Reconstruction

Reconstruction Review:

 

  1. Realizing that the poll tax and literacy tests prevented many whites as well as African Americans from voting, southern state legislatures decided to pass grandfather clauses_________________________ which would only limit African Americans from voting in the South.

 

  1. This was a form of wage slavery that kept both poor whites and blacks tied down to plantations or large farms after the Civil War.  The system was rigged in such a way that these poor farmers could only make a tiny income. sharecropping

 

  1. His plan for Reconstruction was similar to that of Lincoln’s in that it was very lenient toward the South.  However, unlike Lincoln, he clearly demonstrated racist tendencies. Andrew Johnson

 

  1. These two men were the leading Radical Republicans in Congress.  Charles Sumner was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, while Thaddeus Stevens, the more extreme of the two men, was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.  Both were highly protective of the rights of African Americans in the South.

 

  1. This amendment intended to grant suffrage to all black males          15th amendment.

 

  1. This amendment freed all slaves everywhere in the United States and its territories. 13th amendment

 

  1. This amendment intended to grant citizenship to all African Americans and to ensure “equal protection under the law.” 14th amendment

 

  1. A carpetbagger was the derogatory name that many southern whites gave those who went south after the Civil War.  Many white southerners believed that these northerners were mainly there to exploit southerners.

 

  1. A scalawag was a derogatory term for white southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction.

 

  1. The election of this educated African American southerner to the U.S. Senate after the Civil War inspired and enthralled many, but enraged most white southerners. _______Hyram Revels____________

 

  1. He ended up the victor of the 1876 presidential election although votes in three states had been contested and his opponent had gotten the majority of the popular vote. Rutherford B. Hayes

 

  1. Lincoln vetoes the Wade Davis Bill_______________________ since he believed that its requirements for the southern states to re-enter the Union were too difficult and punishing.

 

  1. The Black Codes________________ were passed by the southern states in order to restrict the behavior of freed slaves in such a way that they were second class citizens.

 

  1.  The ___Jim Crow laws_____________________ were intended to segregate blacks and whites in public facilities such as railroads, schools, drinking fountains, etc. throughout the South.

 

  1. The ___Force Bill___________________ were passed by Congress to punish and eradicate the KKK and similar white supremacist organizations.

 

  1. This term refers to the return to political power of whites (many of them former Confederate military and government officers) in the South after the Civil War. Redemption

 

  1. This is considered the federal government’s first welfare agency.  It was established to aid freed slaves and whites in the south displaced by war.  Among other achievements, it resulted in thousands of African Americans becoming literate. Freedman’s Bureau

 

  1. This agreement resulted in southern Democrats accepting Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president.  However, in return, it was expected that the president would pull all remaining Union troops out of the South. The Compromise of 1877