Chapter 16

Question 1

deep compassion for the enemy guided his thinking about peace

Answer 1

second inaugural

Question 2

lincoln proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction

Answer 2

1.Full pardons for rebels willing to renounce secession and accept the abolition of slavery.
2.voter take oaths of allegiances to the U.S.
3. then will be able to form government

Question 3

congress countered with the wade davis bill

Answer 3

1.50% voters must take oaths of allegiance
2. prohibited ex confederates from participating in drafting state constitutions
3.guarantee the equality of”freedmen” befores the law (no social or political rights)

Question 4

Lincolns last public address he endorses

Answer 4

suffrage for blacks

Question 5

wartime reconstruction failed to produce an agreement about whether

Answer 5

-the president or congress had authority to devise and direct post war policy
-presidential reconstruction versus congressional reconstruction

Question 6

Andrew Johnson

Answer 6

Southerner, Democrat, Racist

Question 7

The south has but 2 goals at the start of reconstruction

Answer 7

-Maintain white supremacy
-reestablish home rule

Question 8

Black codes

Answer 8

-keep blacks subordinate to whites
-limit them to farm and domestic work

Question 9

14th amendment

Answer 9

-Defines citizenship
-ensured privileges, immunities and due process
-equal protection under law
-the amendment prohibited states from abridging these 3 rights

Question 10

Voting rights, this a win win situation for the republicans

Answer 10

-Blacks vote republican
-Lessen southern Democratic Representation

Question 11

14th amendment, state

Answer 11

tennessee

Question 12

The military reconstruction Act of 1866, draw up new state constitutions guaranteed

Answer 12

black suffrage

Question 13

Impeaching the president

Answer 13

Tenure of office Act 1867

Question 14

Tenure of office Act 1867

Answer 14

The power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by a past president without the advice and consent of the senate” unless the senate approved the removal

Question 15

The 15th amendment

Answer 15

right to vote to all males

Question 16

northerners

Answer 16

carpetbaggers

Question 17

southerners

Answer 17

scalawags

Question 18

a group that would terrorize blacks and republicans

Answer 18

klu Klux klan

Question 19

grant elected w/tremendous fanfare in 1868, hoped for sectional reconciliation

Answer 19

and just for blacks

Question 20

Plagued grant’s presidency

Answer 20

corruption

Question 21

Federal troops not state militias, enforced the law and kkk were prosecuted in federal court where juries were often predominantly black

Answer 21

Ku Klux Klan Act of 1811

Question 22

what was suspended in nine counties in south carolina

Answer 22

habeas corpus

Question 23

Civil rights act of 1875, 1883 the supreme court deemed the act unconstitutional

Answer 23

congress had no power to regulate the conduct of individuals

Question 24

republican state governments by the 1786 only

Answer 24

Florida ,South carolina, and Louisiana

Question 25

Election of 1876

Answer 25

Rutherford Hayes

Question 26

The compromise of 1877 Democrats get

Answer 26

1)Promised withdrawal of federal troops from remaining 3 southern states
2)Substantial federal subsidies for internal improvements
3)Democratic Postmaster General