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US history testtt
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 4 characteristics of the US | brave, rebellious,adventurous & independent |
| What is the Articles of Confederation? | 1st constitution of the US. made 1776,adopted 1781. made purposely weak. |
| What is Manifest Destiny? | the belief that willed the US to have all of the land between the Atlantic and pacific ocean. |
| What are the 3 branches?? | Legislative (congress) Executive (president) Judicial. |
| What are the bill of rights? | the 1st ten amendments of the constitution. |
| What is emancipation proclamation? | declared all slaves in confederate states of America free. |
| What was the 10 percent plan? | president Lincoln's plan to readmit the confederate states. |
| What was the Wade-Davis bill? | passed july 4, 1864. congression plan for reconstruction;abolish slavery; Lincoln pocket vetoed the bill. |
| Who & when was Lincoln assisinated? | John Wilkes assassinated Lincoln, april 14,1865 at Ford's theatre. |
| Who took over Lincoln's place? (his VP) | Andrew Johnson |
| What was president johnson's recontrucion proclamation? | pard on all low ranking southerners who take loyalty oaths |
| What did the 13th amendment do? | abolished slavery |
| what did the 14th amendment do? | gave freed slaves citizenship & everyone equal protection under the law. |
| What were black codes? | laws that prevented blacks to do certain things. |
| What did the 18565 congressional session do? | extended life of the freedmen's bureau. |
| What was the tenure of office act? | restricted president's ability to remove cabinet memberss. |
| What did the 15th amendment do?? | states could no longer deny suffrage (right to vote) based on race, color or previous condition of servitude. |
| Who were the carpet baggers? | white northerns going to the south |
| Who were the scalawags? | white southerners who cooperated with reconstruction |
| what was the Ku-klux plan? | attempted to regain power by recognizing blacks & whites who cooperated with Reconstruction |
| What were the legal ways of disfranchisement? | grandfather clauses, literacy test & poll taxes |
| What treaty ended the mexican war? | the treaty of guadalupe |
| which was the first state to secede from the united states? | south carolina? |
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