Reconstruction And Native America Flashcards

1
Q

1868 Johnson does what that gets him impeached

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Fires the secretary of war without senate approval

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2
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Does the senate find Johnson guilty during his impeachment trial

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No

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3
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1868 who is elected president

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U.S. Grant

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4
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What year is grant re-elected

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1872

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5
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What does the Force act do?

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Passed by U.S. Grant, force act forces voting under federal control, troops sent to south to get control of votes on a local level

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6
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U.S. Grant dies of throat cancer in

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1885

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7
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Who encourages US Grant to write a biography to finance his family after his impending death

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Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain: author of Huck Fin

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8
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Who were the candidates of the election of 1876

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Samuel Tilden- Democrat

Rutherford Hayes- Republican

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9
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What were the 3 states that challenged the votes in the election of 1876

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South Carolina

Louisiana

Florida

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10
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Who originally wins the election of 1876 and who wins after vote recount

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Tilden originally wins

Rutherford Hayes takes office

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11
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What was the Compromise of 1877

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Hayes tells the south that he will end reconstruction( 12 years after the end of the war)

This is why: Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina flip and “ recount votes”

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12
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When does reconstruction end and by the hand of who

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Spring of 1877

Rutherford Hayes

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13
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Three voting restrictions that take political power from blacks

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1) poll tax
2) literacy test
3) grandfather clause ( grandfather couldn’t vote: neither can you)

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14
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Which Supreme Court case begins SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

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Plessy vs. Fergusson

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Plessy vs. Ferguson what happined

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Homer Plessy buys ticket for train, he buys it for a certain and when asked to move he refuses, and is thrown off the train

Loses Supreme Court case- begins separate but equal

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16
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Who started the Tuskegee institute

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Booker T Washington

17
Q

What was Booker Washington’s view about black education

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Education in the arts is a waste of time, blacks need to be educated to get jobs and function within society

18
Q

What was Washintons most famous speech

A

the Atlanta Compromise

19
Q

What did Booker t Washington say in his Atlanta compromise

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Blacks execpt that they do not have equality and it will take time to get there.
Many view this as excepting separate but equal

20
Q

W.E.B. Dubois

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Born free man of color 1868, in the north. Harvard educated, becomes enemy of Booker T. ( views Booker as a sell out)

21
Q

W.E.B. Dubois most famous book

A

Souls of Black folk

22
Q

1909 NAACP

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National association for the advancement of colored people

23
Q

WEB Dubois believes in the talented 10%…

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10% of colored people will become leaders and break down the walls of prejudice and the 90% will fallow

24
Q

1867 tenure of office act

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Says if senate has to approve appointed officials being hired, it must also have to approve them being fired

25
Q

Post war “ war” is between —

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Johnson and the radical republicans