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Civil War Questions - Day 4 Flashcards

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1
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What agency was established by Congress in March 1865, to attempt to establish a working free labor system?

A

Freedmens Bureau

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What was the Freedmen’s Bureau supposed to do?

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Helped former slaves transition to lives as citizens

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3
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What was sharecropping?

A

Tenant farming system former slaves were forced into

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4
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Who was President Lincoln’s successor?

A

Andrew Johnson

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Who did Johnson believe had no role to play in Reconstruction?

A

Congress

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What is something the black codes denied blacks the opportunity to do?

A

Be unemployed or be out after dark

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7
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Who were the two most prominent Radical Republicans in Congress?

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Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner

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What two choices did the Fourteenth Amendment offer leaders in the South?

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Rafity the 14th Amendment or military reconstruction would continue

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What is one proposed bill that Johnson vetoed in 1866?

A

Civil Rights Act of 1866

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What was the only former Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment?

A

Tennessee

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After impeachment, how many votes short of convicting Johnson were Republicans in the Senate?

A

One vote

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What did the Reconstruction Act do?

A

Gave military control over the south to enforce reconstructing it

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12
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In 1868, who did the Republicans nominate for President?

A

Ulysses S. Grant

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13
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All former Confederate states were readmitted by what year?

A

1870

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13
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What southern state had the highest black percentage of its population?

A

South Carolina

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What did the Fifteenth Amendment provide?

A

Black men sufferage

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14
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Who was the first black senator in American History?

A

Hiram Revels

15
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What notable thing did Hiram Revels do during Reconstruction?

A

Elected to Congress/Senate

15
Q

What is the name for those who went to the South to real the spoils of office?

A

Carpetbaggers

16
Q

What is the derogatory nickname for southern traitors to their region?

A

Scalawags

17
Q

Where was Tweed’s Ring?

A

New York City

18
Q

What party controlled Tweed’s Ring?

A

Democratic Party

18
Q

What year was the KKK founded?

A

1865

19
Q

Where was the bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction?

A

Colfax Riot

20
Q

What did Congress enact in 1870-71 to outlaw terrorist societies in the South?

A

Enforcement Acts

20
Q

What president dispatched federal troops to put down the KKK?

A

Ulysses S. Grant

21
Q

What act outlawed public discrimination?

A

Civil Rights Act of 1875

22
Q

What case gutted the Enforcement Acts?

A

United States vs. Cruikshank

23
Q

What case ruled that the 14th Amendment didn’t alter federalism?

A

Slaughterhouse cases

24
Q

What was the name of the victorious Democrats in the South?

A

Redeemers

25
Q

Who won the 1876 presidential election?

A

Rutherford B. Hayes

26
Q

What was the ruling in Texas v. White?

A

State secession was impossible

26
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Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1876?

A

Rutherford B. Hayes

27
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What two things happened as part of the Compromise of 1877?

A

Rutherford B. Hayes won the disputed election, removed troops from the south

28
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What year was the Freedmen’s Bureau created?

A

1865

29
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What year did Andrew Johnson become president?

A

1865

30
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When was Johnson impeached? (year)

A

1868

31
Q

When was Lincoln assassinated? (Date)

A

April 14th or 15th, 1865

32
Q

What did the Pacific Railway Act do?

A

Transcontinental Railroad

33
Q

What supposed advantage of the Confederacy before the Civil War failed it?

A

King Cotton

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