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AMH 2020 (questions correctly answered)A+ rated
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AMH 2020Black codes - correct answer ✔✔Special laws passed by southern state and m, laws passed in the south
just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African
American workers
carpetbaggers - correct answer ✔✔-1865-1877
-A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take
advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes by buying up land from desperate
Southerners and by manipulating new black voters to obtain lucrative government contracts.
Compromise of 1877 - correct answer ✔✔Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove
military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money
for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
crop-lien system - correct answer ✔✔in this system, Storekeepers granted credit until the farm was
harvested. To protect the creditor, the storekeeper took a mortgage, or lien, on the tenant's share of the
crop. The system was abused and uneducated blacks were taken advantage of. The result, for Blacks, was
not unlike slavery.
fifteen amendment - correct answer ✔✔( In 1870) The 15th amendment states that voting rights in
states cannot be withheld on the basis of race, color, or previous position of servitude.
(This was passed because southern states blocked the rights of freed blacks to vote -- the Supreme Court
never took this amendment seriously until the mid-1960s).
Force act - correct answer ✔✔1832 legislation that gave President Andrew Jackson the power to invade
any state if that action was necessary to enforce federal law; bill was in response to nullification of
federal tariff regulation by the legislature of South Carolina.
fourteen amendments - correct answer ✔✔(In 1866 ratified in 1868) It states that no state can make or
enforce any law which "deprives any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Also, states could not "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This
was passed to help blacks since the Civil Rights laws were not being enforced.
, Freedmen's Bureau - correct answer ✔✔1865 - 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
kuklux klan - correct answer ✔✔The KKK was devoted to 100% Americanism that used anti communism
as an excuse to harass any group unlike themselves
Radical Republicans - correct answer ✔✔This group in Congress, headed by Thaddeus Stevens and
Benjamin Wade, insisted on black suffrage, equal rights for Freedmen, and federal protection of the civil
rights of blacks. They gained control of Reconstruction in 1867 and demanded harsh, punitive policies
toward the Confederate State and ex-Confederates.
scalawags - correct answer ✔✔A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to
buy up land from desperate Southerners
sharecroppings - correct answer ✔✔Mostly Freedmen who had no tools or supplies, and worked,
farmed, and lived on someone else's land. Borrowed what they needed on credit from the owner, it was
a bad because the farmer always owed more money than they made on the farm, leaving them stuck in
this system.
Ten percent Plan - correct answer ✔✔Lincoln- when 10% of the states population swore an oath of
loyalty to the U.S. the state could form a new government, declare end of slavery and send
representatives to Congress
Thirteen Amendment - correct answer ✔✔In 1865 A Civil War Amendment; abolished slavery within the
United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. While some states elaborated on this
Amendment with laws, some other states introduced other rules to actually inhibit Black rights.
Wade-Davis bill - correct answer ✔✔Congress passed this bill in 1864 as a substitute for Lincoln's ten
percent plan. It required a majority of voters in a southern state to take a loyalty oath in order to begin
the process of Reconstruction and guarantee black equality. It also required the repudiation of the
Confederate debt. The president exercised a pocket veto, and it never became law.
Nativism - correct answer ✔✔fearing or hatred of immigrants
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