Chapter 1- The Weaknesses Of Federal Government

Question 1

Which elections did Abraham Lincoln win?

Answer 1

The 1960 and 1964 election

Question 2

When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

Answer 2

April 1865

Question 3

Who murdered Abraham Lincoln and where?

Answer 3

John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s theatre

Question 4

What was Abraham Lincoln’s assassination part of?

Answer 4

A major plot against the federal government, which also involved vice president Andrew Johnson ( who’s assassin panicked and ran) and secretary of state William Seward ( who was badly hurt in a knife attacked but survived.

Question 5

What happened to those involved in the assassination plot against the federal government?

Answer 5

John Wilkes Booth was shot dead by soldiers and 4 others were hanged in July 1865

Question 6

When was the 13th amendment ratified?

Answer 6

December 6th 1865

Question 7

What was Lincoln’s 2 part plan for reconstruction?

Answer 7

1. To pardon all southerners except high ranking confederates if they swore allegiance.
2. 10% plan- new gov representation for any state where 10% of its qualified voters took a loyalty oath.

Question 8

What were the 3 sections of the constitution?

Answer 8

The executive ( the White House), the legislature ( congress) and the judiciary ( the Supreme Court)

Question 9

Who is part of the executive?

Answer 9

The president, the vice-president and the cabinet.

Question 10

Who is part of the legislature?

Answer 10

Senate and House of Representatives

Question 11

Who is part of the judiciary ?

Answer 11

Nine justices led by the chief justice

Question 12

What was the state of the federal government in 1865?

Answer 12

1. Limited authority and power.
2. Small and had no large bureaucracy to implement policies nationwide.

Question 13

Which election was Andrew Johnson Lincoln’s running mate for?

Answer 13

1964

Question 14

Where did he represent Tennessee?

Answer 14

The house of representatives and the senate. ( only ex president to serve in senate as he was elected 1875)

Question 15

When was Andrew Johnson impeached and how many charges did he have against him?

Answer 15

1868 and 11 charges

Question 16

How narrowly did Andrew Johnson avoid conviction by?

Answer 16

One vote

Question 17

How many southern senators remained in congress following the civil war?

Answer 17

One, Andrew Johnson

Question 18

Did Andrew Johnson oppose or support emancipation ( freeing of slaves)?

Answer 18

Support

Question 19

What was Andrew Johnson’s aim from presidential reconstruction when he launched his plan in may 1865?

Answer 19

To quickly bring south back into the political mainstream.

Question 20

What was Andrew Johnson’s plan for presidential reconstruction?

Answer 20

1. All southerners except confederate soldiers and rich plantations owners to be pardoned if they swore an oath of allegiance.
2. To open way for state conventions to set up new lawful governments

Question 21

How many pardons did Andrew Johnson issue?

Answer 21

Approximately 13,000

Question 22

What terms did states have to reach to set up a new lawful government under Andrew Johnson’s plan for presidential reconstruction?

Answer 22

1. Accept abolition of slavery.
2. Renounce illegal action of breaking away from the union in 1861.

Question 23

What was the response to Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plans?

Answer 23

Intense opposition, plans to prosecute confederate leaders for treason were dropped and new state goes were dominated by the same old southern elites.

Question 24

What were Black codes?

Answer 24

Restrictions of legal and economic rights of freedmen.

Question 25

What were the four competing political factions?

Answer 25

1. Democrats, conservative republicans, moderate republicans and radical republicans.

Question 26

What was Johnsons first use of the presidential veto?

Answer 26

It was against the renewal of the freedmen’s bureau in February 1866.

Question 27

What was congress response to the use of the veto against the freedmen’s bureau ?

Answer 27

They passed another act in July 1866 which Johnson vetoed again. Congress then overrode this.

Question 28

What did Johnson do to the civil rights act proposed in march 1866?

Answer 28

He vetoed it.

Question 29

In April 1866, what did the alliance between moderate and radical republicans push congress to do ?

Answer 29

Adopt the 14th amendment into the constitution to secure the civil rights act.

Question 30

What is one reason why Johnson denounced the adoption of the 14th amendment into the constitution?

Answer 30

The 3rd clause disqualified from office anybody who supported the confederacy, which effectively cancelled majority of the pardons issued by Johnson.

Question 31

What party did Johnson hope to form prior to the 1866 mid-term elections?

Answer 31

The national union party

Question 32

When was the reconstruction act passed and what did Johnson do?

Answer 32

February 1867, and Johnson vetoed, but congress overrode this once again.

Question 33

What steps were taken by the reconstruction act?

Answer 33

1. All measures to reintegrate southern states were declared void, meaning Tennessee was the only state to be recognised.
2. The other 10 ex-confederate states were under temporary military rule.

Question 34

Who was the leader of the radical republicans?

Answer 34

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 35

What did Thaddeus Stevens want to do?

Answer 35

Confiscate estates and redistribute land to freedmen.

Question 36

When was the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) formed and who was it made up of

Answer 36

December 1865 in Tennessee and was made up of confederate ex soldiers.

Question 37

Where were some of the major race riots in the summer of 1866?

Answer 37

Memphis, New Orleans and other southern cities

Question 38

What did the republicans do about Johnsons obstruction tactics in 1867?

Answer 38

They brought in laws to limit the power of the president (eg: issuing direct military orders) and passed the tenure of office act in march 1867.

Question 39

What were the events that led to Thaddeus Steven’s and the house of representatives starting the process of impeachment?

Answer 39

1. August 1867 Johnson suspended secretary of war Edwin Stanton.
2. February 1868 Johnson then tried to dismiss Stanton.

Question 40

How many weeks was Johnson on trial for?

Answer 40

7

Question 41

What was the 1868 election known as?

Answer 41

The reconstruction election.

Question 42

How did the republicans put themselves across in the 1868 election?

Answer 42

They mainly focused on the issues of voting rights for African Americans in the south, and presented themselves as the party of patriotism and principle referring to their candidate Ulysses S Grant who was ‘the man who won the war.’

Question 43

How did the democrats put themselves across in the 1869 election?

Answer 43

Presenting reconstruction as revolutionary and unconstitutional and relied on the emotive legacy of the civil war. They chose Horatio Seymour over Andrew Johnson.