Reconstruction 1865-1877

Miscellaneous

100

This group supported white supremacy

Ku Klux Klan

200

This person was impeached by Congress

Andrew Johnson

300

This law allowed people to vote only if their fathers and grandfathers could vote before Reconstruction

Grandfather Clause

400

This Reconstruction plan required the southern states to pay war debt after Civil War

Andre Johnson's Plan

500

During Radical Reconstruction blacks made great gains in these two areas

politics and education

Amendments/Acts

100

What did the 13th amendment do for African Americans?

abolished slavery

200

What did the 14th amendment do for African Americans?

gave citizenship, also stated that states can't take away people's civil rights - rights  to property, serve on jury etc.

300

The 15th amendment gave African Americans the right to 

vote

400

What year was the Civil Rights Acts passed

1866

500

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

removing the army from the South 

Political Reconstruction

100

Lincoln's main goal for Reconstruction under 10% plan was

to restore the Union as quickly and painlessly as possible

200

This political group wanted harsher Reconstruction measures in the South

Radical Republicans

300

Which Reconstruction plan divided the South into 5 military districts

Radical Republicans' plan

400

President Lincoln's and President Johnson's plans both were considered as too lenient

TRUE or FALSE

True

500

White southerners who supported radical republican policies in the south were

Scalawags

Economic Reconstruction

100

Most common form/system of farm work for former slaves during Reconstruction was

sharecropping

200

In agriculture the economic Reconstruction  goal was

small farms and growing different crops

300

In industry the economic Reconstruction goal was

support different industries: tobacco, textile mills, iron, steel. Building of railroads.

400

Northerners who moved south after Civil War to take advantage of economic opportunities were

Carpetbaggers

500

Economic development in the South remained slow, in agriculture the single crop farming - cotton stayed dominant.

TRUE or FALSE

TRUE

Social Reconstruction

100

What was Freedmen's Bureau?

Organization that assisted former slaves with transition into society (education, land, food)

200

Laws that implemented in the South to restrict African Americans' rights ate the beginning of Reconstruction 

Black Codes

300

Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses were all means to prevent African Americans from 

voting

400

This group used intimidation and violence against blacks 

Ku Klux Klan

500

This law led to segregation of races by the late 1800s

Jim Crow Laws