Reconstruction Era Quiz

Reconstruction Era

• Lincoln's goal for Reconstruction focused on quickly reintegrating the South into the Union.
• Radical Republicans wanted a more punitive approach, aiming for significant social and political change in the South.
• The Ten Percent Plan proposed that a Southern state could rejoin the Union once 10% of its voters pledged loyalty to the Union.
• Andrew Johnson's impeachment stemmed from his opposition to Radical Republican policies. The impeachment trial sought to remove him from office.
• Reconstruction successes included establishing African American voting rights, and a significant growth in participation by Freedmen.
• The Compromise of 1877 resulted from disputed presidential election outcome, ending Reconstruction efforts and effectively withdrawing federal troops from the South.
• Hayes ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from Southern states.
• Following the 15th Amendment, many African Americans joined the Republican party.
• The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) used violence and intimidation to suppress African American rights.
• Black Codes were discriminatory laws aimed at limiting the rights of African Americans.
• Redeemers were Southern Democrats who regained political power and sought to restore the pre-Civil War social order.
• Sharecropping was a system where formerly enslaved people worked land owned by others and paid rent with a share of their crops.
• Enforcement Acts were laws designed to combat violence and discrimination against African Americans.
• The Freedmen's Bureau assisted newly freed slaves.

Other Topics

• Carpetbaggers: Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction to gain economic and political advantages.
• Compromise of 1877: A political agreement that effectively ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South.
• Booker T. Washington's views focused on economic self-sufficiency for African Americans through vocational education.
• The transcontinental railroad's economic benefits facilitated westward expansion and trade.
• Labor unions were formed to improve working conditions and wages.
• Robber barons were wealthy industrialists who amassed fortunes often through questionable or unethical business practices.
• Monopoly: control over an industry.
• Gospel of Wealth: An essay written by Andrew Carnegie advocating philanthropy among the wealthy.
• Social Darwinism: A theory that applied the idea of "survival of the fittest" to social and economic issues.
• Manifest Destiny: The belief that the US was destined to expand across North America.
• The Open Door Policy: A US foreign policy in which the US proposed that all nations should have equal access to trade with China.
• Anti-Imperialists opposed US expansionist policies.
• Roosevelt Corollary: An extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserting the right of the U.S. to intervene in Latin American affairs.
• Treaty of Versailles: ended World War I, but its terms contributed to the conditions of World War II.
• Fourteen Points: Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after World War I, aiming for self-determination and international cooperation.
• Harding's administration: an era known for corruption and scandal.
• Henry Ford's impact: assembly line production techniques transformed manufacturing.
• 19th Amendment: Granted women the right to vote.
• Palmer Raids: Federal raids on suspected radicals and communists.
• 18th Amendment: Prohibition (banning of alcohol).
• Prohibition's side-effects: increased organized crime and illegal activities.
• Red Scare: Period of intense fear of communism and radicalism.
• Native Americans and the government (1924): Continued governmental suppression and disenfranchisement, continuing difficulties.
• Sacco and Vanzetti: Two Italian immigrants convicted of murder.
• Roaring Twenties: A period of economic prosperity and social change.