Amendments & Laws
What numbers were the Reconstruction amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th
What is the name of the codes used in Southern states that were determined to return relations between races as they were before the war? (By limiting one race)
Black Codes
Who was the first black man to be elected to the U.S. Congress from any state?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
What organization provided good, medical services, and transportation money to poor whites and blacks?
Freedmen’s Bureau
What was the fastest growing church in the South during Reconstruction?
Baptist
What amendment to the US Constitution freed nearly 4 million slaves?
The 13th amendment
Which group did NOT have power in the South during Reconstruction?
African Americans, Carpetbaggers, Democrats, Scalawags
Democrats
Who was South Carolina’s first black lieutenant governor?
Alonzo Jacob Ransier
Which President’s reconstruction plan pardoned former confederate officials?
Andrew Johnson
Where did most former slaves work after the war? (Two Answers)
Farm or House Servant
What did the 15th amendment grant to African American males?
Right to vote
During Reconstruction the __________ party was in control of the federal government and SC’s state government.
Republican
This man was a black attorney who was elected to serve as a justice on SC’s Supreme Court.
Johnathan J. Wright
What caused the Republican’s loss of support in the north?
Democratic political propaganda
The _________ system returned agricultural production to prewar levels through unfair treatment of freedmen.
Sharecrop
Which amendment granted citizenship to all people born within the United States?
14th
Who was appointed as SC‘s temporary governor after the Civil War ended?
__________, the first black graduate of Harvard, became the first black professor at the University of South Carolina.
Richard T. Greener
True or False : The federal government did NOT accept the responsibility to rebuild the economy of the South after the war.
True
Define Amnesty
Pardon to a large group of people
Which amendment did not have to be ratified for Southern States to rejoin the Union?
13th
Who eventually won the disputed governor election of 1876 in SC?
Wade Hampton III
Reconstruction ended in South Carolina with the election of ___________ as president.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Black Codes were invalidated by what legislative act passed in 1866?
Civil Rights Act Of 1866
Serious downturn in the economy