Chapter 19 Flashcards

Vocabulary:

1. Northerner congressmen who wanted to punish the South for rebelling against the federal government.

2. Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.

3. Southerner “traitors” who supported the Republican Party and its Reconstruction policies after the war.

4. Newly freed former slaves.

5. Southern whites who sought to restore whites to their superior political position over blacks.

6.Southerners were offered this “forgiveness” in exchange for an oath of loyalty.

7. The period after the war when the South was reorganized & restored to the Union.

8.White southerners sought to _____, or separate, blacks from whites in theaters & restaurants.

9.Congress voted to _____, or bring charges of wrong doing against President Johnson.

10. A system in which a farmer worked land owned by someone else in exchange for a portion of the crop.

Laws

1.Led to the arrests of thousands of KKK members who intimidated and used violence to keep blacks from voting.

2.Insured that all southern whites, even those who were poor & uneducated, could vote.

3. Passed by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction to govern the conduct of blacks.

4. Required a fee to be paid in order to vote in public elections.

5.Designed to separate blacks and whites in the South.

6. Required voters to read aloud and interpret a portion of the Constitution.

People:

1.First black to be elected to the United States Senate in 1870.

2. Who became President when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?

3.Who was the Civil War hero elected President of the United States in 1868 and 1872?

4. Who became President after the disputed election of 1876?

5. Who became the first former slave to be elected to the United States Senate?

6.Who planned a lenient plan of Reconstruction that required less than a majority of Southerners to take oaths of loyalty?

7.Democrat who almost won the election of 1876.

8.Democratic candidate for President in 1868.

9.Leader of the Radical Republicans in the Senate.

10.Assassin of President Lincoln.

11.Leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.

12.The Secretary of War whom President Johnson fired.

Amendments Amendments: Match each statement with the Amendment of which it is a part.

1.“No state shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

2.“All persons born…in the United States…are citizens of the United States and the state wherein they reside.”

3. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, shall exist within the United States.”

4.“No state shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

5. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by…any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

6.“When the right to vote…is denied to any of the male inhabitants of state, the representation of that state in Congress shall be reduced.”

Court Cases and Civil Rights Laws Court Cases and Civil Rights Laws Match each statement with the Case/Law of which it is a part.

1. Prohibited racial discrimination in schools and the workplace.

2. Ruled that “separate is inherently [naturally] unequal”

3. The plaintiff’s complaint had to do with separation in schools.

4. The plaintiff’s complaint had to do with separation in railroad cars.

5. Ruled that segregation was legal where there were separate but equal facilities.

6. Increased black voter registration to 65%.

Reconstruction Plans Reconstruction Plans Match each provision with the plan of which it was a part. (Lincoln’s Plan, Johnson’s Plan, or Reconstruction Act)

1. Blacks must be permitted to vote in all Southern states.

2. 10% of the voters in each southern state were required to swear an oath of loyalty to the U.S.

3. The South is divided into 5 military districts.

4. Each southern state must write a new Constitution in which blacks are granted equal rights, especially the right to vote.

5. Reflected the belief that Confederate states should be readmitted quickly and easily

6. Amnesty is given to all Southerners, except high Confederate officials and leaders.

7. States had to abolish slavery.

8. Southern states must ratify the 13 th Amendment.

9. Southern state governments that had not ratified the 14 th Amendment were thrown out.

10. Required a majority of voters in each southern state to swear loyalty to the United States.

11. The most lenient (or least punishing) of the Reconstruction Plans.

12. Amnesty was offered in exchange for loyalty oaths, except to those who were Confederate leaders or who had more than $20,000.

13. The harshest (or most punishing) of the Reconstruction Plans.

14. Opposed by many Republicans because they thought it to be too generous—thought the South should be punished: wanted a higher percentage of each state’s voters to take an oath of loyalty and Confederate soldiers be disqualified to vote.

15. Southern states must ratify the 14 th Amendment.