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What did the ten percent plan entail?

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  • It would grant amnesty to all who took an oath of loyalty

- when 1/10 of voters took oath states could send reps back to congress and establish state govs

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What was Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction?

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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction Plan aka 10% plan

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What was Lincoln’s goal for reconstruction?

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Get the union back together as quickly as possible

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This was an unsuccessful attempt from radical republicans to try to set reconstruction policy

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Wade Davis bill

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What did the Wade Davis Bill entail?

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  • abolish slavery
  • make south deny succession
  • keep confederate officials from holding office or voting
  • establish military governors in the south
  • when a majority of state citizens swore allegiance a constitutional convention could be held
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What did Lincoln do to the Wade David Bill?

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Pocket vetoed it

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What did the 13 amendment do?

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Emancipated all slaves

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This was established by radicals and helped free men transition from slavery to freedom

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Freedmens bureau

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What department ran the Freedmens bureau?

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War Dept

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Northerners who moved to the south to try to rebuild society

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Carpetbaggers

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White southerners who switched from being democrats to being republican

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Scalawags

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Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination ?

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Andrew Johnson

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What political party did Andrew Johnson belong to?

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Democrat

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What did Johnson think about aristocrats?

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He was anti aristocrat

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What were Johnson’s conditions for confederate states to enter the union?

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States had to do away with

  • slavery
  • succession
  • debt
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How did Johnson deal with confederate military leaders?

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Granted amnesty to them upon oathe

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These were passed to regulate the lives of black people

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Black codes

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17
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This amendment extended civil rights to all people and made black people citizens

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14th amendment

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Which two bills did Johnson veto that created tension between congress and the president?

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  • extension of the Freedmens bureau

- the 1866 civil rights act

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What did congress do in response to Johnson’s vetoes?

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Overturned them

20
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What was the center of the debates in the midterm elections of 1866?

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14th amendment

21
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What did the Reconstruction act of 1867 do?

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Sets standards for south to be readmitted into the union

  • passage of 13 & 14 amendments
  • established 5 military districts in the south
22
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What did Johnson do to the Reconstruction act of 1867?

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Veto

23
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What did congress do about Johnson’s veto?

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Overrode it

24
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This act protected radical members left in office form Lincoln’s presidency

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Tenure of office act

25
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Who did Johnson dismiss without senate approval?

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Edwin Stanton

26
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Who won the election of 1868

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Ulysses S Grant

27
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What did the 15 amendment do?

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Guaranteed black males the right to vote

28
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These were the white supremacist portion of the south

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Redeemers

29
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What tactics were used to limit the voting rights of blacks?

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  • poll taxes

- literacy tests

30
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These laws legalized segregation

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Jim Crow laws

31
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What was another name for the enforcement acts?

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KKK act

32
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What did the enforcement acts do?

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Provided for federal supervision of registration and polling places to ensure the rights of freedmen

33
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Why did northern support for reconstruction decline?

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  • corruption in gov by grant
  • panic of 1873
  • wars fighting in the west with NA’s
  • money spent trying to regrow the south
34
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What election signaled the end of reconstruction?

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Election of 1876

35
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Who was the republican candidate in the election of 1876?

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Rutherford B Hayes

36
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Who was the democratic candidate in the election of 1876?

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Samuel Tilden

37
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Who won for popular votes?

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Samuel Tilden

38
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Why was the election turned over to the house?

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Disputed election results in several states

39
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Who won the election?

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Rutherford B Hayes

40
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What were the conditions for Rutherford B Hayes presidency?

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He had to remove southern troops

41
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Famous South Carolina black leader of the civil war and reconstruction

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Robert smells

42
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Why did the majority of congress oppose Lincoln’s plans for reconstruction?

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They did not trust confederates

43
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When was the wade Davis bill passed?

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During the war

44
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What did Johnson think of Lincoln’s emancipation policy?

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He endorsed it because he saw it as a way to destroy the planter elite

45
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Johnson planned to abandon the republicans for the…

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National union movement

46
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Who did Johnson initially want to replace Edwin Stanton as Secretary of war?

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Grant

47
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Who does Johnson eventually appoint as Sec of War?

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General Lorenzo Thomas