Reconstruction

Which Reconstruction Plan was the least harsh?

Lincoln's Plan (The Presidential Reconstruction Plans)

What is a regime?

A group that dominates a government.

What was the "Red Shirt" Campaign?

A movement to persuade people to vote for Wad Hampton led by Southern Democrats.

What kind of effect did the shortage of labor on plantations have on SC?

A negative effect

What is an insurgent?

A person who takes part in a rebellion against the ruling power.

What did the 13th amendment do?

Abolished of slavery

How did the federal government help African Americans in South Carolina during Reconstruction?

By using federal troops to protect them.

What were white Northerners who lived in the South during Reconstruction called?

Carpetbaggers

This piece of Reconstruction-era legislation was passed by Congress- over the veto of Andrew Johnson- in order to protect the rights of newly freed former slaves, guaranteeing such things as citizenship and equal legal rights as white citizens.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

What is militant?

Combative, hostile, radical or revolutionary

What was the solution to the contested Presidential election of 1876 and furthermore brought an end to the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War?

Compromise of 1877

What was a Supreme Court ruling that said that Africans were the property of their owners and could be taken where ever they wanted to?

Dred Scott Decision

List three ways that the Freedmen's Bureau help newly freed slaves ?

Fed them, provided education, provided medical care,helped find lost family and friends, helped make new identities, and provide free transportation.

What were former slaves who were now free called?

Freedmen

What was the name of the government agency that was set up to help former slaves, poor whites, and others that needed aid after the war?

Freedmen's Bureau

What did the 15th amendment do?

Gave African American men the right to vote

What did the 14th amendment do?

Granted citizenship to African Americans

Why was Lincoln's Reconstruction plan never started?

He was assassinated 5 days after the end of the Civil War.

What happened to the wealth in SC after the Civil War?

It greatly declined.

Who was the president after Lincoln who wanted to punish the south more but, not as much as the Congress did?

Johnson

In what two cities did riots break out during the summer of 1866

Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana

During the Reconstruction era, groups such as the "White League" and the "Red Shirts" sought to do what?

Overthrow Republican rule and suppress black voting.

What was the reason that tenant farmers,sharecroppers, and poor land owners in a cycle of debt ?

Poor harvest or low crop prices caused them to not meet the obligations (debt).

What was the decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

Racial segregation did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Which party believed in strict punishment of Confederate veterans?

Radical Republicans.

What was the name for the time in history when the South had to rebuild after the Civil War?

Reconstruction

What were Southerners who supported the Union called?

Scalawags

What is the term for farming on someone else's land for a percentage of the crop?

Sharecropping

Which Reconstruction Plan was the most harsh?

The Congressional Plan

What were the three large hate groups that formed due to the freedom of African Americans?

The KKK, Riflemen, and the Red Shirts

Which party passed the Ku Klux Klan act in Congress?

The Republicans

What were some successful aspects of Reconstruction as a whole?

The end of slavery, the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau.

What was the feeling of most white South Carolinian's about reconstruction?

The were angered by policies of reconstruction.

What happened to plantation owners due to the Civil War?

Their crops were destroyed and their work labor was lost

What were the Black Codes during reconstruction?

They were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.

What is the definition of impeach?

To accuse a public official of wrongdoing.

What were some aspects of the Congressional Plan for Reconstruction?

To protect Freedmen's rights, to have military occupation of the South, and forced to accept the

What was the purpose of the Jim Crow laws in SC?

To restrict the rights of African Americans.

What ended reconstruction?

When President Hayes withdrew troops from the South.

Three things KKK do to resist the reconstruction ?

lynching, burning houses, terrorized ,beating and whipping.