8th US History Unit Review- Reconstruction
During the late 1800s, the Union League was focused on
African American involvement in government.
result of some former Confederate states' refusal to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
Congress established military rule in the South
How did President Johnson handle land that had been abandoned in the South during the Civil War
He returned it to white landowners
What did President Johnson do with land formerly enslaved people built farms that were on abandoned land during Reconstruction
Johnson returned the land to its former owners
President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction
Johnson's plan pardoned most Southern whites and did not protect the rights of freed African Americans
The election between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden was in dispute in four states, including
Louisiana
As a result of economic problems that occurred in 1874
Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives to Democrats
the system of sharecropping affects landowners and laborers in the South
The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers' hard work.
Northern Republicans react to the new members of Congress who joined in 1866
They were outraged that former Confederates were able to join Congress
After Reconstruction ended and the military was removed from the South, Jim Crow laws established
a formal system of segregation
Fading support for Reconstruction was caused in part by
accusations of bribery against the Grant administration
After Black Codes were established in the South, unemployed African Americans
could be arrested as vagrants
In 1883, several civil rights cases came before the Supreme Court that were related to
discrimination in public facilities
the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 accomplish
divided the South into five military districts.
Racial violence in the South in the late 1800s often included lynching, which is another term for
killing, usually by hanging, without a trial
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment led to
more African Americans being elected to all levels of government.
During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen's Bureau
negotiated labor contracts between laborers and employers
States that wanted to rejoin the Union during Reconstruction had to
register white and African American voters
The Fourteenth Amendment affected many court cases, such as Brown v. Board of Education, in which
school segregation was outlawed
Under Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, what percentage of a state's population had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union for the state to be readmitted?
ten percent
During Reconstruction, which group or organization built schools for African Americans and trained teachers
the Freedmen's Bureau
On February 24, 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached by
the House of Representatives.
what abolished involuntary servitude in the United States
the Thirteenth Amendment
the goal of the Freedmen's Bureau
to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom in the South