Effects of Civil War
After the Civil War, it was clear that ______ law reigned supreme over state law.
What is federal?
This Reconstruction plan specifically called for education for African Americans.
What is Lincoln's Plan (the 10% Plan)?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction efforts were called:
What is scalawags?
The goal of the New South was to ______ the Southern economy.
What is diversify?
Crazy difficult tests Black men were expected to pass before voting were called:
What is a literacy test?
Describe the economy of former Confederate states directly after the Civil War.
What is, they were broke?
Radical Republicans wanted to ______ southern states and former Confederates.
What is punish?
Northerners who moved South to help with the Freedmen's Bureau, gain political office, or open new businesses were referred to as:
What are carpetbaggers?
He is responsible for bringing tourism to Florida.
Who is Henry Flagler?
Paying a fee to vote is called a:
What is a poll tax?
After the Civil War, Republicans grappled with what ______ to "give" African Americans?
What is rights?
This Reconstruction Plan said that southern states must ratify the 13th Amendment to rejoin the Union.
What is Johnson's Plan (Presidential Reconstruction)?
The term for when the military is brought in to oversee and rule states and territories.
What is martial law?
This system provided forced labor to build railroads in the South:
What is convict leasing?
Proving that an ancestor voted during or before the Civil War was called a:
What is a grandfather clause?
Following the Civil War, abolitionists in Congress were called:
What is Radical Republicans?
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to overturn these laws.
What are black codes?
The term for putting the country back together again.
What is Reconstruction?
Southern states struggled to find skilled laborers to support industrialization because many southerners were:
What is illiterate (could not read/write)?
Southern states had laws requiring segregated public spaces, arguing that separate but ______ did not violate the Constitution.
What is "equal"?
This problem divided Republicans after the Civil War:
What is "how to bring former Confederate states back into the Union"?
President Johnson was impeached because he:
What is "interfered with Reconstruction"?
This is the term for an endless cycle of debt that was almost impossible to escape:
What is "debt peonage"?
This is considered the official "death" of Reconstruction, when all federal troops were removed from the South and Rutherford B. Hayes became President.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Supreme Court case became the legal justification for Jim Crow.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?