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Foy Ch. 17 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In a system of farming the land after the Civil War, the landowner provided the land, tools and supplies, while who provided the labor? | sharecroppers |
| What Union General wanted to repay former slaves for their forced labor during slavery with 40-acre plots of land. | William T. Sherman |
| You are a former slave. You must use separate public facilities as white people. What is the term for this forced racial separation? | segregation |
| What was Ulysses S. Grant's campaign slogan when he ran for President? | "Let Us Have Peace" |
| What conditions did tired southern soldiers find after they returned home from the Civil War? | damaged economy and destroyed farms |
| What group wanted the Federal government to force change in the South? | Radical Republicans |
| What were the Democrats called who brought their party back to power in the South? | Redeemers |
| Which amendment banned slavery throughout the United States? | thirteenth |
| Lawmaking groups used this process to bring charges of illegal activity against a public official, such as Andrew Johnson. | impeachment |
| What were the laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans? | Black Codes |
| Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote? | fifteenth |
| By the 1880’s, what laws, that made segregation legal in the southern states, were common in the South? | Jim Crow laws |
| What political party had southern African Americans as their largest group of voters? | Republican |
| What law passed in 1875 guaranteed African Americans equal rights in public places such as theaters? | Civil Rights Act |
| What man, who was the son of a former slave, was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate? | Hiram Revels |
| Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans? | Thaddeus Stevens |
| As more of what group of people took office, did more white southerners begin to call for the end of Reconstruction? | African Americans |
| Who created the Ten Percent Plan to allow southern states to reenter the Union? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What was the group of white Southerners from Tennessee who were against giving civil rights to African Americans. | Ku Klux Klan |
| What agency, established in 1865, provided help for freed people and certain poor people in the South. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| What was the process of allowing the former Confederate States to reenter the Union? | Reconstruction |
| What government body was controlled by Republicans after the election of 1866? | congress |
| Reconstruction governments established what laws that divided the South into five military districts? | Reconstruction Acts |
| Who was the president of the United States in 1866? | Andrew Johnson |
| In an effort to deny the vote to African Americans, what was created to force people to pay a tax before they could vote? | poll tax |
| Why did Congress refuse to readmit Southern states after Johnson had already declared the Union to be restored? | There were too many new elected representatives who were former Confederate leaders. |
| What issue did the Republican party most agree on during Reconstruction? | abolishing slavery |
| What was the purpose of the Ten Percent Plan? | Lincoln wanted to allow southern states to reenter the Union peacefully. |
| Under the Ten Percent Plan, what did Southerners have to do in order to be readmitted into the Union? | Swear allegiance to the Union and agree that slavery was illegal. |
| How did General William Tecumseh Sherman want to repay former slaves for their forced labor? | Give them 40-acre plots of land taken from the Confederates. |
| How was Johnson's Reconstruction plan different from Lincoln's plan? | Wealthy Southerners and former Confederate officials had to receive a presidential pardon. |
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