2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
◉ Johnson's plan of reconstruction.
Answer: Johnson was Lincoln's VP. Pro-union, from Tennessee. A
little more harsh then Lincoln's plan. All States would have to write
an anti-secession constitution and freedom of slaves.
◉ Problems with Johnson's plan.
Answer: The South did not trust Johnson. The south enacted black
codes. Southerners voted into congress. Riots occurred in south
against blacks.
◉ Wade Hampton.
Answer: Lt. General during war. His property was confiscated and
slaves were freed. Showed up to congress in confederate uniform.
People blamed Johnson for Hampton showing up.
◉ Northern Reaction.
Answer: Johnson was having problems with S.O.W, he was
impeached. Partially impeached by one vote. The last two years of
his presidency were controlled by radical republicans.
,◉ Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan.
Answer: South had to accept 14th amendment. Any southern
politician had to be accepted by radical republicans before they
could be sworn in. Military reconstruction act of 1867-south divided
and occupied by military that acted as police. It was difficult to
regain US citizenship for confeds. Each state had to create a pro-
union constitution. Had to accept 15th amendment. So many
southerners were disfranchised so northerners and blacks ruled the
south.
◉ 14th Amendment.
Answer: This amendment declared that all persons born or
naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless
of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state
and national levels.
◉ Freedmen's bureau.
Answer: Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves
to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and
helped them get jobs
◉ African Americans in Reconstruction.
Answer: Initially gained freedom, but were restricted by whites.
Eventually, southerners regained control of congress in 1870's
, ◉ Nathan B. Forrest.
Answer: 1866- confederate general founded the Klu Klux Klan-
terrorist acts to put fear into blacks to enforce white power; Grand
Wizard of the KKK
◉ Collapse of reconstruction.
Answer: RB Hayes ends republican reconstruction plan, pulls out
soldiers and pardons confederates. The reconstruction was a failure
and southerners never forgave.
◉ Jim Crow Era.
Answer: (1877-1969) Segregation reigned. Blacks got the lesser
stuff. Vagrancy laws were enacted. Grandfather clause-if your
grandfather could not vote, neither could you. Literacy tests to vote,
or poll fees.
◉ Plessy V. Ferguson.
Answer: a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state
ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites
were equal..formed in KT
◉ Culture of the Plains Indians.