chapter 19 flashcards. vocabulary: 1. northerner congressmen who wanted to punish the south for...
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Chapter 19 Flashcards
Vocabulary: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.
LawsLaws
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: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.
AmendmentsAmendments: 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 Court Cases and Civil Rights and Civil Rights
LawsLaws 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 Reconstruction PlansPlans 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 13th
Amendment.
9. Southern state governments that
had not ratified the 14th 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 14th Amendment.