Reconstruction Era Review

Flashcards on Reconstruction Era based on lecture notes

State of Education in ex-Confederate states by the end of Reconstruction

By the end of Reconstruction, public education did not take root in the ex-Confederate states.

Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

It specified that states needed to provide equal protection to all citizens.

Crop-lien system and sharecropping in the South encouraged farmers to do what?

To adopt the use of mechanization on increasingly larger farms.

Redeemers were typically composed of which groups?

A newly emerging class of merchants, industrialists, railroad developers, and financiers.

Who was Henry W. Grady?

An Atlanta newspaper editor who became a leading spokesman for the "New South" idea.

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court established the general principle that…

States could require separate accommodations on trains, in schools, and the like, for blacks and whites as long as the accommodations were "equal."

Compromise of 1877

-Removal of fed. troops from South

• Southerner in Hayes's Cabinet
• Fed. aid for southern transcontinental railroads

All of the following are true about the Wade-Davis Bill except:

Lincoln signed it into law but it was never enforced under President Johnson.

Which of the following statements about the Freedmen's Bureau is false?

It was vigorously supported by both Abraham Lincoln, its creator, and Andrew Johnson, his successor.

Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

It declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race.

Northerners who traveled to the South and became members of the Southern state governments were called:

carpetbaggers.

Conservative Democrats regain control of southern governments EXCEPT:

William Seward's purchase of Alaska was deeply unpopular throughout the South.

According to the cartoonist, Thomas Nast:

Reconstruction was not protecting the civil rights of former slaves.

Which of the following groups were NOT targets of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?

Immigrants

How did the federal government respond to surge in violence conducted by the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction?

Congress passed three Enforcement Acts, which gave the President the power to deploy the military to stamp out the Ku Klux Klan in southern states.