RECONSTRUCTION TEST REVIEW

TEST TOMORROW!!!

This is the term used to describe the complete

separation of the races.

ANSWER SEGREGATION

After being impeached, why was Andrew Johnson not

removed from office?

ANSWER HE WAS ONE VOTE SHY OF CONVICTION IN HIS TRIAL BY THE SENATE

The name given to laws passed in the South immediately after the

Civil War that restricted the rights of ex-slaves were called what?

ANSWER BLACK CODES

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to

profit off the condition of the South were nicknamed what?

ANSWER CARPETBAGGERS

White Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War were given this

nickname

ANSWER SCALAWAGS

People who supported the Confederacy during the Civil

War were offered this. (Another word for forgiveness)

ANSWER AMNESTY

The federal government established this organization

after the Civil War to help feed, cloth, and educate ex-slaves.

ANSWER FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

What does the 14th Amendment say?

ANSWER ANYONE BORN IN THE U.S. IS A CITIZEN

What was the name given to Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

ANSWER TEN PERCENT PLAN

What was the ruling in the Supreme Court case Plessy v.

Ferguson?

ANSWER SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

What was sharecropping?

ANSWER A SYSTEM THAT DEVELOPED DURING RECONSTRUCTION THAT KEPT EX-

SLAVES ON THE PLANTATION BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT PAY OFF THEIR DEBT.

THEY WERE IN A CYCLE OF POVERTY.

What was the name given to segregation laws in the South?

ANSWER JIM CROW LAWS

The deal that essentially ended Reconstruction was called

what? What was the deal?

ANSWER COMPROMISE OF 1877. HAYES (R) BECAME PRESIDENT AND IN RETURN THE NORTH REMOVED THE REMAINING

FEDERAL TROOPS FROM THE SOUTH

What does the 15th Amendment say?

ANSWER THE RIGHT TO VOTE CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY ON

ACCOUNT OF RACE

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

ANSWER JOHN WILKES BOOTH

WHAT WERE 2 WAYS THE SOUTH ATTEMPTED TO “GET

AROUND” THE 15TH AMENDMENT?

ANSWER KKK, POLL TAX, LITERACY TEST, GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

Why did Republicans push for the passage of the 15th

Amendment?

ANSWER BECAUSE AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE VOTING FOR REPUBLICANS AND IT WOULD GUARANTEE THAT REPUBLICANS

WOULD WIN ELECTIONS

What word would be the best word to describe Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction?

ANSWER LENIENT