chapter 15 term Flashcards
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
ten percent plan
Congress’s plan to require 50 percent of a state’s white males to take an oath of allegiance tothe Union before being re-admitted
wade Davis plan
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th amendment
Amendment that granted citizenship to blacks
14th amendment
act that divided the South into military districts until states wrote new constitutionsapproved by Congress
reconstruction act of 1867
Act that required the president to get Senate approval to remove certain officials from office
ten year of office act’
amendment that said states could not deny the right to vote based on race
15th amendment
Act that pardoned most Confederate leaders, allowing them to hold officeWar
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The labor force was severely disrupted by the slaves being freed, cities, farms, and businesses had been destroyed, state governments needed to be reestablished, and the South’s paper money was worthless were alltrue about the situation in the _____________after the Civil War
south
The period during which Presidents Lincoln and Johnson directed Reconstruction was known as _____ Reconstruction.
presidental reconstruction
Most former Confederates would be pardoned if they swore to support theConstitution, a state could reestablish a civilian government as soon as ten percent of thosewho had voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Union, a military governor would be appointed in each captured state until it could reestablish a civilian government were all part of _________________ plan for Reconstruction.
lincoln’s plan for reconstruction
They did not think former Confederates should be allowed to hold office,they worried the South would gain more representatives since former slaves would now be counted as full persons, they worried that Northern and Southern Democrats would unite and gain control of the federal government, and they wanted more to be done to secure political and civil rights for African Americanswere reasons ___________opposed Lincoln’s plan forReconstruction
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radical republican
_________________plan for Reconstruction included wealthy former Confederates would have to appeal to him directly for a pardon, unpardoned Southerners could not vote or hold office, and states would be re-admitted once they wrote new constitutions and ratified the 13th Amendment
President johnson’s plan
In 1867 Congressional Reconstruction became _____ Reconstruction when those who wanted to make it more difficult for Southern states to reenter the Union were firmly in control.
radical reconstruction
It divided the South into five military districts, it required states to ratify the 14th Amendment, and it required states to guarantee adult black males the right to votetrue about the
reconstruction act of 1867
He defended the political rights of African Americans, he signed legislation to combat the Ku Klux Klan, he took steps to improve treatment of Native Americans and he improved tax collection were all successes of _______________presidency
grant’s presidency
Northerners became more concerned about other issues such as economic prosperity and less concerned about the plight of African Americans, the Amnesty Act of 1872 pardoned most former Confederate leaders, restoring theirability to vote and hold office, which resulted in white Southerners regaining controlof state governments, and when federal troops were withdrawn from the South there was no one to enforce the Civil Rights Act and protect blacks from the Ku Klux Klan were true about the end of
reconstruction
They farmed small plots of land owned by the planter and paid a portion of the crop as rent for the land, they typically had to borrow money for seed and provisions at the beginning of each planting season, and they rarely showed a profit and were often in a cycle of debt and poverty which was hard to break out of was true about
sharecroppers
. Grant citizenship and equal protection of state laws to African Americans, count all African Americans rather than three-fifths of them, to determine a state’srepresentation in Congress, exclude those who had broken their oath to support the Constitution (by supportingthe Confederacy) from holding government office unless pardoned by Congress were all part of.
14th amendment
. The period from the end of the Civil War to 1877 was called
reconstruction
Former slaves were called
freedman
The opponents in Congress to Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction were called
radical Republicans
A general pardon for a large group of people is
amnesty
Very restrictive state laws that placed African Americans in an inferior position were called
black codes
The secretary of state who negotiated a treaty to purchase Alaska was
Williams Seward
The agency established to assist former slaves was the
freedman’s burrow
Those from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called
carpetbaggers
. A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction was called a
scalawags
The House of Representatives’ power to bring charges against the president is called
impeachment
The former Civil War general who won the presidential election of 1868 for the Republicans was.
grant
Southerners who wanted to “save” the South and its culture by overthrowing blacks and otherRepublicans who held offices were calledRedeemers
redeemers
A secret organization formed by former Confederate soldiers and determined to keep African Americans under control by using intimidation and violence was the
kkk klan
. Towns built by factory owners were called
miltowns
