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