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History Unit 3
American History 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After Lincoln passed away, who took over as president? | Andrew Johnson |
| What was Lincolns 10% plan known as? | Plan that had 10% of southern voters take loyalty to the Union and rejoin the Union but is seen as a lenient approach |
| What is the Wade Davis Bill? | Vetoed by Lincoln and basically the same as his plan but 50% of the population and take an "iron clad" vote |
| What party was Andrew Johnson? | Southern Democrat who believed white men should govern the South and that he was following Lincoln |
| What happened when 6 Confederate cabinet member and 4 generals were elected into office? | Congress refused to admit them and a showdown between them and Johnson occurs about Reconstruction |
| Who were now free and fully counted as people so the South could have more seats? | Freedmen |
| What is Black Codes? | Restricts African Americans freedom, no guns, no owning land in town, be in employment of white man |
| What two riots happened because of black codes? | Memphis and New Orleans riots |
| What do Radical Republicans want to do at this time? | Transform southern society, protect freedmen, and punish ex-Confederates |
| Who leads the Radical Republicans? | Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner |
| What two things did Congress override Johnson's veto? | Extension of Freedmen Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| What is the Freedmen Bureau? | An agency that helped protect African Americans, aid them, and give education |
| What is the base of the 14th Amendment? | The Civil Rights Act |
| What is the 14th Amendment? | Citizenship to all born in the U.S. (Citizenship means equal protection in the U.S.) |
| Who was the first president to get impeached? | Andrew Johnson, House impeaches him and Senate falls short of 1 vote |
| What is Congressional Reconstruction? | The Congress take over Reconstruction instead of the president and required to respect Freedmen and ratify the 13 and 14 |
| What are Carpetbaggers? | Northerners who went to the South right after the war to help Reconstruction and seek opportunity |
| What are Scalawags? | White Southerners who cooperate with Republicans, seen as traitors |
| What is the Tenure of Office Act? | Restricted Johnson power to fire officials |
| How did Johnson go against the Tenure Office Act? | He fired the secretary of war, Edwin Stanton which then got him impeached |
| Who ran in the 1868 election? | Ulysses S. Grant and Horatic Seymour and Republicans won |
| How did Grant win? | African Americans voted for him and then Grand shows the 15th Amendment to ensure African Americans can vote |
| What was the South's economy like after the war? | Shattered, and large production decline |
| What is Sharecropping? | A landowner provided land and supplies, and laborers gave a share of there crop, lead to cycles of debt |
| What is Tenant Farming? | It allowed farmers to rent land from the rich to farm, but still poverty but not as bad |
| What systems did Tenant Farming and Sharecropping enforce? | Economic dependence and Subjugation |
| What is the KKK? | A group that had a violent reaction to reconstruction and used fear to try to stop African Americans from voting |
| What was the main party the KKK was apart of? | Democratic party in the white South |
| How did Grant react to the KKK? | He sent strong federal intervention to arrest KKK members and protect civil rights |
| What two acts helped get rid of the KKK temporarily? | Enforcement Acts and KKK Acts (1870-1871) |
| What did many African Americans hope for after the war? | "40 acres and a mule" but most never got it |
| What is the greatest legacy in Freedmen's Bureau? | Education to all, specifically the public school system |
| What is the 15th Amendment? | Granted black men the right to vote |
| Who was the first African American Senator from Mississippi? | Hiram Revels |
| Who was the first African American in the House from SC? | Joseph Rainy |
| What is Grantism? | Grant is personally honest but politically naive |
| What was it called when white Democrats started taking over again in 1877? | Redeemer or Redemption |
| What are Liberal Republicans? | People who broke with Grant and nominated Horace Greely |
| What is the greatest legacy that Freedmen Bureau established? | Education, Public school system |
| What scandal had railroad insiders funnel money through fake compasses to investors at the Government? | Credit Mobilier |
| What scandal had distillers giving Government officials money so they could skip on paying tax revenues? | Whiskey Ring |
| What is the Panic of 1873? | Economic Depression because of failure of finances and weakened public support for Reconstruction |
| Who ran in the election of 1872? | Horace Greely (Liberal Republican) vs Grant (Republican) and Grant won |
| What happened at the end of Reconstruction? | Redeemer Democrats dominated and Supreme court decision to end it was unconstitutional (14 and 15) |
| Who ran in the election of 1876? | Rutherford B. Hapes (R) vs Samuel Tilden (D) and Hapes wins |
| What happened when Hapes was elected? | Official end of Reconstruction |
| What happened after the Official end of Reconstruction? | Federal troops withdrew from the south, south segregated, returned south to "Home Rule" |
| When did Freedmen's Bureau end? | 1872 |
| Who was the Official that Andrew Johnson fired? | Edwin Stanton |
| What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867? | Congressional/Radical Reconstruction, South divided into 5 military districts, and states must ratify 14th Amendment |
| What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866? | First federal law to define citizenship and give rights regardless of race and Johnson vetoed but Congress override |
| What is Johnson's plan of Reconstruction? | Southern states must ratify 13 Amendment, Former Confeds quickly regain power, like Lincolns but pardons for one and all |
| Who is a Cartoonist from Harpers weekly who drew about Freedmen and Reconstruction? | Thomas Nast |
| What brings up gory images if you let the Democrats back in power and betraying the legacy of the Union? | "Waving the Bloody Shirt" |
| What is an armed rebellion against authority? | Insurgency |
| What is the 13th Amendment? | Neither slave nor involuntary servitude |
| What allowed the federal government to supervise elections and put down Klan activity? | Enforcement Acts |
| What election brought Reconstruction to an end? | The election of 1876 |
| Who is the editor of New York Tribune and led the Liberal Republican revolt? | Horace Greeley |
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