american history quiz 2

The freedmen’s bureau

a U.S. federal government agency established on March 3, 1865, to help formerly enslaved people

Marshall Twitchell

A carpetbagger that went to fight for the north and go to educate the free slaves in the south after the Civil War

Scalawag

A derogatory, southern slang term to describe the southerner who supports reconstruction

William Tecumseh Sherman

a Union general during the American Civil War

Special field order 15

a military decree issued by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, that set aside 40 acres of coastal land for newly freed Black families

Andrew Johnson

Democratic president after Abraham Lincoln assassination

Sharecropping

An economic system in which former slaves rent land and tools from land owner and work to pay off rent

Jim Crow laws

Local and state laws in southern states that segregate and subjugate African-Americans

Radical Republicans

Republicans that wanted complete quality to all men regardless of race and they wanted land reddistribution

Radical Republican names

Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania

Benjamin Wade, Ohio

Charles sumner Massachusetts

13th amendment

Make slavery illegal

14th amendment

Provide equality for all under the law also define citizenship as anyone who’s born in the United States of America

15th amendment

The right to vote will not denied an account of the race

Tenure of office act

Senate was to prove by 51% the removal of any member of the presidential cabinet

What happened to Andrew Johnson impeachment?

Andrew Johnson was impeached by the vote of the House of Representatives, but the Senate voted by one vote not to impeach although he kept his job his political power was gone

What did the radical Republicans do after Andrew Johnson’s lost power?

They divided the south into five military districts

Who was the republican in the 1876 election

Rutherford B Hayes

Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1876 president election

Samuel Tilden

What state did immigrants go to?

New York

Why did the Democratic Party tell immigrants to go to New York?

Democratic Party began Reaching out to immigrants for more votes after the Civil War, therefore, many big cities in the north became democratic strongholds, kinda like New York

Who won the popular vote

Samuel Tilden

What states were too close to call?

South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida

The compromise of 1877

Hayes is the next president under the condition he withdraw all federal troops from the south

Why did black men always go to churches?

Because it became the center of social life for many African-Americans in the south

What famous quote was made after reconstruction

The North won the Civil War, but the south won reconstruction