CHAPTER 16 STUDY GUIDE
ANSWER KEY
BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING TERMS
(Suggestion: create notes cards or T-notes)
1. “Separate but Equal”2. amnesty a pardon, or forgiveness, for a group of people
3. carpetbaggers - name given to northern whites who went south to start businesses or
to pursue political careers during Reconstruction
4. Fifteenth Amendment – 1870 right for former slaves to vote (still only males)
5. Fourteenth Amendment – 1868 equal protection of the laws
6. impeachment - the bringing of formal charges against a public official
7. Jim Crow Laws - the laws passed by southern states that barred mixing of the races in
most aspects of everyday life
8. Ku Klux Klan - the secret society that terrorized blacks and their white allies
9. poll tax - a personal tax being paid before voting
10. scalawags - name given to Southern whites who had opposed a secession
11. Thirteenth Amendment 1865 made slavery illegal
12. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction to bind the wounds of war as quickly as possible
Made it easy for the south to rejoin the Union and offered amnesty
to some former Confederates
13. Radical Reconstruction (key elements) – to have southern states write new
Constitutions and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before
rejoining the Union; to give African Americans the right to vote
14. Grandfather Clause - a provision that allowed voters to avoid a literacy test if his father
or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867
15. Freedmen’s Bureau – a government agency to provide emergency relief and to establish
schools, particularly for freedmen
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS USING COMPLETE SENTENCES
1. What problems did the Freedmen’s Bureau help solve?
The Freedmen’s’ Bureau set up schools for freedmen, helped them find jobs, and
settled disputes between blacks and whites.
2. What happened to the rights of African Americans after Reconstruction?
African Americans began to lose their rights after Reconstructions ended/ Poll taxes
and literacy tests were used to keep them from voting, and segregation forced them to
use separate facilities that were often inferior to those of whites.