TN History Final PASSED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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TN History
TN History Final PASSED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Sharecropping - Correct Answer- A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in
which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
Freedmen - Correct Answer- Enslaved people who had been ...
TN History Final PASSED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Sharecropping - Correct Answer- A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in
which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
Freedmen - Correct Answer- Enslaved people who had been freed by the war
Brownlow and the Radicals - Correct Answer- Promoted freedmen's rights and
disenfranchised former Confederates, created voter registration systems,
Franchise Bill of 1865 - Correct Answer- barred former supporters of the Confederacy from
voting for 5 years, also set up voter registration
Franchise Bill of 1866 - Correct Answer- voided all previous voter registrations and decreed
that all voter must be re-registered by governor appointed election commissioners
Fourteenth Amendment - Correct Answer- guarantees equal protection of the law and rights
of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the USA, including former slaves.
Fifteenth Amendment - Correct Answer- guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or
previous condition of servitude
State Guard - Correct Answer- Used to intimidate voters into voting for Brownlow, under the
command of the governor, had black and white troops
Emerson Etheridge - Correct Answer- defeated by Brownlow in 1867 governor's election
Freedman's Bureau - Correct Answer- 1865, aid former slaves through education, health care,
and employment
, Fisk University - Correct Answer- became one of the nation's preeminent black colleges,
instituted a normal teacher training program
Memphis Riots of 1866 - Correct Answer- 1866, one of the bloodiest and most destructive
race riots in American history
KKK - Correct Answer- The Klan promoted "100 percent Americanism", terrorized divorced
women and turned prostitutes over to local law enforcement, appealed to conservative
Tennesseans by opposing "immorality."
Ku Klan Act of 1868 - Correct Answer- authorizes the President to use martial law and
impose heavy penalties to suppress the KKK
DeWitt Senter - Correct Answer- replaced Brownlow after he goes to the Senate, relaxes
some of Brownlow's laws, demobilizes the State Guard, and relaxes martial law, still Radical
Constitution of 1870 - Correct Answer- Governor's authority to use militia restricted,
universal male suffrage - poll taxes, restricts governor much more, prohibits state from
undermining small businesses
Robert Love Taylor - Correct Answer-
Centennial Exposition - Correct Answer- The first world's fair held in the United States, the
Expo celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
L & N Railroad Company - Correct Answer- one of the most powerful economic and political
forces in Tennessee, Louisville & Nashville
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