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U.S. History Ch15
U.S. History Chapter 15 Vocabulary and Written Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's vice president |
| ten percent plan | Lincoln appointed a military governor for each captured state |
| Wade-Davis Bill | required military governors for each Southern state until a majority of all adult white males had signed an oath of allegiance |
| impeachment | indictment of a political official by Congress |
| 13th amendment | freed the slaves |
| 14th amendment | granted freedmen full citizenship in the United states, applied to the states the Constitution's provision that the federal government may not deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" |
| 15th amendment | "The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" |
| Military Reconstruction Act | imposed military occupation on the south |
| Black Codes | attempted to regulate the conduct of former slaves |
| carpetbaggers | Northern radical who moved to the South |
| scalawags | Southern radical |
| disfranchisment | denial of somebody's right to vote |
| sharecropping | method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash |
| redeemers | Southerners who wanted to oust republican rule and restore white majority rule |
| Ulysses S. Grant | general and leading hero of the republican party |
| Grantism | political corruption |
| William "Boss" Tweed | corrupt leader who defrauded New York City |
| Thomas Nast | political cartoonist who advocated reforms |
| Horace Greeley | eccentric New York newspaper editor who ran against Grant in 1872 |
| greenbacks | paper money not backed by gold or silver |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | winner in the most disputed, presidential election in American History |
| Samuel J. Tilden | lawyer who helped to reform the corruption in New York City |
| "the Solid South" | near unanimous support of the Democratic Party in the former Confederate states following Reconstruction |
| Hiram Revels | first black person to serve in the United States Congress |
| liberal republican | type of republican who opposed the radicals in 1872 |
| radical republican | republican minority that wanted to deal harshly with the South |
| What term refers to the national government's attempt to rebuild the South according to Radical Republican ideas? | Reconstruction |
| What period is known as the Era of Reconstruction? | 1865-1877 |
| What group did not agree with Lincoln concerning the percentage of Southern white males who should take the oath of allegiance before a state was readmitted to the Union? | radical republicans |
| What was the ten percent plan? | Lincoln appointed a military governor for each captured state |
| What was the Wade-David Bill? | required military governors for each Southern state until a majority of all adult white males had signed an oath of allegiance |
| What happened to Robert E. Lee after the war? | he collapsed one evening while preparing to say grace in 1870 and died a few days later; he rebuilt a school |
| What president generally supported Lincoln's plans for reconstruction? | Andrew Johnson |
| Who dismissed a radical secretary of war and was impeached? | Andrew Johnson |
| What act of Congress was designed to protect cabinet from being fired by the president? | Tenure of Office Act |
| Who was the first president to be impeached? | Andrew Johnson |
| What are the three provisions of the military reconstructionist act? | imposed military occupation on the South, divided the ten former Confederate states into five military districts |
| What government agency was designed to help former slaves following the war? | Freedman's Bureau |
| What extremist group opposed radical reconstruction and sought to prevent blacks from voting during reconstruction? | carpetbaggers |
| Early reconstruction Radical Republicans gained control of state governments in the South by denying the ______ to many Confederates. | right to vote |
| The positive contribution of radical government in the South: | education |
| Why did sharecropping become common in the South during reconstruction? | it was the only occupation the freed slaves knew |
| The hardships of reconstruction forced the South to produce ____, such as tobacco or cotton instead of staples such as wheat and rice. | cash crops |
| Who had one of the most scandal-ridden administrations in American History? | Ulysses S. Grant |
| What scandal involved a group's criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction? | Crédit Mobilier |
| In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate? | plan to gain control of the gold market |
| Why was Tammany Hall allowed to continue its corruption? | encouraged by the republican cartoonist Thomas Nast |
| What was the most severe depression in the first hundred years of American History? | Panic of '73 |
| What was the compromise of 1877? | Democrats would help Hayes, who would remove the federal troops from the South |
| What is meant by "waving the bloody shirt"? | Blaming Democrats for the war and treating them like traitors |
| What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in electing Rutherford B. Hayes as president? | He would remove the federal troops from the South |
| The Republican's heavy-handed effort to control the South created a powerful block of _____ who would oppose them for almost a century. | voters |
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