Reconstruction Unit Test Jeopardy PART 3

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2. What were some political effects of Reconstruction on African Americans? (How did life changed for them politically?) • They could vote for people who supported their interests. • They could hold government jobs/offices Back Click for Answer

3. What were some economic effects of Reconstruction on African Americans? • Were not allowed to own land so had to enter into sharecropping agreements (which basically put them back into a type of slavery) • Could not be unemployed • Were kept from certain jobs because they couldn’t afford the required license Back Click for Answer

4. What were some social effects of Reconstruction on African Americans? (How did life changed for them socially?) • Southerners still saw them as inferior • Were kept from sitting, eating, and entering certain places (Jim Crow Laws) • Were allowed to reunite with their families and established communities built around the church • They could decide if the wives and children worked in the fields as sharecroppers • Attended schools/ got an education Back Click for Answer

5. Who was in charge of the Radical Republicans? Thaddeus Stevens Back Click for Answer

6. What were the years for Reconstruction? 1865-1877 Back Click for Answer

7. What insect destroyed many cotton crops? Boll weevil Back Click for Answer

8. Name 6 ways African Americans were kept from voting. • Violence and intimidation from KKK and white southerners • moved the polling places out too far • moved the polling places without telling them • had to pay a poll tax ($) • had to take a literacy test • grandfather clause- if father/grandfather voted in 1865 then they could (but AA were not allowed to vote then) Back Click for Answer

9. This agency was established to help all people, white or black, who were in need due to the harshness of war. Freedman’s Bureau Click for Answer

10. Why did Lincoln NOT see the end of Reconstruction? He was assassinated soon after Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Click for Answer

11. What freed the slaves everywhere in the United States? 13th Amendment Click for Answer

12. What impact did the assassination of Lincoln have on the start of Reconstruction? Andrew Johnson continued Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction. Click for Answer

13. What changed for African Americans in the South after the Civil War? African American slaves gained freedom. Click for Answer

14. What was a major contribution of the Freedmen’s Bureau? Built over 1,000 schools throughout the South. Click for Answer

15. What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation? Free slaves in the CONFEDERATE territories. Click for Answer

16. What did Lincoln want to bring together and preserve in his version of Reconstruction? The Union Click for Answer

17. What was the nickname for southerners who worked with the Republican governments in the South (and therefore gained some political voice) and were considered traitors by many southerners? scalawags Click for Answer

18. How did the working and living conditions of the AA change because of their new freedom from slavery? • Women and children were not forced to work the fields as they had been forced to do as slaves Click for Answer

19. What fraction of the states must ratify an amendment before it can become a law? 2/3 Click for Answer

20. What was an important shift or change in Southern politics during Reconstruction due to the 15th Amendment? • African Americans held public offices because they could vote Click for Answer

21. Why was land taken away from AA? • The land was returned (by the government) to the original white landowners when Democrats took back over the state governments Click for Answer

22. What was the intention or purpose of the “grandfather clause”? • It was a way to keep AA from voting. • It said if the father/grandfather voted before 1867, then the son could vote. But AA weren’t given the right to vote at all until 1870. Click for Answer

23. Which workers were attracted to work in textile factories? • White farm workers Click for Answer

24. How were the economic rights and independence of AA limited during Reconstruction? • Southerners refused to sell land to AA- even it they could afford it Click for Answer

25. In sharecropping, this person provided the labor to work the land. The sharecropper Click for Answer

26. What were three (3) needs of sharecroppers? • They needed: • Money • Jobs • Place to live Click for Answer

27. What was the result of many sharecropping agreements? Once the crops were harvested and taken to market, the landowner took out his initial investment amount and the agreed upon amount of the crop for himself and the sharecropper could keep the rest. Click for Answer

28. What did sharecroppers provide for the landowners? They provided the work or labor to get the crops planted and harvested Click for Answer

29. What did the landowners need in order to get their crops grown? labor or workers Click for Answer

30. What 3 main items did the landowner provide in a sharecropping agreement? • The land • A home for the sharecropper to live in • All the supplies Click for Answer

31. Name one positive POLITICAL effect Reconstruction had on AA: • They were allowed to vote and hold political office- and often voted for other AA and Republicans who supported them • They were recognized by 14th Amendment as citizens Click for Answer

32. Name one negative POLITICAL effect Reconstruction had on AA: • They were kept from voting (moved without telling them, moved too far away, poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, intimidated with violence) Click for Answer

33. Name one positive ECONOMIC effect Reconstruction had on AA: • Sharecropping allowed them the chance to make money for themselves and family Click for Answer

34. Name one negative ECONOMIC effect Reconstruction had on AA: • Were not allowed to own land (so had no power) • Sharecropping put many in debt and almost in a state of slavery all over again • Were often the first fired/last hired Click for Answer

35. Name a positive SOCIAL effect of Reconstruction on AA: Families were reunited Communities were built around the church Houses were moved away from the “big house” and more on their own plots of land They were allowed to marry Could decide if wives/children worked in the crops Click for Answer

36. Name one negative SOCIAL effect of Reconstruction on AA: • Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws kept them inferior • Southern Elite refused to see them as equal Click for Answer

37. Why did the pattern of housing near the “big house” change during Reconstruction? Workers entered into sharecropping agreements for certain plots of land away from the “big house” Click for Answer

38. Why did southern planters enter into sharecropping agreements with freedmen? They needed workers to ensure their crops and land would be worked and taken care of Click for Answer

39. What did the 15th Amendment do? It gave all MEN the right to vote. Click for Answer

40. Place the following laws in order of when they were used: Black Codes Jim Crow laws Slave Codes • Slave codes- before Reconstruction…were replaced by • Black Codes- during Reconstruction…were replaced by • Jim Crow Laws-after Reconstruction (1890s) Click for Answer

41. What was the purpose of the Black Codes after the Civil War? To keep African Americans in an inferior position in society by denying them of their rights Click for Answer

42. What was Lincoln’s aim/goal for Reconstruction? To reunite or preserve the Union (remember his 10% Plan??) and to show leniency (kindness and mercy) to the South Click for Answer

43. What was the goal of Lincoln’s 10% Plan? He wanted to provide an easy or lenient way for the Southern states to rejoin and participate in the Union since only 10% of the people had to pledge allegiance to the US in order to re-enter Click for Answer

44. How did Jim Crow Laws affect life for African Americans? • They provided separate everything for blacks and whites, such as prohibited (kept) them from sitting in certain areas of trains, staying in certain hotels, eating in certain restaurants, or attending certain theaters, school, and parks. • They were the beginning of segregation (the separation of) of blacks and whites Click for Answer

45. Why did Abraham Lincoln promise an easy Reconstruction plan? To persuade Southern states to surrender Click for Answer

46. What two (2) main things happened with the Compromise of 1877? (1)The Democrats agreed to support the Republican candidate for president if the Republicans removed the troops from the South- which basically ended Reconstruction. (2) African Americans and their rights were abandoned by the government because the Democrats gained control of state governments. Click for Answer

47. What was the Dred Scott decision and which amendment overturned it? It said slaves were just property and not people or citizens. The 14th Amendment said now slaves were citizens if they were born in the US Click for Answer

48. What was the name of the laws that white southerners passed to deny the rights of their freed slaves AND why did they anger members of Congress? Black Codes, which replaced the previous slave codes. These laws basically maintained slavery by keeping freed slaves from voting and owning land. Click for Answer

49. What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation? To free all slaves in the Confederate territories Click for Answer

50. Plessy v Ferguson said what idea was legal? Separate but equal. [It basically said that Jim Crow Laws were legal and were the beginning of segregation] Click for Answer