Rebuilding the Nation
The man who shot Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
When this President appointed his friends to public offices, they were unqualified and corrupt.
President Grant
Southern whites who opposed secession
What were black codes?
New laws used by Southern states to control African Americans.
TRUE of FALSE: President Lincoln was angry at the South, so he wanted to make it difficult for them to come back into the Union.
False
TWO pieces of evidence that education was important to newly freed slaves
They traveled long distances to attend school.
African Americans pooled their pennies together to pay teachers.
Freedmen wanted to learn to read and write.
What DIDN'T you have to do if your father or grandfather was able to vote before January 1, 1867
Pass a literacy test in order to vote
Who got the right to vote in the 15th amendment?
African American MALES
What were carpetbaggers?
Northern whites who went south to start businesses or run for political offices.
Who won the election of 1868?
General Ulysses S. Grant
The TWO groups of people amnesty did NOT apply to.
Confederate government leaders and top Confederate military officers
As a result of Plessy vs Ferguson, schools had to be integrated with both white and black students.
False
True or false: An official who is impeached is removed from office.
FALSE - impeachment is just the bringing of charges. The official may or may not be removed.
Which amendment banned slavery and forced labor?
The 13th amendment
Why did many freedmen and poor whites become locked in a cycle of poverty?
They didn't earn enough money to pay back their debt, so they had to keep working.
People who fought for the South were not allowed to vote according to this bill.
The Wade-Davis Bill
Someone who farms land for the owner, in exchange for part of the crop.
A sharecropper
According to the 14th amendment, all people who are _____________________________________ are citizens.
BORN or NATURALIZED in the United States
According to the Civil Rights Act of 1866, who GOT civil rights and who DID NOT GET civil rights?
African Americans got civil rights, but Native Americans did not get civil rights.
What did Congress do when it didn't like President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Appointed a committee to form a new plan
Give both parts of Lincoln's 10% plan.
10% of state's voters would swear an oath of loyalty to the United States.
The state would have to declare an end to slavery.
What were THREE ways southern states deprived African Americans of their rights?
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Jim Crow Laws
Name THREE key elements of Radical Reconstruction.
Southern states had to write new constitutions.
States had to ratify the 14th amendment.African American males had the right to vote.
Name all three parts of President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
Allowed Southern states to organize new governments.
Allowed Southern states to elect representatives to Congress.
Each state was required to abolish slavery.
To make Reconstruction easier to carry out, what did radicals want to do?
Remove President Jackson from office.