FAMILY FEUD
What Southern law limited the rights of African Americans to counter act the 14th Amendment?
black code
Define the 13th Amendment.
Banned slavery throughout the nation.
Which president did the House of Representatives vote to impeach on February 24, 1868?
Andrew Johnson
The end of Reconstruction ended with the Presidential Election of 1876. Who were the candidates?
Samuel Tilden (D) from New York and Rutherford B. Hayes (R) from Ohio.
White Southern Republicans
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
What does the 14th Amendment guarantee citizens?
"Equal protection of the law".
Andrew Johnson was not impeached. How many votes was the house short?
Just 1
The Presidential Election of 1876 ended in controversy. Who won and what the candidate promise in order to win valuable state electoral votes>
Rutherford B. Hayes, he promised to withdraw Union soldiers from southern states.
Define carpetbaggers.
White southerners who supported Republican (Union) during Reconstruction.
What law excused someone from taking the literacy test if their grandfather previously voted?
The Grandfather Clause
What does the 15th Amendment provide African American men?
The right to vote regardless of race.
Many southern states passed laws to limit African Americans from voting. How did the poll tax effect voting?
It required voters to pay a fee each time they voted. Many African Americans could not afford this tax.
Name the three states that had disputed electoral votes.
Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina
What was the main agenda of the Klu Klux Klan?
To intimidate and frighten African Americans so as to limit their involvement in government. Also, reinstate white democratic southerners back into power.
What are five examples of Jim Crow Laws?
Separation between races at schools, restaurants, hospitals, playgrounds, public transportation, theaters, cemeteries to name of few.
The Freedmen's Bureau bill provided several items to former slaves. Name three items.
Food, clothing, jobs, housing, medical care, set up schools...
How did poor, illiterate white southerners get around the literacy test for voting?
The grandfather clause stated that if their grandfather had previously voted, they were exempt from taking the reading and writing test.
How many additional electoral votes did Samuel Tilden need to win the Presidential Election of 1876?
1
Why did sharecroppers often end up in debt?
Sharecroppers often could not sell their crops for enough to repay what they borrowed, so debt grew.
What political party enacted Jim Crow laws?
White Democratic Southerners
The 14th Amendment voided which Supreme Court decision?
Dredd Scott v. Sandford
Who was Homer Plessy and what did he do that caused Supreme Court judges to rule?
He was one eighth black and could not sit in the white section of a train. He did and was arrested. He sued based on the 13th and 14th amendments. He eventually lost his case.
How many electoral votes were in dispute in the 1876 Presidential Election?
20
Define amnesty.
A government pardon