Unit 4: A House Divided and Rebuilt-Chapter 17 – Flashcards
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Johnson's reconstruction plan
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Would restore the Union fairly would restore the Union fairly quickly
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When the boat or first counted in the 1876 presidential election
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No candidate had an electoral college majority
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All of the following are reasons why Republicans lost control in the south except
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Black voters switched to support the Democrats
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Why did Southern Dental cracks agree to the compromise of 1877
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It ensured the last federal troops would be withdrawn from Louisiana and South Carolina
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After the war rumors swept the South that ex slaves would receive
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40 acres and a mule
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The liberal Republicans
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Opposed grant
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All of the following statements about the 15th amendment are true except
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It ended slavery
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Why did service in the Union army or navy benefit many freedmen
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It provided training in leadership and alerted them to new opportunities and economic advancement and civic leadership
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The primary objective of the Klu Klux Klan was
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Oppressing blacks and white Republicans
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What happened after the end of Reconstruction
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The protections of black civil rights crumbled under the pressure of restored white rule and unfavorable Supreme Court decisions
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Lincoln's assassination Wilkes Booth
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With a pro Confederate actor
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The compromise of 1877
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Ended reconstruction
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Southern efforts to recreate a society that looked similar to the Confederacy had what political impact
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Moderate Republicans move to support Radical Republicans reconstruction policies
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during the Civil War Congress passed
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The Homestead Act of 1862 which gave 160 acres to settlers who lived on the land for five years
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Advocates of soft money or paper currency
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The economic benefits and price inflation
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During Reconstruction all of the following are true about African American involvement in the political arena during Reconstruction accept
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Several African Americans were elected as governors
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Emancipation had what impact on the south
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It left the South labor system in disarray
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Hard money advocates argued that government war bonds should be
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Paid off in gold
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Why was the 1876 Supreme Court decision in United States vs Cruikshank which pertains to the Colfax Massacre significant
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I decided that states rights trumped federal authority when it came to protecting freed blacks from white terrorist
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Why was Johnson picked as Lincoln's running mate in 1864
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As a gesture of unity they combined to create a national union ticket
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The main issue that caused the dispute between Congress and President Johnson was
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A growing conflict of opinion over reconstruction policy
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In 1866 congressional elections
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Gave Republicans veto proof majorities
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Northern voters supported grant mainly because of
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Military record
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On what basis did President Lincoln claim the right to the reconstruction
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Lincoln claimed on constitutional provisions pertaining to presidential power gave him the authority
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During Reconstruction African Americans
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Attempted to establish schools
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The Radical Republicans understood that essential to maintaining Republican control of the federal government was
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The rights of ex-slaves to vote
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When in late 1865 the former Confederate States sent a number of X Confederates to Congress the unionist in Congress
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Denied them their seats
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Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act when
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He tried to remove one of his cabinet members without Senate permission
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In the aftermath of the Confederacy's defeat religious minded white Southerners
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So no reason to change their thinking that God was on their side
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which of the following was NOT a task of the Freedmen's Bureau
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Arming the freedmen
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What was the most significant enduring legacy of reconstruction
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The passage of the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
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Johnson's proclamation of amnesty excluded the people he blamed for leaving the south into secession they were
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The wealthy planters merchants and bankers
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Christian missionaries who headed south after the war
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Austin brought with them a commitment to civil rights and a vision of biracial social and political equality for freed slaves
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What state was the only one in the nation that did not ratify all three constitutional amendments relating to ending slavery
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Kentucky
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The main purpose of the Union League was to
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Organized groups of Republicans in the south
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By the time President Grant took office Southern resistance to the reconstruction efforts had
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Turn violent
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Lincoln successor Andrew Jackson
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Was a pro union southerner
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Why did congressional Republicans write the wade-davis manifesto
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To protest Lincoln's Vito of the Wade Davis bill and the Q's Lincoln of exceeding his constitutional authority
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What was the main reason that Congress impeached Andrew Johnson
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Violation of the Tenure of Office Act
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Why did Radical Republicans want to disenfranchise former Confederates
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To keep them from electing Democrats eager to restore the old Southern ruling class to power
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Many former Confederates resented the new state constitutions imposed by Radical Republicans because
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They're provision allowed for black voting and civil rights
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In South Carolina the fact that lower-class whites enjoyed unprecedented political power under Radical Republican rule
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Led many former Confederate leaders to oppose the radical state
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Jay Gould and James Fisk triggered a scandal with their scheme to
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Corner the gold market
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Why didn't President Grant seek a third term in 1876
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By 1875 he acknowledged the growing opposition to his renomination
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In the north the Civil War especially elevated the power of
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Business leaders
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Ulysses S Grant
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Little political experience and judgement to the presidency
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Andrew Jackson was
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Impeached by the house but not convicted by the Senate
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The specie redemption Act of 1875
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Allowed for the redemption of greenbacks and gold
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Why did the radical led Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
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It was a response to the Black Codes and the Neo slavery system created by unrepentant southern legislature
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Most carpetbaggers were
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Union veterans
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Most scalawgs wear white Southerners who
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Opposed secession
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the military reconstruction act
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Required new state constitutions in the south
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Under Lincoln's plan for reconstruction
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10% of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union
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On what issue did the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates largely agree on during the 1876 campaign
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Relaxing federal authority in the south
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President Johnson fully broke with Congress in 1866 when he
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Vetoed a bill to continue the Freedmen's Bureau
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The Black Codes enacted by Southern legislature
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Try to restore key elements of slavery
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At the end of the Civil War the newly freed slaves were given
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Medical and legal assistance from the Bureau of refugees freedmen and abandoned lands
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The radical state governments in the South did all of the following EXCEPT
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Cut taxes
