RMS GA Studies-Unit 9-tcox

42. Who helped African-Americans in the South after the Civil War?

The Freedmen's Bureau

33. What was the federal legislation returning Georgia to military control because of the KKK terror against the freedmen?

The Georgia Act of 1869

41. Henry McNeal Turner would have MOST LIKELY agreed that

blacks cannot hope to get justice in the South and should therefore leave for Africa.

49. The differences between sharecropping and tenant farming can BEST be described as

sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers owned farm animals and equipment used in working other people's lands.

25. The Ku Klux Klan began in Tennessee in 1865 as a

social club.

48. Tenant farmers were different from sharecroppers in that

tenant farmers usually made a small profit.

32. Passage of Black Codes to restrict the civil rights of freedmen in Georgia by

the General Assembly led Congress to argue that Georgia was NOT "adequately reconstructed" in 1866.

3. To be pardoned, former Confederates had to agree to follow

the U.S. Constitution.

30. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in response to

the adoption of laws known as Black Codes by the southern states.

37. Georgia will meet the requirements for readmission to the Union HOW MANY times before Reconstruction finally ended in 1870?

3 times

35. Political Reconstruction lasted HOW LONG in Georgia?

5 years

39. WHO would NOT have supported the Radical Republican?

A member of the Ku Klux Klan

51. The following schools were started by the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia.

Clark College Atlanta University Morehouse College

34.Compromise of 1877 • Southern Democrats support electoral college vote • Military occupation in the South has ended • ? What best completes this list?

Conclusion of Reconstruction

44. The term "Solid South" refers to the fact that __________ had a "solid" grip on the South for over a hundred years.

Democrats

43. WHO made the largest percentage of Republican voters in the state?

Freedmen

23. WHO was one of the first three African Americans to serve in the Georgia General Assembly.

Henry McNeal Turner

38. All of the men listed below were African Americans elected to the General Assembly in the 1868 election . . .

Henry McNeal Turner Tunis G. Campbell Jr. Aaron A. Bradley

13.Who assassinated President Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth

2."Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim...to all persons who have...participated in the existing rebellion...that a full pardon is hereby granted to them... upon the condition that every such person shall take and subscribe an oath... -Abraham Lincoln, 1863 The passage shown above is part of . . .

Lincoln's place for Reconstruction following the Civil War.

16. Even though Johnson was impeached (he was charged with a crime and put on trial) WHAT saved him from being removed from office?

ONE VOTE

14. The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was known as

Reconstruction.

40. With the election of James Smith in 1871, the Democrats will hold the office of Governor of Georgia until WHO is elected in 2002?

Sonny Perdue

24. WHAT codes allowed imprisonment of unemployed blacks?

The Black Codes

28. All of the following statements about Black Codes are true.

The Black Codes limited the types of jobs that newly freed slaves could have. The Black Codes permitted African Americans to be put in prison if they did not have jobs. The Black Codes restricted the freedman's right to vote, serve on juries and testify against whites in court.

22. WHAT is the STRONGEST evidence of the federal government showing its power over state governments during Reconstruction.

The military occupation of former Confederate states

8. a. Southern states had to ratify the 13th amendment. b. Southern states had to nullify their ordinance of secession. c. Southern states had to promise not to repay those who had helped finance the Confederacy.

These were all a part of Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan.

11. "With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle for his widow and his orphan..."

This is -Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 Radical Reconstruction supporters would OPPOSE the ideas in this speech.

46. _______ were NOT provided to sharecroppers by the land owner.

Workers

19. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -Section 1 of 13th Amendment. As a result of this amendment . . .

all slaves were freed.

27. Eventually the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan

became to return control of the southern government to the Democrats by withholding civil rights to the freedmen.

1. According to Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, who would be pardoned after taking an oath of allegiance?

former soldiers and prisoners of war

18. Before the Fourteenth Amendment, WHO were not granted citizenship?

formerly-enslaved African Americans

10. During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans in Congress believed

freedmen should be granted equal civil rights.

20. The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

gave freedmen the right to vote.

31. The military districts shown on the above map were created during Reconstruction to

govern the former Confederate states until they had fulfilled their Reconstruction requirements.

21. After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution was to

guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law

45. In the beginning the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to . . .

help former slaves and poor whites.

50. The most important goal of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction was helping former slaves adjust to their new circumstance.

helping former slaves adjust to their new circumstance.

34. Use the cartoon below to answer the question (cartoon of poor person carrying a huge carpet bag with someone riding in it and another man guarding it) The main idea of this cartoon from the Reconstruction Period is

it shows the control and influence the carpetbaggers had on the South during Reconstruction.

47. Sharecroppers shared their harvest with the _______

land owners.

17. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

made freedmen citizens.

4. The Ten Percent Plan required that ten

percent of the state's voters take a loyalty oath to the Union.

6. President Johnson's Reconstruction plan denied a general pardon to

plantation owners.

7. President Lincoln's plan NOT enacted because

the plan did not become effective before Lincoln was assassinated.

5. The Radical Republicans rejected the Ten Percent Plan because they believe that

the plan was not harsh enough on the South.

15. Impeachment is when the president is charged with a crime however

the president does not have to be removed from office.

9. The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson because

the president refused to enforce laws passed by Congress.

36. The African American legislators were expelled from their positions in the Georgia state legislature because

they had the right to vote but did not have the right to hold office.

12. Lincoln's hope when planning the Reconstruction of the South was

to bring the nation together as quickly as possible.

29. All freedmen... found with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawful assembling themselves together, either in the day or night time, and all white persons assembling themselves with freedmen....or usually associating with freedmen....shall be fined....and imprisoned. -Mississippi Black Codes, 1865 Based on the excerpts, it can be concluded that the codes were meant . . .

to continue the economic and social restrictions previously placed on slaves.

26. The main reason supporters joined the Ku Klux Klan during the late Reconstruction Period was

to prevent former slaves from exercising their rights.

52. Because of the Reconstruction efforts of the Radical Republicans some African-Americans in Georgia after the war

won elections to political offices.