Chapter 15 pt.1

Question 1

Ten Percent Plan vs. Wade- Davis Bill

Answer 1

• Ten Percent Plan made by Lincoln during the Civil War, but never happened. Plan was to forgive the to confederate traders and allowing each rebellious state to return to the Union after 10% of them gave loyalty oath and the 13th amendment was approved.
• Wade-Davis required an oath of allegiance by majority of each state’s white adult men.

Question 2

Andrew Johnson

Answer 2

common man from Tennessee and built his political career off of support from farmers and laborers. Became Tennessee’s military governor by Lincoln.

Question 3

Black Codes

Answer 3

plan to force former slaves back onto plantations made by new Southern state legislature after Johnson’s limited Reconstruction plan.

Question 4

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 4

Congress established it to ad displaced blacks and war refugees. Congress soon voted to extend this plan and gave it direct funding.

Question 5

Civil Rights Act 1866

Answer 5

declared formerly enslaved people to be citizens and granted the equal rights or contract with full access to the courts.

Question 6

14th Amendment

Answer 6

“all people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens”

Question 7

Radical Republican

Answer 7

they wanted to transform the south for the better after the 14th amendment

Question 8

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 8

divided the conquered South into five military districts, each under the command of a U.S. general.

Question 9

Impeachment of Johnson

Answer 9

Johnson kept suspending people and seemed like he didn’t know what he wanted so the legislatures in the House of Representatives introduced articles of impeachment against the president.

Question 10

15th Amendment

Answer 10

prohibited the state government from denying someone the right o vote based on their race, colors, etc.

Question 11

Sharecropping

Answer 11

labor system where landowners and land workers divided the share of crops harvested.