Chapter Sixteen

Question 1

Deep compassion for the enemy guided his thinking about peace

Answer 1

Second Inaugural Address

Question 2

Andrew Johnson

Answer 2

Southerner
Democrat
Racist

Question 3

The south had but two goals at the start of reconstruction

Answer 3

Maintain white supremacy
Reestablish home rule

Question 4

Black codes

Answer 4

Keep blacks subordinate to whites
Limit them to farm and domestic work

Question 5

14th Amendment

Answer 5

Defined citizenship
Ensured privileges and immunities
Due process
Equal protection under law
The amendment prohibited states from abridging these 3 rights

Question 6

Voting Rights
This is a win win situation for the republicans

Answer 6

Blacks vote republican
Lessen southern democratic representation

Question 7

14th Amendment
Who ratified

Answer 7

Tennessee

Question 8

The 15th Amendment

Answer 8

Right to vote all males

Question 9

Northerners

Answer 9

Carpetbaggers

Question 10

Southerners

Answer 10

Scalawags

Question 11

Grant elected with tremendous fanfare in 1868
sectional reconciliation

Answer 11

And justice for blacks

Question 12

Plagued Grants presidency

Answer 12

Corruption

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Ku Klux Klan act of 1871

Question 14

This was suspended in nine counties in South Carolina

Answer 14

Habeas Corpus

Question 15

Civil Rights Act of 1875
1883 the Supreme Court deemed the act unconstitutional

Answer 15

Congress had no power to regulate the conduct of individuals

Question 16

wartime reconstruction failed to produce an agreement on what?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

list the three provisions within lincoln’s proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction

Answer 17

• full pardons for rebels willing to announce secession and accep the abolition of slavery
• voters must take oaths of allegiance to the U.S. (10%)
-will then be able to form government

Question 18

congress countered lincoln’s proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction with the wade davis bill. list the wade davis bills three provisions

Answer 18

1. 50% of voters must take oath of allegiance
2. prohibited ex confederates from participating in drafting state constitutions
3. guarantee the equality of “freedmen” before the law (no social or political rights)

Question 19

andrew johnson was impeached for violating the tenure of office act of 1867. explain the tenure of office act of 1867. what did it deny the president?

Answer 19

tenure of office act of 1867 - 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 20

Military Reconstruction Act of 1866 draw up new state constitutions guaranteeing

Answer 20

Black suffrage

Question 21

Republican state governments by 1876 only these states remained republican

Answer 21

Florida
South Carolina
Louisiana

Question 22

Election of 1876

Answer 22

Rutherford Hayes

Question 23

The compromise of 1877
Democrats get

Answer 23

Promised withdraw of federal troops from remaining 3 south states
Substantial federal subsidies for internal improvements
Democratic post master general