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GET EXCITED (OR AT LEAST PRETEND)!!. Meet your teams!. Team 1. Team 2. Team 3 Is this guy for real?. Question. Who is Andrew Johnson? Why is he imporant ?. Answer.
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Meet your teams! Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Is this guy for real?
Question • Who is Andrew Johnson? Why is he imporant?
Answer • He was Lincoln’s Vice President. He took over Presidential Reconstruction after Lincoln was killed. He was impeached by Congress and then lost control of Reconstruction as a result.
Question • What is “Reconstruction?”
Answer • It is the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. • Socially: Civil Rights laws • Politically: New state governments • Economically: Rebuilding cities and factories
Question • Who were the Radical Republicans?
Answer • They were a faction in congress that believed that the South should be punished and that the US government should use its power to produce sweeping changes in the South, such as giving Freedmen equal rights. • This group was able to wrestle control of Reconstruction from Pres. Johnson and controlled it for the rest of the period.
Question • What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Answer • It was a bill that was introduced in Congress as a reaction to Lincoln’s easy terms for letting the Southern states back into the Union. • It demanded loyalty oaths from 50% of a state’s population. • It also demanded that these oaths be “iron-clad.” This meant that one could not have helped the Confederacy in any way. • Lincoln killed the bill by refusing to sign it.
Question • What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Answer • It was a government agency that was created to smooth Freedmen’s transition from slavery to freedom.
Question • What were Black Codes?
Answer • These were laws that were passed by new governments of Southern States early in Reconstruction. • These are different then Jim Crow laws which came after Reconstruction. • These laws sought to directly re-enslave African Americans without directly making them slaves. • In response, the federal government dissolved these state government and cancelled the Black Codes, forcing the 13th-15th amendments on the Southern states.
Question What is the 13th Amendment?
Answer • No more slavery.
Question • What is the 14th Amendment?
Answer • African Americans are citizens of the United States and should be treated equally by the law.
Question • What is the 15th Amendment?
Answer • African American males have the right to vote.
Question • What is a “Carpetbagger?”
Answer • This is a white Northerner who came south after the war to help with Reconstruction. • Many Carpetbaggers worked for the Freedmen’s Bureau, in state and local governments, or held office in the South.
Question • What is sharecropping? How did it “re-enslave” many African Americans?
Answer • Sharecropping was an arrangement between former slave and former master. The freedmen rented land on his master’s plantation. He paid his rent at the end of the year by giving his master a share of his crop. • The master supplied his tenants with the seed and materials they needed each spring, allowing them to go deep into debt. • This allowed the masters to use local law enforcement to force labor and obedience over the share-croppers.
Question • What was the Klu Klux Klan?
Answer • It was a society of ex-Confederate soldiers organized around the idea of white supremacy. • It turned into a terrorist organization, which tried to frighten African Americans on election days to keep them at home.
Question • What is a “Redemption Government?”
Answer • These are the governments that were elected after the collapse of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal troops from the South in 1877. • Theses governments promised to “redeem” the glory of the South which had been lost in the Civil War. • These governments largely resembled the governments that had voted the South out of the Union before the war.
Question • Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Answer • He was the Northern Republican candidate for the presidency in 1876. • He tied the Southern Democrat candidate. • He agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South and end Reconstruction in exchange for the presidency.
Question • What is the Compromise of 1876 (or 1877)?
Answer • Rutherford B. Hays was the Northern Republican candidate for the presidency in 1876. • He tied the Southern Democrat candidate. • He agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South and end Reconstruction in exchange for the presidency.
Question What is Presidential Reconstruction?
Answer • It was the plan for rebuilding the South when it was under the control of the presidents, Lincoln & Johnson.
Question • What is Congressional (or Radical) Reconstruction?
Answer • It was the plan to rebuild the South when the faction in Congress, the Radical Republicans, was in control.
Question • What is the Amnesty Act of 1872?
Answer • It granted a general pardon to all who served in the Confederate government or army. • It allowed these people to begin voting and holding office again. • This lead to the election of Redemption Governments and the adoption of voting restrictions and Jim Crow laws.
Question • What were Jim Crow laws?
Answer • Laws that sought to segregate, or separate whites from blacks in public spaces, such as trains and hotels.
Question • What were some of the challenges the U.S. faced in rebuilding the South after the Civil War?
Answer • Who is in charge? (both North and South) • Cities and factories in ruins • What happens to the slaves? • Violence against African Americans
Question • Explain Lincoln’s 10%. What were its key features?
Answer • 10% of a state’s population must sign a loyalty oath. • Loyalty Rule vs. Majority Rule (only those who have signed a loyalty oath can vote or hold office) • Freedmen’s Bureau • 13th Amendment
Question • How is “loyalty rule” different from “majority rule?”
Answer • Loyalty Rule: Only those who have signed a loyalty oath can vote or hold office. This means those who are elected do not fit the will of the people. • Majority Rule: Everyone who is eligible can vote and whoever gets the majority wins. This means that those who are elected fit the will of the people.
Question • Explain the pro’s and con’s of Lincoln’s Reconstruction
Question • Describe the services offered by the Freedmen’s Bureau to Freedmen.
Answer • Provide Employment • Build Churches and Schools (also run them) • Negotiate contracts with employers • Protect newly acquired rights • Separate courts to provide fairer justice.
