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What is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land?

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Sharecropping

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What is an increase or revival after a period of little activity, popularity, or occurrence?

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Resurgence

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What is a person who takes it upon himself or herself to punish others?

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Vigilante

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What is to exclude a group of people purposefully?

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Disenfranchise

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What is an exam given as a requiste for voting, Literacy tests were given to discourage blacks from voting?

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Literacy Test

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What is a fee people had to pay in order to vote. This practice was meant to discourage black form voting?

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Poll Tax

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What is a law stating you could not vote unless your grandfather voted before 1864.This practice was used to discourage blacks from voting?

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Grandfather Clause

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What is the period after the Civil War when the south was re-built; also the Federal program to rebuild it.

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Reconstruction

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What is a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War seeking political or economic advantage?

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Carpetbagger

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What is a white person in the South who worked with the federal government during he Reconstruction period after the Civil War?

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Scalawag

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What is the law imposed by military forces when the regular civil authority has broken down?

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Martial Law

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What is a period of time characterized by wealth but not moral substance?

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Gilded Age

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What is a very wealthy person?

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Tycoon

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What is the state of wandering with no permanent place to live?

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Vagrancy

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How did many Congressmen feel about Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?

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Many Congressmen felt that Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan was too weak.

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What plan did the Congressmen propose as an alternative? Give the details of this plan.

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Congressmen proposed the Wade-Davis Bill as an alternative. The Wade-Davis Bill said that Confederate states could come back into the Union if 50% or more of the people in that state took an oath saying that they never supported the Confederacy.

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What were the details of Lincoln’s plan?

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Lincoln’s plan said that Confederate states could come back into the Union if 10% or more of the people in the state took an oath of allegiance and said that they agreed with emancipation. Also, in Lincoln’s plan the new state government had to ratify the 13th amendment.

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What were the details of Johnson’s plan?

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Johnson’s plan said that Confederate states could come back into the Union if 50% or more of the people in the state took an oath of loyalty to the Union. Also, in order to vote you had to agree that it was illegal and wrong that the South seceded from the Union. The state also had to ratify the 13th amendment. Lastly, states could not pay back families/people that had loaned them money to help the South in the war.

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What Reconstruction Plan was actually used?

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Congess’s Plan was used

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Whose Reconstruction plan was the harshest on the South?

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Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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Whose Reconstruction plan was the easiest on the South?

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Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan

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Whose Reconstruction plan was in the middle based on harshness to the South?

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Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

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What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? Who established it?

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The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to help newly freed African American’s. The Freedmen’s Bureau helped African Americans to get jobs and education. The government established the Freedmen’s Bureau.

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Who was the first president to be impeached?

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Andrew Johnson

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Was Andrew Johnson removed from Johnson? If not, why not?

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No; He was not removed because he “saved” himself because he told everyone that he would enforce the Reconstruction Acts and would not give speeches that would demean Congress. He also appointed a new Secretary of War that was liked by Republicans.

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What president took over for Andrew Johnson?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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What were Black Codes?

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Black Codes were very much like slavery because they were laws that limited the rights of African Americans. Black Codes made it so African Americans could not vote, own guns, and serve on juries. In some states Black Codes made African Americans only be servants or farm laborers. Black Codes basically was a way that white people sneakily took away all of the rights that African Americans had just gotten by being freed from slavery.

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What purchase did Andrew Johnson make?

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The Alaskan Purchase. He purchased Alaska from Russia

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Where was Andrew Johnson born?

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He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Was Andrew Johnson an abolitionsit or not?

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Andrew Johnson believed in slavery.

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Was Andrew Johnson a Republican or Democrat?

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He was a Democrat.

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What was the last straw that led to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?

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Andrew Johnson broke the Tenure of Office Act of 1867. This act made it so that the president couldn’t get rid of important government officials without asking the Senate first. Johnson defied this act because he really wanted to get rid of The Secretary of War because he was a Radical Republican. Johnson got rid of The Secretary of War and replaced him with Ulysses S. Grant on August 12. This mad Congress very mad with Johnson.

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What was the 13th amendment?

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The 13th amendment abolished slavery.

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Where was Andrew Carnegie from?

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He was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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What did Andrew Carnegie become rich on?

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Steel

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Where was John Rockefeller from?

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New York

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What did John Rockefeller become rich on?

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Oil

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Where was Cornelius Vanderbilt from?

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New York

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What did Cornelius Vanderbilt become rich on?

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Railroad and Steam engines

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Who came up with the Gilded Age term?

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Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain

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