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Test 1: Reconstruction of The US Flashcards

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2892652739How was the South destroyed after the Civil War?The South was Socially, Politically, and Economically damaged.0
2892661416Give three examples of what freedpeople were looking forward to after the Civil War.Establishing schools & churches, legalizing marriages, owning land, and making their own money.1
2892667201Why did Lincoln go to War?To preserve the Union, not to destroy the South.2
2892671224What is Reconstruction?The rebuilding of the southern states and the Union.3
2892674961What is Amnesty?To be pardoned. (The Confederate states were pardoned)4
2892680411Who was president after Lincoln?Andrew B. Johnson (1st President to be impeached)5
289268331413th AmendmentRatified in 1865 - Abolished Slavery6
2892694279What freedoms did the Black Codes take away from African Americans?Could not own guns, travel without a permit, serve on Juries, or hold any formal meeting without whites present.7
2892695640What was the purpose of the Black Codes?To limit the rights of African Americans.8
2892767130Northerners criticized the Black Codes as ________.An attempt to reestablish slavery.9
2892773055What was the largest group in Congress during early Reconstruction?The Moderates.10
2892776987What was the Moderates main concern?To keep former confederates out of government positions.11
2892783800Thaddeus Stevens and Frederick Douglas led the ____.Radicals.12
2893282745The Freedmen's Bureau was created to _____.Aid all southerners after the Civil War.13
2893289767The Freedmen's Bureau helped by doing what?It distributed clothes, food, and set up hospitals.14
2893297166What did Johnson think of the Freedman's Bureau?Johnson did not support it and wanted to veto it. Congress overrode his decision.15
2893304025Civil Rights Act of 1866Was the first civil rights law in the US - declare everyone a citizen with full rights; not including voting rights.16
289330826814th AmendmentRatified in 1868- Defined citizenship, and promised equal protection of laws.17
289333331715th AmendmentRatified in 1870 - Granted ALL men the right to vote18
2893338854Who are Carpetbaggers?Northerners who moved South to take advantage of economic and political rebuilding after the war.19
2893345778Who are Scalawags?Southerners who supported and agreed with Northern views. Seen as traitors to the Confederate South.20
2893354398What influenced the formation of the Ku Klux Klan?Confederate Whites were outraged by African Americans being a part of politics and in being able to run for elections.21
2893368666What were the goals of the KKK?To destroy the Republican Party, keep African Americans from voting, and frighten Civil Rights/African American leaders.22
2893376865What is Sharecropping?Any willing African American could own a parcel of land, a cabin, a mule, tools, and seeding in exchange for farming for a corporation or plantation.23
2893398781What are Poll Taxes?Fixed taxes imposed on every voter. Meant that lower classes could not vote.24
2893405255What are Literacy Tests?Examinations to test one's reading ability. Mainly used to select citizens who were eligible to vote; Usually not African Americans. This Violated the 15th Amendment.25
2893416907What is Segregation?The intentional separation of classes or races.26
2893421736How did Supreme Court rulings affect segregation?Supreme Court upheld and permitted segregation. Violated the 14th Amendment.27
2893427297Explain Plessey vs Ferguson.In 1896 Supreme Court ruled that separate facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment so long as they were equal in quality.28
2893435675Who was Madame CJ Walker?She was the first female and African American millionaire. Created a hair product company.29
2893437551Who was Booker T Washington?He believed that African Americans should achieve economic independence.30
2893448385Who was Ida b. Wells?She urged African Americans to move North for better opportunities and a good economy.31
2893460903Explain the phrase "the North won the War, the South won Reconstruction".The US was reunified due to the treaties signed between the North and South. The North had agreed to many accommodation to keep the South together including pulling Federal troops, passing the Black Codes, Poll taxing, Literacy Tests, and Share Cropping.32

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