Reconstruction and the Presidents
What are the 3 R's of Reconstruction?
Rebuilding, Restoring, Reuniting.
What are three things that were segregated as a result of the Jim Crow Laws?
Schools, trains, water fountains, theaters, hospitals, libraries, etc.
What are three examples of Black Codes?
What is, poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, Jim Crow Laws, Separate but equal, or other state-specific examples
What was the military occupation of the South called?
What is the 5 military zones
What Reconstruction plan was too easy and which one was too hard?
Lincoln's plan and the Wade-Davis Bill
According to Reconstruction, what are two components of Lincoln's 10% plan?
10% of the Southern voting population has to swear an oath of loyalty to the US, Lincoln pardoned the Confederates, Lincoln allowed them to keep their land and lifestyle.
What are three ways that African Americans were prevented from voting?
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause.
What did the Transcontinental Railroad do for the United States? (Hint: it did more than connect the east and west)
It led the United States to an industrial revolution (industrialized the US is also acceptable)
50% of the Southern voting population has to swear an oath of loyalty to the US.
What did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments do?
These "Civil War" amendments abolished slavery, gave all African Americans United States citizenship and civil rights, and allowed males over the age of 21 to vote.
How did Reconstruction end?
What is the Compromise of 1877, or the removal of the soldiers from the South.
What plan for Reconstruction was the best one and the one that was used?
What is the Radical Republican Plan.
What was Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
Andrew Johnson promised to be strict on the south but went back on his promises. He was a southern slave owner.
This gave newly freed slaves and poor whites benefits including medical care, jobs, and an education.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
A test that was given to Southerners in order for them to vote.
What is literacy tests?
*Daily Double* According to the Compromise of 1877, Democrats promised to choose this man as the new President if he promised to remove the military from the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Who were the 17th, 18th, and 19th presidents?
Andrew Johnson, Ulysses Grant, Hayes
What are 3 things that the Radical Republicans did for Reconstruction?
The Radical Republicans ratified the 13th-15th amendments, they destroyed the planter class and redistributed land, and they established the 5 military zones in the South.
What was/is the Ku Klux Klan (think about Black Codes) and who did they harm?
The KKK is an organization that was an effect of Black Codes in the South. The KKK harmed both African Americans and Southern whites who sided with them.
These people were given tools and land in exchange for a share of the harvest, which sometimes wasn't much.
What are sharecroppers?
What are Southerns who supported or sided with the north during Reconstruction called?
Scalawags
Provide the who/what/where/when/why for the Jim Crow Laws.
What - This is the legal segregation between whites and coloreds
Where - Throughout the country but the South is also acceptable
When - 100 years
Why - To limit the civil rights of African Americans by segregation, segregation alone is also acceptable