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were prominent members of which group during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
Lincoln vetoed this bill by Radical Republicans that increased Lincoln's 10% to 50%.
Wade-Davis Bill
The Tenure of Office Act said that the Senate must approve any changes in the President's administration. Even though Republicans felt this law was unconstitutional, why did they want to pass it anyway?
To bait Andrew Johnson into breaking the law, giving Republicans a basis for impeaching the president
If a sharecropper owed crops or rent to their landlord, they would not be allowed to leave the farm until it was paid off. What was this system called?
Debt peonage
What was the name of the group who took power in Southern states by the end of Reconstruction, claiming to correct the mistakes done by Republicans during Reconstruction?
White "Redeemers"
This was the Secretary of War under Lincoln and later under Johnson. When Johnson tried to fire him, he violated the Tenure of Office Act
Edwin Stanton