CH16 Flashcards
- According to the Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress, what was
required for southern states to rejoin the Union?
New state constitutions had to be written and the Fourteenth Amendment had to be ratified
- What led many in the South to protest northern efforts for equality?
Because the South was reduced to political dependence and economic destitution after the Civil War
- How did the Radical Republicans differ from President Lincoln in terms of how the country should proceed with Reconstruction?
The Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South
- Who was John Wilkes Booth and what was he trying to achieve?
He killed Abraham Lincoln to keep the Confederate fight going in the Civil War
- Why did Congress not allow southern senators and representatives to take their seats in Congress after President Andrew Johnson had agreed to do so?
Johnson’s terms for readmission were too lenient
- Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached?
Violating The Tenure in Office Act
- What was significant about the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868?
His victory allowed the continuance of the Radical Reconstruction program
- What was the consequence of congressional exclusion of women in the Fifteenth Amendment?
This congressional blunder led to a split in the civil rights movement that had once been united in support of African Americans and women
- What was meant by “redeeming” state governments in the South?
It was the effort of southerners to remove African Americans and their influence from state politics in the South
10.What gave African Americans hope that they would own land independent of working the land for former slave owners?
The Freedmen’s Bureau gave them hope of this by directing that leases and titles to lands in the South be made available to former slaves.
- What was the “Invisible Empire of the South?”
The Ku Klux Klan
12.Who won the popular vote in the 1876 election?
Samuel Tilden
13.What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877?
It continued Reconstruction for another ten years
