Plans for Reconstruction
1) What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?
10% plan—only 10% have to take an oath of allegiance, military governors, lenient
5) What did Black codes do?
Severely limited the rights of black people (for example where they could live, work, and travel)
9) Why was Johnson opposed to plantation owners?
Because he was a poor Southerner
18) What did the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) do?
Targeted blacks and white Republicans and lynched freedmen
22) What kept happening to discredit Grant?
Various scandals
13) What was sharecropping AND who participated in it?
Sharecropping was a system of farming where poor blacks and poor whites rented land to farm
6) What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do?
Helped former slaves and refugees
8) What did President Johnson keep doing to bills that would help African Americans AND what did Congress do with Johnson’s decisions?
He vetoed them and Congress kept overriding the vetoes
14) What made sharecropping unfair?
The tenant farmers could get any labor they wanted at every time, could force farmers to grow certain crops, and took the pay first and charged a fee for selling
20) What was problematic with President Grant’s administration?
He had untrustworthy friends and associates
3) What were 3 motives of the radical republicans?
1) Secure the rights of African Americans, 2) Revenge, and 3) Control
17) What is disenfranchisement?
Denial of the right to vote
10) Why was Johnson impeached?
Because he broke the Tenure of Office Act by trying to remove Edwin Stanton
15) Who were the carpetbaggers?
Northerners who came South during Reconstruction
24) Who was Thomas Nast?
Political cartoonist who attacked Tweed
2) The Radical Republicans wanted to pass the Wade-Davis Bill. What were 2 components of this bill?
1) Military governors until 50% of adult white males signed oath of allegiance and 2) New state constitutions with several required provisions
25) Who were the Redeemers?
Southerners who wanted to “redeem” the South from African Americans and white Republicans
26) Why did Hayes win the presidency (what compromise was made)?
Because he agreed to remove the last federal troops from the South and in turn Southern democrats let the contested votes be counted in Hayes favor.
16) Who were the scalawags?
Southerners who cooperated with carpetbaggers during Reconstruction
23) Who was Boss Tweed?
Basically controlled New York’s politics, involved with extreme financial fraud, bribes, etc.
4) What was Johnson’s Plan?
Amnesty to Southerners who would swear loyalty to the Union (except for the wealthiest who would apply to the President), required state conventions, more like Lincoln’s plan
7) What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
Granted freemen full citizenship and full protection of the laws and restricted voting or holding office on some former Confederates among other things
12) Even though Johnson was not a great President, why was it important that he was not kicked out of office?
It is important because it set a precedent that you can’t just get rid of President because he is disliked
19) What was one reason from the lecture why it was hard to stop the KKK?
Because the local law enforcement often could or would not deal with the KKK
21) What did the 15th Amendment do?
Guaranteed that “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” would not cause a man’s right to vote to be revoked