Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
True or False
Both northerners and southerners supported Reconstruction. |
False
Most southerners hated Reconstruction and blamed the north for their problems. |
|
|
What does segregation mean?
|
forced separation of people by race
|
|
|
True or False
Reconstruction governments were responsible for some positive changes in the south, including building many public schools. |
True
|
|
|
What laws were passed by Southern states after the war which limited the freedom of the African Americans?
|
Black Codes
|
|
|
Which amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
|
Thirteenth Amendment
|
|
|
True or False
Republican control of Congress led to more civil rights for African Americans in the 1870s. |
True
|
|
|
What does Reconstruction mean?
|
Reuniting the U.S. and rebuilding the south
|
|
|
What led to the end of Reconstruction?
|
Compromise of 1877
|
|
|
What did Southern Democrats call white southern Republicans who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments?
This word meant liars and cheats. |
scalawags
|
|
|
What federal agency was established to provide relief for all poor people in the South after the Civil War?
|
Freedmen's Bureau
|
|
|
What did the Civil War Amendments, 13th, 14th and 15th, have in common?
|
All three increased the rights of African Americans.
|
|
|
Most southern states had laws which enforced segregation. What were these laws called?
|
Jim Crow laws
|
|
|
Who was impeached because of frequent problems with Congress?
|
Andrew Johnson
|
|
|
Who was the vice president who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
|
Andrew Johnson
|
|
|
What group in Congress considered the Black Codes to be undemocratic and cruel?
|
Radical Republicans
|
|
|
What were carpetbaggers?
|
Northern Republicans who moved south after the Civil War
|
|
|
What was the system that allowed poor people to farm land they could not afford called?
|
sharecropping
|
|
|
What is an official pardon for illegal acts called?
|
a pardon
|
|
|
How was the southern economy affected by the Civil War?
|
food was scarce, railroads were ruined, banks went out of business and businesses went bankrupt
|
|
|
What name was given to the laws which divided the South into 5 military districts until military control?
|
Reconstruction Acts
|
|
|
True or False
African Americans were accepted as equals after the Thirteenth Amendment. |
False
|
|
|
One way African Americans were kept from voting was that in order to vote, a tax had to be paid. What was this tax called?
|
a poll tax
|
|
|
True or False
The sharecropping system left many farmers always in debt. |
True
|
|
|
What terrorist organization used violence to deprive the freed slaves from exercising their civil rights?
|
Ku Klux Klan
|
