AMH 2020 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS| UPDATED
Morgan Report
The Morgan report said the opposite: US forces exonerated of culpability, minister
Stevens
exonerated, and Queen Liliʻuokalani
identified as solely responsible for overthrow. (Morgan was a segregationist and
Grand Dragon of the KKK who wanted to relocate Blacks to Hawaii and the other
Pacific Islands
Reconstruction
The period after the civil war in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy
were brought back into the U.S. The south was divided into military districts.
martial law
type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens' rights are suspended
,Radical Republicans
These were a small group of people in 1865 who supported black suffrage. They
were led by Senator Charles Sumner and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. They
supported the abolition of slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy during
the war and after.
Wade-Davis Bill
an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for
anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill
thinking it was too harsh.
Black codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states
following the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves)
during the Reconstruction era of the United States
share cropper
People who rented and farmed a plot of land; owners provided seed, fertilizer, and
tools in return for a share of the crop at harvest time
, Compromise of 1877
Deal that settled the 1876 presidential election contest between Rutherford Hayes
(Rep) & Samuel Tilden (Dem.); Hayes was awarded presidency in exchange for the
permanent removal of fed. troops from the South--> ended Reconstruction
Plessy v. Ferguson
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long
as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
It is a landmark case, in that it sanctioned de jure (by right) segregation of races in
American schools.
Jim Crow Laws
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Progressivism
movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization
by promoting reforms
CORRECT ANSWERS| UPDATED
Morgan Report
The Morgan report said the opposite: US forces exonerated of culpability, minister
Stevens
exonerated, and Queen Liliʻuokalani
identified as solely responsible for overthrow. (Morgan was a segregationist and
Grand Dragon of the KKK who wanted to relocate Blacks to Hawaii and the other
Pacific Islands
Reconstruction
The period after the civil war in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy
were brought back into the U.S. The south was divided into military districts.
martial law
type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens' rights are suspended
,Radical Republicans
These were a small group of people in 1865 who supported black suffrage. They
were led by Senator Charles Sumner and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. They
supported the abolition of slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy during
the war and after.
Wade-Davis Bill
an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for
anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill
thinking it was too harsh.
Black codes
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states
following the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves)
during the Reconstruction era of the United States
share cropper
People who rented and farmed a plot of land; owners provided seed, fertilizer, and
tools in return for a share of the crop at harvest time
, Compromise of 1877
Deal that settled the 1876 presidential election contest between Rutherford Hayes
(Rep) & Samuel Tilden (Dem.); Hayes was awarded presidency in exchange for the
permanent removal of fed. troops from the South--> ended Reconstruction
Plessy v. Ferguson
a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long
as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
It is a landmark case, in that it sanctioned de jure (by right) segregation of races in
American schools.
Jim Crow Laws
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
Progressivism
movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization
by promoting reforms
