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For what alleged reason was Andrew Johnson impeached?

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He dismissed a radical secretary of war

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Which president generally supported Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction?

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Andrew Jackson

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List the provisions of the military Reconstruction Act.

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  1. The south was divided in 5 military districts
  2. Each state had to pass the 14th amendments
  3. Write a new constitution granting universal male suffrage regarding race.
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List the positive contributions of Radical government in the South?

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  1. Caused the disfranchisement of southern whites
  2. Organized public school systems
  3. Rebuilt transportation
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After the war what did Robert E. lee do?

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Became president of Washington college

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Why did sharecropping become common in the south during the Reconstruction??

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The south couldn’t supply sufficient funds to pay wages

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What was the most severe depression in the first 100 years of America’s history?

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Panic of 73

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What extremist group opposed Radical Reconstruction and sought to prevent blacks from voting during reconstruction?

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Klu klux Klan

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True or False: President Johnson was not removed from the office because Congress was 1 vote short of the 2/3 majority.

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True

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Which scandal involved a groups criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction?

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Credit Mobilier Scandal

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True or False:The Republicans heavy handed effort to control the South created a powerful block of voters who would support and agree with them for almost a century.

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False; their heavy handed way to opposing the South caused others to disagree with them

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True or False:The radicals agreed with Lincoln concerning the percentage of Southern white males who should take the oath of allegiance before a state was the readmitted to the Union.

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False; they didn’t agree with Lincoln

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True or False:The hardships of Reconstruction forced the South to produce staples, such as wheat and rice, rather than cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco.

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False; they needed cash crops

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Who were northern radicals who moved to the South?

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Carpetbaggers

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What is the denial of the right to vote?

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Disfranchisement

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Who were Southerners who supported radicals and were friends with carpetbaggers?

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Scalawags

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What was the method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash?

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Sharecropping

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True or False: The radicals didn’t agree with Lincoln concerning the percentage of Southern white males who should take the oath of allegiance before a state was readmitted to the Union.

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True

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What is political corruption?

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Grantism

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What is paper money that wasn’t backed by gold or silver?

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Greenbacks

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What does it mean to not be backed by gold or silver?

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If the government folded papermoney would be worthless

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What is Indictment of a political official by Congress?

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Impeachment

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Who were Northern Republicans who opposed the radicals in 1872?

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Liberal Republican

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Who enacted universal manhood suffrage; organized public school systems and rebuilt roads?

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Radical governments in the South

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True or False:Early in Reconstruction Radical Republicans gained control of state governments in the South by accepting the votes of anyone even the former Confederates.

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False; the didn’t want the Confederates to vote or the southern majority to win

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True or False: The Republicans heavy handed effort to control the South caused others to opposed to disagree with them.

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True

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Who were Southerns who wanted to restore white majority rule?

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Redeemers

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What was passed by president Johnson’s Reconstruction States immediately after the war; attempt to regulate the conduct of former slaves?

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Black Codes

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What:

  • caused division of the South into 5 military districts
  • imposed military occupation on the South
  • required each state to write a new constitution providing for universal male suffrage regardless of race and to pass the 14th amendment
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Military Reconstruction Act

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What was Lincoln’s attempt to reestablish civilian government in the South by appointing military governors for each state?

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Ten percent plan

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Infamous support of the Democratic Party in the former confederacy?

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“The Solid South”

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What required 50% of voted of a southern states, had to take a loyalty oath! and permitted by only non-Confederates to vote for a new state constitution.

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Wade-Davis Bill

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What eliminated the last trace of slavery in the border states and climates the work of abolition begun by the Emancipation proclamation?

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13th amendment

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What granted freed men full citizenship in both the US and the states in which they lived, prohibited all former confederate leaders from holding any office unless first approved by a 2/3 majority of the House and Senate, guarantee the rights of all citizens?

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14th amendment

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What gave black males the same voting rights?

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15th amendments

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National governments attempting to rebuilding the South following the civil war?

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Reconstruction

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What protected cabinet members form being fired?

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Tenure of office act

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Government designed to help freed slaves.

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Freedman’s Bureau

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What was the agreement to remove federal troops from the South?

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Compromise of 1877

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In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate?

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manipulating the price of gold

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Why was Tammanu Hall allowed to continuer it’s corruption?

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Democratic leaders needed it’s help for votes

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What is meant by “waving the bloody shirt”?

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The democrats are to blame for the civil war

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What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in electing Rutherford B. Haynes as president?

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Removal of federal troops from the South

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