Vocab
These were restrictive laws passed by Southern states in 1865 - 1866, to restrict the freedom of African Americans and force them back into labor. These laws enforced racial segregation, forced employment through vagrancy statutes, and restricted rights to own property, marry and vote.
Black Codes
Name this person: initiated a plan to distribute confiscated Confederate coastal land to formerly enslaved families in 40 - acre plots.
Hint: Commonly referred to as "40 acres and a mule"
William T Sherman
What was the purpose of President Lincoln’s “10 Percent Plan"
a. his idea for instituting an income tax
b. how to draft more men into the Union army
c. quickly and easily allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union
d. his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South
C - His plan was proposed in 1863 but was not accepted.
What significant action did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 establish, contradicting and overturning the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision?
a. Protected rights of Black men to vote
b. Protected citizenship rights for African Americans
c. Protected against voter intimidation in Southern states
d. Protected the redistribution of land to freedmen
B. - The Dred Scott decision ruled that Black people were NOT citizens and NOT afforded the same rights to sue for their own freedom in court.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 protected Black citizenship rights, ensured protection of all civil liberties and gives African Americans right to sue in court.
What was the name of the assassin who killed Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
This was established by Congress to aid millions of formerly enslaved people and Southern refugees in transitioning to freedom and citizenship.
It would be abolished by Congress in later years.
Freedmen's Bureau
This person is known as the "Father of American Cartoon"
He published political cartoons in Puck magazine and Harper's Weekly. He was deeply involved in political issues, often a member of the Republican party.
Hint: He created the modern image of Santa Claus as "jolly", the Republican elephant and Republican donkey.
(Assignment this week*)
Thomas Nast
Which of the following was NOT a reported initiative of the Freedmen's Bureau?
a. Delivering food to poor Black and white farmers
b. Helping freedmen gain independence from labor contracts
c. Providing financial compensation to former slaveholders
d. Establishing public schools and helping to reunify family members
C - The Freedmen's Bureau WOULD NOT provide financial compensation to former slaveholders. CRITICAL THINKING
What action did Congress take in 1870 and 1871 to end the wave of terror during Reconstruction?
a. They abolished the Freedmen's Bureau
b. They passed the Enforcement Acts/ KKK Acts
c. They granted amnesty to former Confederates
d. They removed federal troops from the four remaining Southern states
B - The Enforcement Acts/ KKK Acts allowed President Grant to use federal troops to suppress any anti - Black activity
What was the primary issue between President Johnson and Congress?
a. They disagreed about how the South should be rejoined to the Union
b. They disagreed about states rights and taxation
c. They disagreed about the constitutionality of Black Codes
d. They disagreed about the ratification of the 13th Amendment
A
During the second phase of Reconstruction, Republicans dominated Congress and urged the federal gov't to deploy troops to break up which organization?
Klu Klux Klan
This Secretary of War was fired by Andrew Johnson.
Edwin Stanton
During Reconstruction, many Southern gov't passed Black Codes and other restrictions on Black voting rights.
What were the TWO ways Southern gov't placed barriers in the way of Black men voting?
Literacy tests
Poll tax
What was the long-term impact of segregation in the South?
a. It improved educational opportunities for African Americans
b. It led to a new struggle for racial equality for African Americans
c. It resulted in the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments
d. It ended racial discrimination and inequality
B
Identify the TWO events which showed Congress that the South needs to be in stricter control to protect the Black population of the South facing violence and hatred.
Memphis Race Riot (1866)
New Orleans Massacre (1866)
What are the differences between a 'Scalawag' and a 'Carpetbagger'?
Scalawag is someone who is from the South and goes up North during Reconstruction
Carpetbagger is someone who is from the North and moves down South during Reconstruction
This person is best known as a pioneering investigative journalist and fearless anti - lynching activist in the late 1890s.
Ida B Wells
What is the term for the segregation laws put in place after Reconstruction ended?
Jim Crow Laws
Support for Blacks was seen most heavily from which political party?
Republicans
The term "_______________________" referred to the period when Southern Democrats started to retake control of their state governments.
Redemption
Answer the following:
a. Name the 16th, 17th and 18th Presidents
b. Which Reconstruction era amendment applied to suffrage?
c. Was stinky Andrew Jackson impeached?
a. Lincoln, Johnson and Grant
b. 15th
c. NO -- be careful its ANDREW JOHNSON but he also wasn't impeached. President Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act. The Senate fell one vote short of the required two-thirds majority to convict, resulting in acquittal.
Following the Civil War, the first two black men elected to Congress were _______________________, a Senator from Mississippi and Representative _______________________, from South Carolina.
Hiram Revels
Joseph Rainey
Which of the following BEST describes the impact of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
a. Divided the South into five districts and sent troops to ensure Southerners gave Blacks equal rights and mandated the Southern states create new constitutions including the 14th Amendment
b. Created new state constitutions for all Southern states, and mandated that each state ratify and accept it before being admitted
c. Readmitted all Southern states provided they ratify the 14th Amendment and allowed for the restitution of previous state gov'ts
d. Declared Southern states conquered territory, redrew their boundaries, and mandated they apply for statehood after ten years of Federal control
A
Which of the following Supreme Court cases was overturned with the passage of the 14th Amendment?
A. Marbury v Madison
B. Worcester v Georgia
C. Brown v Board of Education
D. Dred Scott v Sandford
D
What triggered the huge financial panic in September 1873?
a. The end of the cotton trade with Europe
b. A collapse in the US railroad industry
c. The high cost of the Freedmen's Bureau
d. The impeachment of President Johnson
B