chapter 10 review Flashcards
Lincoln’s reconstruction plan: had to do what?
Take an oath of loyalty and accept the slaves are free
President Johnson believed who started Civil War
rich planter elite
Under Republican reconstruction plan, Confederate states had to ratify what?
13th amendment
How did Johnson challenge the Tenure of Office Act?
Fired secretary of war stanton
Why did some people not want to remove Johnson from office?
Dangerous precedent of impeaching a president because he did not agree to congressional policies
scalawags
Small farmers who did not want wealthy planters to regain power
goals of the kkk
Drive out union troops and regain the south for the democratic party
Why did Democrats think sin taxes favored the rich?
Rich owned bounds and poor paid taxes
when did reconstruction end
Hayes pulled federal troops from South
Lincoln’splanforReconstruction
Reconcile with south, not punish them
GoalsoftheRadicalRepublicans
African americans can vote, prevent confederate leaders from coming
back to power, and republican party strong in the south
Why did Congress reject representatives that southern voters elected to congress under Johnson
former confederate leaders
How could Johnson interfere with Reconstruction
refuse to enforce the law
What was the main charge at Johnson’s impeachment trial
Broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act
How did Grant win several southern states in the 1868 election
Federal troops help African Americans
vote
carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved South to take advantage of the region
What was the role of the president according to grant?
carry out law
who nominated horace greeley as president
liberal republicans
why was there no clear winner in the 1876 election
voter fraud
military reconstruction act
divided the south into five military districts
enforcement acts
authority to arrest KKK members and intended to combat violence in the south
black codes
meant to keep african americans in conditions similar to slavery
15th amendment
right to vote could not be denied on account of race, color, or previous servitude
tenure of office act
led to the impeachment of andrew johnson. passed to prevent johnson from firing stanton
civil rights act of 1866
allowed african americans to own property
14th amendment
equal protection of the law and the state cannot deny life, liberty, or property without due process
william sherman
reserve all plantation for freedman to use during the war
rutherford b hayes
ended reconstruction
thaddeus stevens
radical republican leader who wanted to revolutionize southern institutions, habits, and manners
andrew johnson
posted thousands of southerners while congress was not in session
edwin stanton
johnson’s secretary of war
horace greeley
nominated for president in 1872 by liberal republicans
ulysses s grant
civil war reputation carried him into the whitehousr
lincoln
vetoed the wade davis bill
william belknap
grants secretary of war who accepted bribes
samuel tilden
lost the presidential election in the compromise of 1877
