Chapter 17

Question 1

difficult time for the US when the executive branch resumed the task of building a strong, united nation

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Reconstruction Era

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the three-and-a-half million former slaves

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freedmen

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reconstruction of the Union hinged on

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important constitutional questions

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Lincoln’s proclamation stipulated that any in any state a number of voters equal to _____________ of those registered to vote in the 1860 and had taken the loyalty oath, could set up a new state government

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10 percent

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the Republicans in Congress had split into two groups,

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Radicals
Conservatives

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Republican group that might have cooperated with Lincoln’s 10 percent plan

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Conservatives

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Republican group that were completely opposed to Lincoln’s plan

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Radicals

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bill that would have given Congress, not the President, control of Reconstruction

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Wade-Davis Bill

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Lincoln took advantage of his constitutional right to kill the bill by not acting upon it before congress adjourned; this refusal to act is called

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pocket veto

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month and year of Lincoln’s assassination

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December 1865

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In his first annual message to Congress, President Johnson announced

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the Union was restored

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under the influence of ____________ and ________________ Congress maintained that the Confederate states had indeed seceded from the Union and that bringing them back into the Union was completely within the jurisdiction of Congress, not the President

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Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens

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laws in the South which put limitations on the civil rights of freedmen

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Black Codes

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established by an act of Congress in 1865 to provide food and clothing for freed slaves

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Freedmen’s Bureau

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proposed by Congress to guarantee the basic civil rights of freedmen

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Civil Rights Bill

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President Johnson ________________ both the Freedmen’s Bureau extension and the Civil Rights Bill

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vetoed

Freedmen’s Bureau (unnecessary)
Civil Rights Bill (unwise and unconstitutional)

Question 17

completed the process of emancipation that President Lincoln had begun with the Emancipation Proclamation

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13th Amendment

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gave citizenship to freedmen

became the first official definition of American citizenship

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14th Amendment

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made freedmen U.S. citizens and attempted to guarantee their rights of citizenship, including the right to vote

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14th Amendment

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guaranteed former slaves the right to vote

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15th Amendment

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passed by Congress in an attempt to make Southern states accept its terms for Reconstruction

divided former Confederacy into five military districts and gave military officers broad power in each district

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Reconstruction Act

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deprived certain high Confederate officials of political privileges

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14th Amendment

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last section the this amendment declared the Confederate debt void

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14th Amendment

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the showdown between Johnson and the Radicals focused on the __________________________________

prevented the President from dismissing any civil officers which had been appointed with the consent of the Senate, unless he first obtained the Senate’s approval

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Tenure Office Act of 1867

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dismissed by Johnson for cooperating with the Radicals against the President’s wishes

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Stanton

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because Johnson went against the Tenure Act and fired Stanton, the House of Representatives employed their constitutional power of

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impeachment

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first President to be impeached

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Johnson

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Johnson was _____________ on impeachment charges

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not convicted, but ruined his career

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won election of 1868

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Republican Ulysses S. Grant

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Grant served as President ______________

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2 terms

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Republican nominee for the election of 1876

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Rutherford Hayes

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in the end, the southern Dems decided to give the disputed electoral votes to Hayes under certain conditions, which collectively became known as the

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Compromise of 1877

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According to the Compromise of 1877, Hayes would be new President provided that

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1. all federal troops be removed from the South states
2. Hayes appoint at least one Southerner to Cabinet
3. federal money be given for economic development in the South

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ended Reconstruction in the South

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Compromise of 1877

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Northern politicians who went South after the war, carrying their belongings in a carpetbag, to take advantage of political opportunity

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carpetbaggers

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white Southerners who cooperated with carpetbaggers and freedmen to advance their own interests

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scalawags

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secret societies organized by Southern whites in an attempt to improve the poorly conducted government

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Ku Klux Klan
Knights of the White Camellia

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restored political rights to most of those who had cooperated with the Confederacy

considerably limited the political influence of freedmen

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Amnesty Act of 1872

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taxes that citizens had to pay before they could vote

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poll taxes

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used to prove one’s reading ability

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literacy test

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prevented many Southern blacks and poor, uneducated whites from voting

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poll taxes
literacy test

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term used to indicate that for many years the South voted solidly Democratic

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Solid South

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former slave who founded Tuskegee Institute

wrote about his life in autobiography Up From Slavery

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Booker T Washington

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the Methodist Episcopal church set up a number of schools in Southern states to educate former slaves through its

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Freedmen’s Aid Society

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the most influential spokesman for his race

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Booker T Washington