5950779301 | scalawag | white Southerner who joined the Republican Party | 0 | |
5950782722 | Carpetbaggers | Northerner who moved to the South after the war | 1 | |
5950785208 | Sharecropping | system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for part of their crop | 2 | |
5950793636 | tenant farming | renting land from landowners for cash | 3 | |
5950804801 | Problem: Physical Devastation | Attempted Solution: Reconstruction | 4 | |
5950810875 | Problem: former slaves separated from their families | Attempted Solution: Records | 5 | |
5950813655 | Problem: lack of education | Attempted Solution: schools | 6 | |
5950816665 | Problem: lack of land | Attempted Solution: Explore new land | 7 | |
5950821902 | Problem: planters faced a labor shortage | Attempted solution: make machines | 8 | |
5950834240 | reconstruction | 10 year period (to build); 1867-1877 (rebuild the south) | 9 | |
5950850895 | Explain the circumstances surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln | 1865, five days after the surrender in Appomattox Court House, a confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president as he attended a play at Ford's theater | 10 | |
5950867715 | Who took over the office after Lincoln was killed | Andrew Johnson | 11 | |
5950869436 | solid south | the south traditionally voted for democrats | 12 | |
5950874609 | Rutherford B Hayes | in 1876 he became president | 13 | |
5950880491 | terror groups | people who tried to keep the ex slaves from voting | 14 | |
5950886165 | freedmen's bureau | organization that helped the ex slaves adjust to being citizens | 15 | |
5950889047 | impeachment | trying a political official for a crime | 16 | |
5950892473 | 15th amendment | gave the right to vote | 17 | |
5950898631 | 14th amendment | gave ex slaves their citizenship | 18 | |
5950901203 | radical republicans | they control congress and they wanted to be hard on the south | 19 | |
5950904894 | black codes | laws that southerners passed that restricted the ex slaves | 20 | |
5950909121 | 13th amendment | outlaw slavery | 21 | |
5950915334 | compromise of 1877 | this ended reconstruction | 22 | |
5950918570 | John Wilkes Booth | killed Abraham Lincoln | 23 | |
5950962709 | What was Lincoln's plan to bring the south back into the union | to prove sympathetic to the south and reconstruction | 24 | |
5951052467 | What was the plan called and what does it mean | Presidential Reconstruction. It means swear allegiance, hold constitutional convention, ratify the 13th amendment, and states could hold elections and be part of the union | 25 | |
5951070226 | What percent of the eligible voters had to take the oath begore the state could rejoin the Union | 51 percent | 26 | |
5951078710 | What amendment's passage was reqyured to come back in? What did the amendment do? | The 13th Amendment passage was required to come back in. The 13th Amendment ended slavery throughout the United States. | 27 | |
5951088121 | How long did Reconstruction last? | 10 years. 1867-1877 | 28 | |
5951101223 | What were Black Codes | Black codes were laws that limited the rights of freed black slaves so much they basically still lived as slaves | 29 | |
5951113233 | The radical republicans wanted_______ percent of voters to take the oath to rejoin the Union. | 51 | 30 | |
5951115320 | Why was President Johnson impeached? | He violated the Tenure in Office Act, which limited the President's power to hire and fire government officials. | 31 | |
5951127133 | What was the verdict of Johnson's trial? | Johnson was found not guilty | 32 | |
5951132829 | Who is Edmund G Ross | the man who found Johnson innocent | 33 | |
5951138782 | What is the difference between share cropping and tenant farming? | Share cropping is the selling of land and tenant farming is renting land | 34 | |
5951154841 | What was the purpose of Freedmen's Bureau | The purpose was to help freed slaves with things they need | 35 | |
5951176165 | What was the difference in the way ex-slaves worshipped during Reconstruction? | no overseers | 36 | |
5951187011 | How was education different after the Civil War | Schools for ex-slaves and whites were built | 37 | |
5951192090 | Who was PBS Pinchback | First black Governor of Louisiana | 38 | |
5951197830 | What were Elites? How did they view the former slaves? | blacks who were not born a slave. they looked down on them | 39 | |
5951204640 | What were some of the terror groups that operated in the South? What tactics did they use | KKK, Knight-White Camelia - violent ways | 40 | |
5951222541 | Which president ended reconstruction | Rutherford B Hayes | 41 | |
5951237604 | How was Grant as a president? What happened to cause him to be viewed this way? | His administration was very corrupt. The bank scandals | 42 | |
5951245179 | Explain what "redemption" meant to the South | To get justice. the right to govern themselves | 43 |
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