Reconstruction Era Study Guide Key PDF

Name The Reconstruction Era Study Guide Study all ten denitions on pages 2 & 3!! Use 1. Describe the Freedman’s Bureau (pg8) It was made to protect the formerly enslaved people, they provided fo...

Name The Reconstruction Era Study Guide Study all ten denitions on pages 2 & 3!! Use 1. Describe the Freedman’s Bureau (pg8) It was made to protect the formerly enslaved people, they provided food and medical care, helped with wages and working conditions, distributed some land, and set up schools 2. What were the THREE purposes of “black codes”? (pg8) Limit the rights of freedmen help planters find workers to replace the people they used to enslave keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order 3. What did the 13th Amendment do? (pg7) Abolish slavery 4. What did the 14th Amendment guarantee? (pg9) Civil rights and equal protection of the law 5. What exactly does the 15th Amendment say? Written in italics (pg13) States cannot deny anyone the right to vote because of race or color or because the person was once enslaved 6. What were the 2 major aims (goals) of President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan? (pg 7) -Southern states had to create new state governments -abolish slavery (13th amendment) 7. How was Congress’ plan for Reconstruction dierent from President Johnson’s? (pg9) Radical Republicans in Congress wanted freedmen to be granted full rights of citizenship. Andrew Johnson did not believe in equal rights 8. Why was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) formed? (pg14) To drive African Americans out of political life through threats, violence, terrorism, and murder 9. Why did Congress pass the Enforcement Acts? (pg14) To stop violence against African Americans 10. What was the Amnesty Act? What was its result? (pg15) It allowed most former Confederates (white Southerners) to vote again, the result was that the Democrats (mostly white people who had been in power before the war) regained power 11. What was the Compromise of 1877? (pg15) It settled the dispute over the election of 1876, Hayes became President and the troops left the South  ending Reconstruction Name 12. What were Jim Crow laws? (pg14) Laws that required separation of blacks and whites in public places 13. What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy vs. Ferguson? What happened as a result of this court case? (pg14) Segregation did not violate the Constitution as long as the facilities were roughly equal, the result was that states passed more Jim Crow laws 14. Describe methods used to deny how these rights were taken from African Americans. Education: (pg13) funding for public schools was cut so many African Americans could no longer afford to go to school Voting Rights (2 ways): (pg13) poll taxes said you had to pay a tax to vote and African Americans could not afford to pay it, some states required literacy tests and gave harder tests to African Americans 15. African Americans responded to segregation in many ways but what pulled them to other parts of the country? (pg18) The hope of better opportunities and more equal treatment 16. Describe how African Americans that stayed in the South work to improve their lives, (pg18) They worked hard in their families, churches, and communities to improve their lives. They started their own businesses and built their own schools. Historical Thinking Skills 17. Place the four events in order of when they happened. (1 is rst-4 is last) __2__An amendment is added to the Constitution that says that states cannot deny the right to vote because of race, color, or because someone was once enslaved. __3__In the case Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court decides that segregation laws are Constitutional. __4__Thousands of black families left the South for other parts of the US. __1__An amendment is added to the Constitution abolishing slavery throughout the US.