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History Reconstruction
NEED TO KNOW TO GET A GOOD GRADE ON QUIZ
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7th Grade
03/02/2009

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In Lincoln's plan, who should take charge of Reconstruction?
Definition

President

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In Lincoln's plan, how should Reconstruction be carried out?
Definition
The South should be brought back into the Union quickly.
Term
How should Southern states be readmitted to the Union?
Definition
When 10% or more of the voters in a state occupied by the Union army had taken an oath, they were authroized to form a loyal government that abolished slavery. Then the state could rejoin the Union.
Term
In the Radical Republican plan, who should take charge of Reconstruction?
Definition
Congress
Term
How should Reconstruction be carried out in the Radical Republican plan?
Definition
punish the south
Term
In the Radical Republican plan, how should Southern states be readmitted to the Union?
Definition
When enough states ratified the Amendment to make it part of the US Constitution, each state complying with the preceding steps could be readmitted to the Union.
Term
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Definition
feed and care for both needy blacks and whites. help former slaves find jobs and protect them from discrimination.
Term
Name 2 schools founded by the Freedmen's Bureau.
Definition
Howard University and Hampton Institute
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2 famous Radical republicans during Reconstruction were
Definition
Steven and SUMNER!
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Name 3 bills Johnson vetoed that Congress was able to override
Definition

Civil Rights Act of 1886

Freedmen's Bureau bill

14th Amendment

Term

Tell what right each amendment gave and the date of ratification: 13, 14, 15

Definition

13: freed the slaves, Dec. 865

14: 1868, All person's born or naturalized in the US are citizens of the US & of the state where in they reside

15: Feb. 1869, prohibited federal and state govt from denying the role to anyone of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude

Term
What was the name of the law passed by Congress to limit the power of Pres. Johnson? What did it do/say? What did Johnson do as a response to Congress' actions?
Definition
The Tenure of Office Act prohibited the pres. from firing Cabinet officers and other high executive officials without Senate approval. He ordered Grant to replace Secretary of War (Stanton). Johnson then violated the Tenure of Office Act by appointing a new secretary of war, Thomas.
Term

Former Conf. political leadrs were replaced by blax & wat 2 new groups of leadrs during Radical Reconstruction? Give the name and tell who made up each group.

Definition

Carpetbaggers- northerners who moved South after the war.

Scalawags- Southerners who participated in Reconstruction

Term

2 blak men that represented Mississippi in the Senate during reconstruction?

Definition

Revels and Bruce

Term
Blacks were turned away from____
Definition
hotels, restaurants, or other public places that served white
Term
Efforts were made to
Definition
segregate public transportation
Term
wat group was formd 2 end reconstruction by using terorism and wat types of things did they do?
Definition
Ku Klux klan used teror 2 shatter Reconstruction & try to restore wite supremacy by beating, farring and feathering, and even hanging.
Term
Name the law that COngress passed as a response to terrorism in the SOuth in 1870 and 1871 and tell wat it said
Definition
Force acts- made it a federal crime to interfere with voting rights and they established ways for the govt to supervise elections
Term
Lincoln believed that the southern states had not seceded because
Definition
no state could legally leave the Union
Term
Lincoln made a speech called ______________ and his plan 4 recunstruction was______________and ______________
Definition
Proclamation of Amnesty, b easy on South, regain her loyalty
Term
after lincoln
Definition
johnson
Term
y was johnson unique and wat was a result of it?
Definition
he was the only southern senator to remain loyal to the Union when his state seceded. chosen to b lincolns running mate in the 1864 re election.
Term
Johnson strongly believed wat
Definition
the fed. system should b restored 2 way it had been b4 the war
Term
the only changes 2 make were
Definition
make slavery illegal and say that no state could secede
Term
Reconstruction Act
Definition
divided the South into 5 military districts. under army control
Term
Johnson angered Congress when he vetoed wat
Definition
Reconstruction Act
Term
Impeachment trial of Johnson
Definition
11 charges brot against him on each charge found not guilty by 1 vote
Term
Democrat representer
Definition
Tilden NY
Term
Repub Representer
Definition
Hayes OH
Term
 Who won election? Wat was the electoral vote? with which states?
Definition
Tilden, 203-165, ny, nj, ct, in, and all southern states
Term

What did the Republicans do and how did the democrats react?

Definition

changed electoral votes in 3 states they controlled so Hayes could win. Demos protested and a special commission was set up to decide the issue.

Term
Compromise of 1877
Definition
  • Hayes would remove all fed. troops from the South
  • would appoint a conservative Southerner to his Cabinet
  • sympathized with a southern plan to build a railroad from TX to CA.
  • S Demos promised not to prevent blacks from voting and exercising their rights.
Term
What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877?
Definition
Whites in the North turned their bax on the blax in the south and slowly the southern states broke their promises to treat them fairly
Term
How did the Compromise of 1877 affect blax?
Definition
  • segregation increased in the North
  • voting rights were taken away
  • blax were treated badly in the courts and on their jobs
Term
y were the newly elected leadrs called redeemers?
Definition
Southerners believed these new leadrs had rescued the S from evils of Republican Rule
Term
2 goals of Redeemers
Definition

white supremacy

economic progress

Term
name of booker t washintons speech and wat it said
Definition
up from slavery stressed importance of patience training, and hard work. "no race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. its @ the botom of life we begin, and not @ the top"
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how did most wites and some blax feel about Washingtons speech? wat did educated blax feel, who was the main opponent of washingtons views?
Definition
many whites and some blax welcomd the speech. While washington workd bhind the scenes to advance equality, other blak leadrs wanted 2 b more agressive. WEB DU BOIS was washingtons main opponent
Term
What laws passed in the South helped to create a segregated society? What was the name of the Supreme Court ruling that supported these laws and what did it say? Give the date.
Definition
Jim Crow laws. btwn 1875& 1896 the Supr. C. ruled on several cases affecting blax these rulings basically set aside the reconstruction amendments and the laws passed to enforce them 1896 case (plessy vs ferguson) segregation was not necessarily discrimination as long as the separate accomadations were equal.
Term
literacy test
Definition
having a voter read and explain a passage. something difficult was often chosen. Anyone who failed the test couldn't vote
Term
poll tax
Definition
a charge for voting since most blax were poor many couldnt afford to vote
Term
grandfather clause
Definition
declared neither literacy tests nor poll taxes applied to persons who could vote on or b4 jan. 1 1867 or whose father or grandfather could vote then most wites were allowed to vote and most blax werent
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