U.S. History Chapter 16 – Flashcards

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The term Reconstruction refers to the
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period immediately after the civil war
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The escaped slave who captured a Confederate steamship and later went on to become a U.S. congressman was?
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Robert Smalls
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A minimal Reconstruction policy was favored by?
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Lincoln
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President Lincoln's Reconstruction plans were committed to?
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Speedy reconstruction and minimum changes in the south.
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Most congressional Republicans believed?
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former confederates thought slavery was wrong blacks shouldn't be constricted
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Lincoln's response to the Wade-Davis Bill was to?
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Stop it with a pocket veto.
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The man who became president of the United States after Lincoln's assassination was?
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Andrew Johnson
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As early as 1863, Lincoln proposed a plan for restoring southern state governments based of what percent of the voting population of 1860 taking a loyalty oath to the Union?
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10
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Which one of the following is an INCORRECT match?
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thirteenth amendment- abolished slavery Wade-Davis Bill- embodied presidential reconstruction fourteenth amendment- made african americans citizens tenure of office act- Johnson violated fifteenth amendment- prohibited that you can't deny right to vote based on race, color, etc.
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Which of the following required 50 percent of southern voters to take an oat of loyalty to the Union before the southern states could regain their status as states?
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Wade-Davis Bill
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President Andrew Johnson was
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A war democrat, not a great humanitarian, from Tennessee, unionist southerner, elected in Tennessee even though supported union
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Which one of the following constitutional amendments abolished slavery?
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thirteenth amendment
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Andrew Johnson believed that Reconstruction should
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guarantee southern ruling class would not regain power
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In implementing Johnson's plan, southern states did each of the following?
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repealed secession, intend repudiate, confederate debt, ratify 13th amendment, passed black codes
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Johnson's Reconstruction plan
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failed to break power of planters cities
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Black Codes showed that
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Southerners wanted blacks to return to their positions as servants
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The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the
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civil rights act of 1866
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The congressional alternative to Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction program was the
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fourteenth amendment
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The Fourteenth Amendment stipulated that any state that denied the right to vote to African Americans would
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lose congresional representation reduced preportionally
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The Radical Republicans believed
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that the rights of freedmen will be protected by federal government
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Which of the following constitutional amendments attempted to give civil rights to the former slaves?
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fourteenth amendment
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Which of the following constitutional amendments was opposed by Andrew Johnson
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fourteenth amendment
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In the congressional elections of 1866
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the results served as a referendum for the 14th amendment
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Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were
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Radical leaders in congress
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Which one of the following individuals was not a radical republican?
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was: sumner, stevens, stanton, julian not: Johnson
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The South's refusal to ratify the fourteenth amendment
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forced republicans to abolish existing southern governments
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The Reconstruction Acts
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were actually less severe retreat from true radicalism
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The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
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placed the south under military rule
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President Andrew Johnson was opposed by
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Radical Republicans
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Andrew Johnson was indicted by the House for his violation of the
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Tenure of office act
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Andrew Johnson's acquittal on impeachment charges resulted from
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the fears of being too much for congress
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During Reconstruction, African Americans
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divided/segregated communities
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For the South, recovery from the devastation of the Civil War
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would be long and hard, dependent on a new economic system
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The legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans was
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poverty and discrimination
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By the end of 1865, most freedmen had
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returned to work on plantations
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The federal agency designed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom was known as the
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Freedmen Bureau
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Which one of the following groups was not part of the southern coalition supporting Radical Reconstruction?
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white planters
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Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called
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carpet baggers
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Most southern African Americans who held political power during Reconstruction
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concentrated their efforts on educational and political reform
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The small number of African Americans elected to state or national office during the Reconstruction demonstrated on the average
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more integrity and competence than their white counter parts
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Ulysses S. Grant was not able to
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resolve the problems of the time
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The political party that kept the money issue alice into the 1880s was
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Greenbacks labor party
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What amendment to the Constitution states that no person could be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
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15th amendment
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Which of the following groups was disappointed by the Fifteenth Amendment
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feminists
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The organization that symbolized most vividly the "white backlash" of the Reconstruction era was
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kkk
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The warning of the radical organization shown above was aimed at all of the following groups
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blacks, carpet baggers, radical republicans, scallowags, redeemers, freedmens bureau, agency officials
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Liberal Republicans endorsed
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reform of civilization
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Who was a prominent Liberal Republican
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Carl Schurz
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Which of the following was not a scandal during the Grant Administration?
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was: credit mobilier scandal, "whiskey ring" scandal, bell rap coverup, Indian trading post not: teapot dome
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The result of the disputed election of 1876 was significant because it
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meant it was the end of reconstruction
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The celebration of freed African Americans over their hard-won rights was short lived due to the white southern state legislatures passing of the
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Jim Crow Laws
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The Redeemers believed
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in the principles of Laissez fair and white supremacy
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