exam 1 - unit 1 - chapter 16

Question 1

What kind of plan did lincoln want when reunifying the nation?

Answer 1

A quick, lenient, and simple plan.

Question 2

What year did lincoln die?

Answer 2

1865

Question 3

Who became pres after lincoln died

Answer 3

andrew johnson

Question 4

how did johnson seek to reconstitute the union quickly?

Answer 4

pardoning southerners in masse and providing southern states with a clear path back to readmission

Question 5

non

Answer 5

non

Question 5

who were radical republicans

Answer 5

members of congress that wanted to remake the south and punish the rebels

Question 5

Who shot president lincoln

Answer 5

john wilkes booth on april 14, 1865

Question 5

where was lincoln shot

Answer 5

ford’s theater in washington

Question 6

what was lincoln watching when he was shot

Answer 6

our american cousin

Question 7

what was booth’s reasoning behind the assassination of lincoln

Answer 7

he was defending the confederacy and white supremacy

Question 7

what was the plan of the larger conspiracy booth was a part of

Answer 7

to eliminate the heads of the union gov and keep the confederate fight going

Question 8

while president johnson concluded that all that needed to be done in the south had been done by early 1866, what did congress do

Answer 8

congress didn’t agree with johnson and forged ahead to stabilize the defeated confederacy and extend to freed people citizenship and equality before the law.

Question 9

what happened when congress prevailed over johnson’s vetoes

Answer 9

the friction between the president and republicans increased

Question 10

what was the freedmen’s bureau

Answer 10

it engaged in many initiatives to ease the transition from slavery to freedom

Question 11

what were some of the things the freedmen’s bureau did

Answer 11

delivered food to blacks and whites in the south, helped freed people gain labor contracts, reunite families of freedmen, devoted energy to education

Question 12

what was a significant step in the creation of wage labor in place of slavery

Answer 12

freed people gaining labor contracts

Question 13

what did devoting energy to education do

Answer 13

established scores of public schools where freed people and poor whites could receive both elementary and higher education

Question 14

what were black codes meant to do

Answer 14

they were designed to maintain the social and economic structure of racial slavery in the absence of slavery (like a new form of slavery)

Question 15

black codes codified white supremacy by restricting the civic participation of freed slaves. what did the codes deprive them of?

Answer 15

the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, the right to own or carry weapons, and in some cases the right to rent or lease land

Question 16

who was the 14th amendment created for

Answer 16

slaves

Question 17

what does the 14th amendment say

Answer 17

“all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside”

Question 18

what did the 14th amendment do

Answer 18

it gave citizens equal protection under both the state and federal law, overturning the dred scott decision

Question 19

through the use of military force and martial law, what were republicans in congress doing

Answer 19

implementing their own plan of bringing law and order to the south

Question 20

radical republicans who wanted a more equal society pushed their programs forward which led to….

Answer 20

the ratification of the 15th amendment.

Question 21

what did the 15th amendment do

Answer 21

gave blacks the right to vote

Question 22

the new amendment empowered black voters to what

Answer 22

vote to elect black politicians

Question 23

what did the 1867 military reconstruction act do

Answer 23

divided the ten southern states that had yet to ratify the 14th amendment into five military districts

Question 24

what state was excluded from the 1867 act

Answer 24

tennessee because it had already been readmitted to the union by the time

Question 25

what was enforced on states because of the 1867 act

Answer 25

martial law was imposed and a union general commanded each district.

Question 26

what were the jobs of the generals and twenty thousand federal troops stationed in the districts

Answer 26

protecting the freed people

Question 27

how many counts did the house bring against johnson

Answer 27

11, all alleging his encroachment on the powers of congress

Question 28

what was the vote on impeachment in the senate

Answer 28

7 republicans joined the democrats and independents to support the acquittal; the final vote was 35-19, one vote short of the required two-thirds majority

Question 29

what did johnson do after the failed impeachment

Answer 29

he quiets after the vote, does not run for re-election

Question 30

what did the 15th amendment say

Answer 30

“the right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude(slavery)”

Question 31

what was unfortunate about the 15th amendment

Answer 31

it had a weakness of its own

Question 32

as part of a compromise to ensure the passage of the amendment with the broadest possible support, drafters of the amendment specifically excluded what

Answer 32

language that addressed literacy tests and poll taxes, the most common ways blacks were traditionally disenfranchised in both the north and the south

Question 33

the political activities of the leagues launched a great many _______ into politics throughout the south

Answer 33

african americans and former slaves

Question 34

in the 1870s, how many member of the house of representatives and senators were black

Answer 34

15 members of the house and 2 senators

Question 35

who were the two black senators

Answer 35

blanche k. bruce and hiram revels, both from mississippi

Question 36

why did the efforts launched by radical republicans in the late 1860s generate a massive backlash in the south in the 1870s

Answer 36

whites fought against what they considered negro misrule

Question 37

under the system, freed people did what

Answer 37

rented the land they worked, often on the same plantations where they had been slaves

Question 38

only blacks became share croppers t/f

Answer 38

f

Question 39

what was sharecropping

Answer 39

sharecroppers would pay their landlords with the crops they grew, often as much as half their harvest.

Question 40

who did sharecropping favor

Answer 40

the landlords

Question 41

what ensured that freed people could not attain independent livelihoods

Answer 41

the year to year leases. sharecroppers often became trapped in a never ending cycle of debt, unable to buy their own land and unable to stop working for their creditor bc of what they owed

Question 42

the consequences of sharecropping affected the entire south for generating t/f

Answer 42

t