Reconstruction

Question 1

What was the Radical Republicans reconstruction plan?

Answer 1

Motive - Revenge and Punishment for the South

3 Step Plan

• The statements have a majority of its population taken most of loyalty to have a government
• No Confederate military leaders or officials would be allowed in the new government
• The statements formally demolish slavery

Question 2

What was Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plan?

Answer 2

4 Step Plan

• Pardons will be given to those took the oath
• Pardons were not available to high Confederate military leaders and officials or landowners who had property that is greater than $20,000
• Estate had to formally abolish slavery before being readmitted to the union
• A state had to repeal succession before being admitted again

Question 3

What is the definition of pardon?

Answer 3

The release of a penalty from an offense.

Question 4

What liberties does the 13th Amendment give?

Answer 4

The 13th amendment states that slavery is illegal. It also says that going to prison does not come to slavery.

Question 5

What liberties does the 14th Amendment give?

Answer 5

The 14th amendment states that all men born in the US, no matter race or color, have citizenship.

Question 6

What was Abraham Lincoln’s plan?

Answer 6

Motive - wanted to rebuild fast

3 Step Plan

• Amnesty would be given to all the pledge to be a federal laws about slavery and given oath of loyalty to the US
• Hi Confederate officials and leaders were excluded from this process
• When 10% of voters who participated in the 1860 election took the oath and that’s they could have a government again

Question 7

What liberties does the 15th Amendment give?

Answer 7

The 15th amendment gives all man, no matter race or color the right to vote.

Question 8

What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Answer 8

• Was when the Confederate Sates refused to ratify the new amendments
• All confederate officials were kicked out of office
• Congress rewrote state constitutions
• Congress sent federal troops down to enforce new amendments

Question 9

What were Carpetbaggers?

Answer 9

Carpetbaggers were Northerners who came down to the South to make money or run from office. This took jobs and offices away from Southerners which made them angry.

Question 10

What were Scalawags?

Answer 10

A Scalawag is a southerner who stayed loyal to the union during the war and retained their right to vote and run for office because of that.

Question 11

Who supervise the South during Reconstruction?

Answer 11

Northern soldiers

Question 12

What was the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau?

Answer 12

It was created to help former slaves start a new life in the South.

Question 13

How did the Freedman’s Bureau support former slaves?

Answer 13

Gave them…

• food
• medicine
• emergency aid (money)
• schooling

Question 14

Who could hold office and South after the war?

Answer 14

• Carpetbaggers
• Scalawags
• African Americans

Question 15

Who could not hold office in the South after the war?

Answer 15

• Southern and military leaders or officials

- Confederate soldiers

Question 16

What were Sharecroppers?

Answer 16

Sharecroppers were African-Americans who lived on a land owners land for free and in return harvesting crops and give the majority of it to the land owner as payment.

Question 17

What was the KKK?

Answer 17

The KKK was a racist group of former white Confederate soldiers who caused harm to African-Americans because they had to the right to vote and KKK members didn’t.

Question 18

What were black codes?

Answer 18

Black codes for states also put restrictions on former slaves on landownership, curfews, careers, and moving about.

Question 19

What were Jim Crow laws?

Answer 19

• Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in public
• Pass to discriminate against African-Americans and other non-white citizens
• Examples include poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and the “separate but equal” ruling

Question 20

What was the poll tax?

Answer 20

The poll tax was a tax on African-Americans who wished to vote. It was a extremely large amount of money they had to pay in addition to a literacy test to be allowed to vote.

Question 21

What was a literacy test?

Answer 21

A literacy test was an unfair obstacle in the way of her can Americans be allowed to vote. It was impossible to pass because of all the trick questions on it.

Question 22

What was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?

Answer 22

Plessy vs. Ferguson case was brought up to the Supreme Court where they ruled that different races could be separated as long as the facilities were “separate but equal.”

Question 23

What legacy did Robert E Lee have?

Answer 23

• Became president of Washington College which is now called Washington-Lee College
• Encouraged Southerners to reunite with the North after the war
• Opposed slavery but didn’t want to turn his back on his home state

Question 24

What lasting legacy’s did Abraham Lincoln have?

Answer 24

• Made sure preserving the Union was more important than pushing the South
• Called for conciliation after the war and made people think to put your country first rather than your state