The Death of Lincoln & Assassination

Years of the Reconstruction Era

1865–1877

Requirements of Lincoln’s 10% Plan

Accept the 13th Amendment and 10% of the population takes a loyalty oath

Lincoln’s Vice President during reelection

Andrew Johnson

The only Southern senator who did not walk out of Congress

Andrew Johnson

Name of the Congressional plan rejected by Lincoln

The Wade Davis Bill

Requirements of the Wade Davis Bill

Accept the 13th Amendment, 50% loyalty oath, provisional governor, and outlaw Confederate debt/officers

Date of Lincoln’s assassination

April 14, 1865

Play Lincoln was watching at Ford’s Theatre

“My American Cousin”

Identity of John Wilkes Booth

26-year-old actor, anti-Lincoln, and former member of the militia that went after John Brown

Location where the conspirators met

Mary Surratt’s house

First woman to be publicly executed a crime in the U.S.

Mary Surratt

Lewis Powell’s assignment

Kill Secretary of State William Seward and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Outcome of Lewis Powell’s attack on Seward

Stabbed Seward multiple times but did not kill him

George Atzerodt’s assignment

Kill Andrew Johnson (he never made an attempt)

Timing of the shooting during the play

During the loudest moment of laughter

Booth’s words upon jumping onto the stage

“Thus always to tyrants” (Virginia state motto)

Time of Lincoln’s death

7

The son Mary Todd Lincoln sent for at the deathbed

Tad Lincoln (who died at age 18)

Lincoln’s burial location

Springfield, Illinois

Length of the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth

7 days

Fate of John Wilkes Booth

Found in a barn, shot, and scorched

Andrew Johnson’s rank as President

17th President

Requirements of Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Accept 13th Amendment, outlaw Confederate debts, and set up provisional governments with optional oaths

Common name for Black Codes

Jim Crow Laws

Specific restrictions under Black Codes

No testifying against whites, no carrying weapons, no voting, and no unemployment

Primary job for many Black people under Black Codes

Sharecroppers

Provisions of the 14th Amendment

Citizenship for all former slaves, outlawed Confederate debt, stripped citizenship/office from Confederate leaders, and guaranteed equal protection

Military provisions of the Congressional Reconstruction Act of 1867

Divided the South into 5 different military districts

Condition for states to reapply for statehood in 1867

Over 50% of residents become citizens

Johnson’s reaction to the Reconstruction Act

Vetoed it, but Congress overrode the veto

Stipulation of the Tenure of Office Act

Presidents cannot fire officials without Congressional authority

Reason for Andrew Johnson’s impeachment

He fired Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act

Outcome of Johnson’s impeachment trial

Acquitted by one vote

Details of the Alaska purchase (1867)

Bought for $7.2 million; Alaskans received tax breaks

Primary functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau

Teach trades, reunite families, distribute rations, and build hospitals

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Prohibited discrimination on the basis of color

Purpose of Poll Taxes

A tax paid to vote (cheap for whites, expensive for Black people)

Original target of Literacy Tests

Irish and Catholics (later used against Black people)

Founder of the KKK

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Two primary goals of the KKK

Control elections and keep Black people from voting

The 15th Amendment

Granted universal male suffrage (excluding Native Americans)

Winner of the Election of 1868

Ulysses S. Grant

Grant’s policy toward the South

Raised taxes and passed the Force Act to make the South "pay"

Definition of a Carpetbagger

A Northerner who traveled South to take advantage of Southerners

Definition of a Scallywag

A Southerner who conspired with the North to take advantage of fellow Southerners

Definition of the "Solid South"

Southerners who consistently voted Democrat

Purpose of the Force Act

Gave the President authority to use any means to go after secret societies

James B. Duke’s contribution to industry

Bought the rights to the first cigarette machine

Role of the American Methodist Association

Northern Methodists who started schools (primarily Black schools) in the South

Founder of the Tuskegee Institute

Booker T. Washington

Achievements of George Washington Carver

Black scientist who discovered 300 uses for the peanut

First two Black men to hold public office

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce (LaBruce)

Winner of the Election of 1876

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes' nickname

Old 8 to 7

Outcome of the 15-person committee for the 1876 Election

Elected Hayes by a vote of 8-7

The six provisions of the Compromise of 1876

End of Reconstruction, all states re-enter Union, North invests in South, South treats former slaves as equals, agreement to 13th-15th amendments, and hunger/homelessness programs

Origin of Central Park

Created in NYC using money gifted by Hayes

Homer Plessy’s racial background

7/8 white and 1/8 Black

The "blood" rule for being considered Black during the era

1/64 Black

Legal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson

Separate but equal

John Marshall Harlan’s famous quote on the Constitution

“Our constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates distinction among color.”

First factor that makes industry grow

Money

Seward’s Folley

The 1867 purchase of Alaska by Secretary Seward