Unit 3- Reconstruction Quiz (U.S. History)

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Scalawags

Southerners who joined the Republicans (viewed as traitors by southerners)

Wade Davis Bill

(Radical) - Lincoln's plan too easy. -African Americans needed full citizenship and suffrage. -Congress in charge of Reconstruction, not President.

Johnson Plan

- Former slaves should not gain suffrage. -He let some states slide by them not ratifying the 13th Amendment.

Results

- Industries flourished (North) -Industries suffered (South) - New Tech

13th Amendment

Abolished Slavery

Civil Rights Act of 1866

African Americans get citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws. Ex. "black codes"

14th Amendment

All persons born naturalized in U.S. are citizens. They are entitled to equal protection of the law. Penalty if states keep people from voting.

Freedman's Bureau

Assisted former slaves and poor whites in South with clothing, food, medical care; etc.

Compromise of 1877

Ended the Reconstruction period in the south but welcomed the "Jim Crow" period.

Tenant Farming

Farmer rented land and house from the landowner.

Sharecropping

Had no ownership of land, house or equipment.

Lincoln 10% Plan (Lenient)

If 10% of those voting in 1860 took an oath, the state would be readmitted. Would have to ratify the 13th Amendment

15th Amendment

No one can be kept from voting because of color, race, or previous condition of servitude.

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved south after the war. (to either help with reconstruction or to take advantage of the south's vulnerability and steal belongings.)

Ku Klux Klan

destroy Republican Party, throw out reconstruction, control African American laborers, prevent blacks from voting. -Burned churches, whipped, tortured, murdered, and would kill livestock

Reconstruction Act of 1867

split South in 5 military districts. Each led by Union general. - new requirement: ratify 14th Amendment and blacks must be able to vote.

Legacies of the War

states rights still an issue. - government power increased

Reconstruction

to put something was originally whole, that is currently broken, back together


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