Chapter 18 reconstrction(notes) Flashcards
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| 5014100493 | How was the North after the civil war? | 800,000 returning soldiers without any jobs, factories were not hiring but the economy recovered quickly. | 0 | |
| 5014120304 | How was the South after the civil war? | -The south's plantations, cities and R.R's destroyed -confederate money is worthless -4 million freed slaves had education no jobs and no land | 1 | |
| 5014145729 | Who made the 10% plan? | President Lincoln | 2 | |
| 5014154349 | What were the conditions of the 10% plan? | -10% of the state population had to swear allegiance to the union -states had to abolish slavery | 3 | |
| 5014219241 | What did people think about the 10% plan? | That Lincoln was too easy on the South. | 4 | |
| 5014256822 | What were the conditions of the Wade- Davis Bill? | -majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the union -denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had fought for the confederacy | 5 | |
| 5014279622 | What was the freedmen's bureau? | It was a way to help the freedmen(former slaves) and also helped poor whites. | 6 | |
| 5014289612 | What were some of the things the Freedmen Bureau did? | -gave them food and clothing -tried to find them jobs -provided medical care -set up schools | 7 | |
| 5014314924 | What happened on April 14, 1865? | Lincoln attended a play at Ford's Theater and John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in the back of the head. | 8 | |
| 5014333662 | Who becomes President after Lincoln got assassinated? | Andrew Johnson | 9 | |
| 5014345793 | What were the conditions of the Johnson Plan? | -majority of white men must swear loyalty to the US -Must ratify the 13th Amendment | 10 | |
| 5014366592 | How did the Congress feel about the Johnson Plan? | Congress was angry with johnson's plan for allowing the same men who fought against the Union to be elected into Congress(they were ready to fight) | 11 | |
| 5014424104 | What were the Black codes and what did they do? | Laws set up by Southern states that limits the rights of freedmen; now freedmen can't vote, own a gun, or serve on juries. | 12 | |
| 5014447515 | *****What was white southerns goal? | To limit African Americans political and economic power | 13 | |
| 5014463296 | What were the Radical Republicans 2 main goals? | -break the power of wealthy land owners in the south -get freedmen the right to vote | 14 | |
| 5014481108 | What were the conditions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867? | -Must disband state governments -write new constitutions -ratify 14th amendment | 15 | |
| 5014500368 | What is the 14th Amendment? | -granted citizenship to all persons born in the US and equal protection of the laws (was an attempt to make everyone equal) | 16 | |
| 5014517002 | What is the 15th Amendment? | -granted African American males the right to vote | 17 | |
| 5014534581 | Who got impeached and why? | Radical Republicans try to impeach President Johnson because of their disagreement over Reconstruction | 18 | |
| 5014552927 | Who won the election of 1868? | Ulysses S Grant | 19 | |
| 5014586869 | What were the three groups who dominate the government? | Scalawags, CArpetbaggers, African Americans | 20 | |
| 5014596160 | Who were the Scalawags? | The Southerns that supported the new REpublican governments established in the South. | 21 | |
| 5014605627 | Who were the Carpetbaggers? | Northerns hoping to profit from the Souths misery. -Soldiers who liked the climate -help rebuild the south(teachers and ministers) | 22 | |
| 5014642873 | What was the Ku Klux Klan? | -conservative (secret)organization used violence and threats to limit African Americans power. | 23 | |
| 5014664422 | What was Sharecropping? | A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for share of the crops produced on their portion of land. | 24 | |
| 5014685944 | What ere some accomplishments of reconstruction? | -South gained a public education system extended rail lines -African Americans became citizens | 25 | |
| 5014693447 | What ere some failures of reconstruction? | African Americans will see their rights become severely restricted -JIm crow laws -KKK -sharecropping -Literacy Test | 26 | |
| 5014723758 | Why does Rutherford B. Hayes win the election? | He promises to stop reconstruction. | 27 | |
| 5014735357 | How did the South's Economy change? | -Cotton production slowly recovered -Tobacco industry grew rapidly -oil and lumber became new industries | 28 | |
| 5014750255 | What were some restricting rights? | -poll taxes -Literacy Test -Grandfather Clause -JIm Crow Laws | 29 | |
| 5014768061 | What did the Plessy vs. Ferguson Case allow? | *****SEGREGATION BUT EQUAL IS LEGAL | 30 |