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What was Lincoln’s 10% plan?

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Offered restoration to any Southern state when 10% of the registered voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union

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Who was the President after the Civil War?

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Andrew Johnson

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What was the Wade Davis Bill?

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Required a majority of white males in a seceded state take a loyalty oath before a new state government could be organized; also demanded several provisions for the State’s Constitution

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What was Johnson’s Plan?

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Readmission based on Lincoln’s plan but stricter policy on qualifications for Southern leadership and pardons. Believed that responsibiblity for Reconstruction belonged the the President NOT Congress

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How did Congress react to Johnson’s Plan for reconstruction?

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Congress rejected Johnson’s plan; Johnson went on a speaking tour to defend his plan

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What was the Tenure of Office Act?

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Prevented President from dismissing any civil officers which ahd been apointed with consent of the Senate unless he obtained the Senate’s approval

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How was Johnson impeached?

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House brings charges abainst Pres. Johnson; he is tried by the Senate. One vote short of 2/3rds needed to remove him from office

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What was the 13th amendment?

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Permanently abolishes slavery

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What was the 14th amendment?

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Extends citizenship to all former slaves

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What was the 15th amendment?

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Forbids states from denying voting privileges to anyone

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What were the Reconstruction Acts?

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Divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts and gave military officers broad powres in each district (Tennessee excluded, already re-admitted to the Union)

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What was established to provide food and clothing to freed slaves?

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Freedman’s Bureau

freedman- a term for liberated slaves

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What were black codes?

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Attempts to regulate the conduct of former slaves

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What were carpetbaggers?

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Northern politicians who went South after the war to take advantage of political opportunity

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What were scalawags?

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Whites in the South who cooperated with the carpetbaggers to advance their interests

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What is the Ku Klux Klan?

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Secret society that used illegal methods in an attempt to improve the situation in the South

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What was sharecropping?

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System of farming in which a plantation owner divided his land into small plots worked by former slaves and their families

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What was a Redeemer?

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Southerner who wanted to restore white majority rule

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Who won the 1868 election?

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Ulysses Grant, Civil War Hero

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What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?

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Criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

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What did James Fisk and Jay Gould scandal involve?

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Manipulating the price of gold

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What was the William Belknap scandal?

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He took bribes in return for special licenses to sell goods to the Indians

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What was the Whiskey Ring scandal?

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Conspired to cheat government out of excise taxes

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Who was involved in the Tammany Hall scandal; defrauded New York City?

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William “Boss” Tweed; stayed in business by helping Democrats with votes

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What cartoonist attacked William “Boss” Tweed, leading to his arrest?

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Thoms Nast (cartoonist who advocated reform)

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How did Grant win his second election?

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The nation’s prosperity

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What economic collapse was seen in Grant’s second term?

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Panic of 1873-1876

Also, Greenback Issue (dollars were not backed by government)

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Who was the election of 1876 between?

Who won?

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Tilden vs. Hayes

Hayes won

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What does “Waving the Bloody Shirt” mean?

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Blamed the Democrats for the Civil War; used to distract voters

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What was the Compromise of 1877?

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Provided for the removal of all federal troops from Southern States

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The South voted Democratic for the next 100 years, earning its nickname…

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the Solid South

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What has continued expanding ever since the Civil War?

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The Federal government’s power

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