Honors Reconstruction and the New South Study Guide
1. Who were Northerners who came to the South for political or financial gain after
the Civil War?
2. What was a nickname for native white Louisiana Republicans during
Reconstruction?
3. Who was a powerful state-wide organization that served as the Democratic
Party’s army? Their goal was to drive out Republicans and keep freedmen in
check.
4. Name the three parts of the Ten Percent Plan.
5. What was Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
6. What were the key parts of the Military Reconstruction Act?
7. What were the key parts of the Constitution of 1868?
8. What amendment abolished slavery?
9. What amendment granted citizenship?
10. What amendment granted the right to vote regardless of race?
11. What was another for the country?
12. What was the name of local or state laws designed to keep blacks and whites
segregated?
13. What is disenfranchise?
14. What was the name given to a Democrat who helped to end Reconstruction in
the South?
15. What is a literacy test?
16. What was the grandfather clause?
17. What was a poll tax?
18. Describe the Colfax Riot.
19. Describe the Thibodaux Massacre.
20. In the Compromise of 1877, the nation’s Democrats agreed to let him win the
three contested states and become president with the agreement of ending
Reconstruction.
21. A carpetbagger from Illinois, he was a charming but highly corrupt governor who
used his position to accumulate great wealth before his impeachment.
22. He helped write the civil rights article at the Constitutional Convention, was
elected to the Louisiana state senate, and was the only black man to serve as
Louisiana's governor.
23. He became governor with the Compromise of 1877 ending Reconstruction and
tried to bring an end to the corrupt Louisiana Lottery.
24. How did the Louisiana State Lottery work?
25. Describe the Mafia.
26. Name three areas that were associated with the arts during the New South.
27. How did logging affect Louisiana?
28. What was the White League?
29. What were the Knights of the White Camellia?
30. Describe three ways African Americans were disenfranchised.
31. Explain the actions of Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court ruling.