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.