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100
Who became president immediately after Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
Andrew Johnson
100
Who was elected president in 1868 during this phase of Reconstruction?
Ulysses S. Grant
100
Who was elected president in 1876?
Rutherford B. Hayes
100
What was the 13th Amendment?
Constitutional amendment which abolished slavery.
100
Where did the Civil War end? (place)
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
200
Name 3 services provided by the Freedman's Bureau.
education, food & medical, help finding work
200
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
Northerners who moved to the South to help rebuild the region; Southerners who cooperated with federal Reconstruction efforts.
200
What were the Enforcement Acts?
3 laws passed by Congress to combat terrorism against African-Americans.
200
What was the 14th Amendment?
Constitutional amendment which provided equal protection under the law for all citizens.
200
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Terrorist organization that used violence to scare blacks into keeping quiet, staying away from the polls, and submitting to white power.
300
Explain 40 acres & a mule.
Plan to break up planatations and give each former slave 40 acres and a mule as payment for years of unpaid labor.
300
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Law that declared freedmen to be full citizens with the same rights as whites; vetoed by Johnson; Congress overrode veto.
300
What was the Amnesty Act of 1872?
Law that forgave the South for its past offenses; allowed former Confederates to vote again.
300
What was the 15th Amendment?
Constitutional amendment which gave African-American men the right to vote.
300
Which U.S. President was impeached during Congressional Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
400
What was the primary purpose of the Black Codes?
To prevent African-Americans from making too much social, political, and economic progress.
400
What was the Military Reconstruction Act?
Divided the South into military districts; federal troops were sent; new state governments were formed; undid much of Johnson's work.
400
Explain the Disputed Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877.
Close presidential vote; Republicans give election to Hayes; federal troops withdrawn from South and they control their own affairs again.
400
What were Jim Crow laws? Explain how they worked.
Laws in Southern states that made racial segregation legal.
400
Who was Ulysses S. Grant? (3 parts)
1) 18th president 2) Civil war hero 3) favored civil rights for African-Americans
500
What were President Johnson's requirements for former Confederate states to rejoin the Union?
Write a new state constitution; elect a new state government; repeal act of secession; cancel war debt; ratify 13th amendment.
500
Explain sharecropping.
Planters divided their land into small plots and rented these plots to tenant farmers; most paid for their rent by giving the landowner a share of the crop; system of poverty and debt was born.
500
Explain the poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause, and why they were significant.
Poll Tax: laws requiring voters to pay before voting. Literacy Test: test requiring voters to be literate. Grandfather Clause: poll tax and literacy test does not apply to those whose father/grandfather could vote before January 1867. Loopholes used to disenfranchise African-Americans.
500
Name 2 rights provided and 2 rights denied to African-Americans under the Black Codes.
Provided: marriage, ownership of property, work for wages, sue in court Denied: vote, serve on jury
500
What is Plessy v. Ferguson and why was it significant?
Supreme Court case; African-Americans challenged Jim Crow laws; case was lost and Jim Crow persisted in the South