Reconstruction Period Flashcards

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