Ch 18 The Reconstruction Era
____ was the first African American elected to the United Sates Senate.
Hiram Revels
The United States suffered an economic wave of fear in the Panic of ____.
1873
In ____ the last Union troops left the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.
1877
Who proposed the Ten Percent Plan?
Abraham Lincoln
Who became president after President Lincoln was killed?
Andrew Jackson
____ began with the Congressional elections of 1866.
Radical Reconstruction
____ voted to impeach President Johnson
The House of Representatives
Blanche K. Bruce was ____.
the first African American senator to serve a full term
Where did Exodusters go?
to Kansas
Why did Congress pass the Tenure of Office Act?
to control Andrew Johnson
What was one purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
to grant citizenship to African Americans
What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?
to guarantee former enslaved people the right to vote
The number of African Americans holding important government positions during Reconstruction was ____.
very small
Scalawags were ____.
white Southerners
Which person was a "redeemer"?
a Southern Democrat
In sharecropping, what does the farmer give the landowner?
a percentage of the crop
Which word is closest in meaning to radical?
extreme
The number of African Americans attending school during Reconstruction ____.
increased
Andrew Johnson ____ equal rights for African Americans.
opposed
To reenter the Union, Southern states had to ____.
outlaw the practice of slavery
Which word is closest in meaning to amnesty?
pardon
Which word is closest in meaning to scalawag?
scoundrel
"Jim Crow" laws required which practice?
segregation
Which amendment to the Constitution guaranteed citizenship to former enslaved persons?
the Fourteenth Amendment
Which word most accurately describes Southern industry in the 1880s?
growing
(T/F) Buffalo soldiers" were African Americans who escaped the South by joining the army.
True
(T/F) Carpetbaggers were named after their suitcases.
True
(T/F) Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant was elected president twice.
True
(T/F) Radical Republicans favored the Wade-Davis Bill.
True
(T/F) Reconstruction refers to both rebuilding the South and to the plan to bring Southern states back into the Union.
True
(T/F) Republicans were the dominant political party during Reconstruction.
True
(T/F) "Black codes" were laws passed by Congress to help protect African Americans.
False
(T/F) Most schools built during Reconstruction were open to Southerners of all races.
False
(T/F) Most white Southerners welcomed Radical Reconstruction.
False
(T/F) Only former enslaved people could join the Freedman's Bureau.
False
(T/F) President Andrew Johnson was considered a "Radical Republican."
False
(T/F) Southern leaders created poll taxes to pay African Americans to vote.
False
To help African Americans adjust to life after slavery, Congress created the ____.
Freedmen´s Bureau
he election of ____ as president brought Reconstruction to an end.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The ____ empowered the army to register voters in the South.
Second Reconstruction Act
