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Reconstruction Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 15th Amendment | Gave black men the right to vote |
| Southern name for white Southerners who helped with Reconstruction | Scalawags |
| 13th Amendment | Prohibited slavery in the U.S |
| It forbade the President from dismissing federal officials without Senate approval | Tenure of Office Act |
| Impeach | Accuse of wrongdoing |
| This decision upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine | Plessy V. Ferguson |
| Black Codes | Law to restrict emancipated slaves |
| They wished to treat the South as conquered territory | Radicals |
| Freedman's Bureau | Provided meals, jobs, and schooling |
| This scandal involved the building of the transcontinental railroad | Credit Mobilier |
| The new state constitutions of the South included what three things | 1) Black Suffrage 2) Social welfare program 3) Free public schools |
| What was a result of Reconstruction in the South | Free public education for blacks and whites |
| President Johnson's lack of success in dealing with Congress after Lincoln's assassination resulted from | His inability to recognize how deeply Northerners felt about punishment of the South and protection of the emancipated slaves |
| Reconstruction resulted in what three things | 1) Free public education 2) Increase in white southerners fear of blacks 3) Valuable experience for blacks in the political life |
| As a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the South would finish the 9th century and enter the 20th century | Economically depressed |
| "I am for Negro suffrage in every rebel state. If it be just, is should not be denied, if it be necessary, it should be adopted; if it be a punishment to traitors they deserve it" | Thaddeus Stevens |
| Many Southerners tried to preserve their culture through various organizations epitomized by | KKK |
| How many years between Reconstruction and the next major effort on the part of the fed. gov't to guarantee African-Americans their civil rights | 90 years |
| What three things occurred during Grant's administration | 1) Major scandals 2)Economic depression 3) Boston & Chicago fires |
| By 1900, large numbers of former slaves were | Attending public schools |
| The electoral commission was set up to resolve the disputed election of 1876 voted in favor of | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Segregation in the South provided | For separate but inferior facilities for blacks |
| Southern laws that forced segregation of the races were called what | Jim Crow Laws |
| Both Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner | Leaders of the Radical Republic |
| Johnson was impeached mainly because | He didn't cooperate with the Radical Republicans |
| In the Southern states during Military Reconstruction | Free public schools were established, state gov't was accused of being corrupt. republican rule didn't last long |
| Andrew Johnson was like Lincoln in that he | Grew up poor in the South |
| Upon taking office as President, Andrew Johnson | Failed to provide firm direction to southerners willing to admit defeat |
| The Joint Committee of Fifteen was | Chosen to create a plan for readmitting the Confederate states |
| Lincoln wanted to readmit the Southern states after | 1/10th of the states voters took an oath of loyalty |
| The secretary of army formed by ex-confederates to preserve their former way of life was the | Secret army / KKK |
| What three things happened when Lincoln was assassinated | 1) Andrew Johnson became president 2) Confederates were elected to office 3) Black codes were enacted |
| The 1896 case in which the Supreme Court upheld the legality of segregated facilities was | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| The Wade-Davis Bill | Accepted by Lincoln as one approach to Reconstruction |
| Agricultural system in which a family cultivated land it didn't own, keeping a small part of whatever was grown and paying the rest as rent, known as | Sharecropping |
| Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction | Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction - 1/10th of states voters p[ledged an oath of loyalty |
| "With malic toward none" best expressed whose attitude towards Reconstruction of the South | Abraham Lincoln |
| Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were alike in that they | Wanted fed. gov't to help blacks |
| The law allowing the fed gov't to intervene in a state's affairs in order to protect | Civil Rights Act |
| During the Reconstruction period, Southerners generally referred to the Civil war as | "The war between states" |
| The laws passed by newly est. Southern legislators to restrict the freedom of the emancipated slaves were | Black Codes |
| The member of Congress from Penn. sometimes called "a humanitarian without humanity," who chaired the Joint Committee of Fifteen | Thaddeus Stevens |
| During the Civil War, Lincoln put forth his plan for bringing Southerners back into the Union in his | Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
| The Mass. senator described as the "conscience of the North" who fought for equal rights for African-Americans was | Charles Sumner |
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Drake Archer Peterson
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