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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why didn't some Republicans vote to impeach President Johnson? | They did not think a president should be impeached for disagreeing with Congress. |
| Why did President Lincoln not get to see his reconstruction plan through? | he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth |
| What was Lincoln's Reconstruction plan called? | The 10% Plan |
| Whose Plan calls for state conventions to repeal secession | President Johnson's |
| Whose Plan said that 50% of voters in each rebelling state must take the oath of allegiance | Radical Republicans |
| This amendment ended slavery | 13th amendment |
| This amendment gave citizenship to everyone born in the US, including former slaves. | 14th amendment |
| This amendment stated that no male could be denied the right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” | 15th amendments |
| The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were nicknamed the ______ because they helped the former slaves. | Reconstruction amendments |
| Wanted harsh punishment for the South, were strongly against slavery. | Radical Republicans |
| Nickname given to the Northerners who moved to the South to profit during Reconstruction | Carpetbaggers |
| Term for Southerners who supported the Republican Party and Reconstruction | Scalawags |
| Plantation policy of "paying" former slaves with food and housing and was not much different than slavery | Sharecropping |
| The corrupt bargain between Democrats and Republicans that ended Reconstruction | Compromise of 1877 |
| Policy used in the South to deny voting rights to African Americans and enable poor whites to vote. | Grandfather clause |
| Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in what year | 1865 |
| What year was the 14th Amendment passed | 1868 |
| What year was President Grant elected | 1868 |
| What year was the 15th Amendment passed | 1870 |
| What year did Rutherford B. Hayes become president | 1876 |
| Reconstruction ended in what year | 1877 |
| What group helped to start many schools for blacks to attend. They also tried to help blacks with problems that they faced every day. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| What group was formed in the South to scare Blacks and keep them from voting | Ku Klux Klan |
| 10 percent of the southern voters had to take an oath of loyalty to the united states. State government had to abolish slavery. | Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan |
| Says 50% of voters in each rebelling state must take the oath of allegiance. Passes both houses of congress but vetoed by Lincoln. | Radical Republican's Plan |
| Ratify 13th amendment calls for the conventions to repeal succession. Eventually allows southern states to rejoin the union. | Andrew Johnson's Plan |
| northerners who came South to profit | Carpetbaggers |
| Who becomes the first Black US senator before Ulysses S. Grant is reelected president. | Hiram Revels |