Rival Plans for Reconstruction
Reconstruction in the South
End of Reconstruction
Definitions
Miscellaneous
100
T or F Reconstruction in the South was needed because the Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.
True
100
T of F Immediately following the Civil War, the South became a stronghold for Democrats
False
100
President Grants ability to lead reconstruction efforts was hurt by what?
corruption/ scandal by people close to him
100
Carpetbagger
Northerns who moved South to improve their economic or political situations
100
What was the South's economy like after the Civil War?
destroyed, in ruins, vulnerable etc
200
In whose plan for reconstruction did it say that the southern states had never really left the Union, and that the country needed reunited as soon as possible
President Lincoln
200
What was the primary goal of the KKK? They did this by using various degrees of violence.
To prevent freed African Americans the right to vote
200
T or F One failure of reconstruction was the introduction of taxes to fund schooling in the South
False
200
Black Codes
Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans
200
T or F In President Johnson's plan for reconstruction, he required wealthy planters and Confederate leaders apply for pardons
T
300
Why did the Radical Republicans reject Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
They felt African Americans should be granted full citizenship
300
This type of farming was very similar to sharecropping except that the farm worker chose the crop to grow, and paid for his own supplies
share-tenancy
300
Federal intervention in the South ended when who became president?
Rutherford B Hayes
300
Legislations requiring a majority of a state's prewar voters to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin
Wade-Davis Bill
300
T or F Violators of the Enforcement Acts of 1870 were fined $500 and could be imprisoned for at least 1 month
True
400
What did President Johnson do that led to the House of Representatives to impeach him?
Tried firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
400
What did the Enforcement Act of 1870 make illegal?
the use of force or coercion to prevent citizens from voting
400
The cost of military operations in the South worried many Northerners leading to what?
fading Northern support for reconstruction in the South
400
Redeemer
southern politicians who worked to unit white southerners to regain power in Congress
400
This man was the Liberal Republican Party candidate who ran against Grant in the 1872 President Elections
Horace Greeley
500
What was General Sherman's plan for reconstruction?
Confiscate southern lands and give "forty acres and a mule" to every freedman
500
Land owners lying about the expenses to keep farmers in debt was a major problem with what system of post slavery farming?
share cropping
500
The splitting of the women's suffrage movement was a direct result of what?
Fifteenth Amendment
500
Compromise of 1877 (List 3 out of the 4 things agreed upon with this compromise)
Agreement that saw Hayes (R) become president, federal troops removed from the South, funding for the South's infrastructure, and the appointment of a Democrat to Post Master General
500
How did Southern Democrats appeal to small farmers?
said schools + roads= higher taxes
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