Ch 16 Flashcards

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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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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

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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
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What did Johnson do to the Reconstruction act of 1867?

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What did congress do about Johnson’s veto?

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Overrode it

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This act protected radical members left in office form Lincoln's presidency
Tenure of office act
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Who did Johnson dismiss without senate approval?
Edwin Stanton
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Who won the election of 1868
Ulysses S Grant
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What did the 15 amendment do?
Guaranteed black males the right to vote
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These were the white supremacist portion of the south
Redeemers
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What tactics were used to limit the voting rights of blacks?
- poll taxes | - literacy tests
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These laws legalized segregation
Jim Crow laws
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What was another name for the enforcement acts?
KKK act
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What did the enforcement acts do?
Provided for federal supervision of registration and polling places to ensure the rights of freedmen
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Why did northern support for reconstruction decline?
- corruption in gov by grant - panic of 1873 - wars fighting in the west with NA's - money spent trying to regrow the south
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What election signaled the end of reconstruction?
Election of 1876
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Who was the republican candidate in the election of 1876?
Rutherford B Hayes
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Who was the democratic candidate in the election of 1876?
Samuel Tilden
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Who won for popular votes?
Samuel Tilden
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Why was the election turned over to the house?
Disputed election results in several states
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Who won the election?
Rutherford B Hayes
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What were the conditions for Rutherford B Hayes presidency?
He had to remove southern troops
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Famous South Carolina black leader of the civil war and reconstruction
Robert smells
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Why did the majority of congress oppose Lincoln's plans for reconstruction?
They did not trust confederates
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When was the wade Davis bill passed?
During the war
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What did Johnson think of Lincoln's emancipation policy?
He endorsed it because he saw it as a way to destroy the planter elite
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Johnson planned to abandon the republicans for the...
National union movement
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Who did Johnson initially want to replace Edwin Stanton as Secretary of war?
Grant
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Who does Johnson eventually appoint as Sec of War?
General Lorenzo Thomas