RECONSTRUCTION TEST REVIEW

1. RECONSTRUCTION TEST REVIEW TEST TOMORROW!!!

2. This is the term used to describe the complete separation of the races. ANSWER  SEGREGATION

3. 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

4. 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

5. Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to profit off the condition of the South were nicknamed what? ANSWER  CARPETBAGGERS

6. White Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War were given this nickname ANSWER  SCALAWAGS

7. People who supported the Confederacy during the Civil War were offered this. (Another word for forgiveness) ANSWER  AMNESTY

8. The federal government established this organization after the Civil War to help feed, cloth, and educate ex-slaves. ANSWER  FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

9. What does the 14th Amendment say? ANSWER  ANYONE BORN IN THE U.S. IS A CITIZEN

10. What was the name given to Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction? ANSWER  TEN PERCENT PLAN

11. What was the ruling in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson? ANSWER  SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

12. 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.

13. What was the name given to segregation laws in the South? ANSWER  JIM CROW LAWS

14. 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

15. What does the 15th Amendment say? ANSWER  THE RIGHT TO VOTE CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY ON ACCOUNT OF RACE

16. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln? ANSWER  JOHN WILKES BOOTH

17. WHAT WERE 2 WAYS THE SOUTH ATTEMPTED TO “GET AROUND” THE 15TH AMENDMENT? ANSWER  KKK, POLL TAX, LITERACY TEST, GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

18. 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

19. What word would be the best word to describe Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction? ANSWER  LENIENT