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Unit 4 SG
American History Post Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened under Pres. Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan? | Southern states were governed much as they were before the Civil War. |
| List ways the 13th Amend. took a step toward equal rights in the US. | Slavery was abolished across the US. |
| Explain: Lincoln's Plan | Required 10% of the state's registered voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union. |
| Explain: Wade Davis Bill | Required 50% of the Southern state's registered voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union. |
| Explain: Johnson's Plan | Denied amnesty to wealthy plantation owners in the south. |
| Explain: Black Code | The Southern states passed a set of laws restricting the rights of blacks. |
| Explain: Role of Ulysses S. Grant | President of the US |
| Explain: Radical Republicans | They overrode any presidential veto that they felt did not support Reconstruction. They created harsher requirements for allowing former Confederate states to rejoin the Union. |
| Explain: 13th Amendment | Abolish Slavery in the US |
| Explain: 14th Amendment | Guarantee citizenship to anyone born in the US |
| Explain: 15th Amendment | Guarantee all men of the US the right to vote |
| Explain: Military Reconstruction Act | To restrict the president's power over Reconstruction. To secure the rights of Black people in the South. |
| Explain: Red Shirts | Extremist group that operated in the South |
| Explain: George S. Boutwell | The secretary of the treasury |
| Explain: Republican Party | Upheld Enf acts, won election in 1976, sympathized with American Americans |
| Explain: Democratic Party | Sympathized with southern extremist threatened filibuster in election 1976 |
| Explain: Confederacy | President Grant wanted to end their power |
| List ways the Radical Republicans in Congress opposed President Andrew Jonson's Reconstruction plan. | It did not require the southern states to grant voting rights to formerly enslaved people |
| Explain: Freedman's Bureau | Effort by congress to protect the rights of the newly freed enslaved people. |
| List how the Reconstruction plans of President Abraham Lincoln and Pres. Andrew Johnson simular. | Both received opposition from the Radical Republicans. |
| Explain ways that made President Grant corrupt | He appointed wealthy people who had donated money for his political campaign to federal offices. He appointed his friends and family members to influential offices in government. |
| List re3asons for implementing Reconstruction in the South. | To protect the rights of African Americans. To unite the country without granting Southern states too much power. |