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| In Lincoln's plan, who should take charge of Reconstruction? |
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| In Lincoln's plan, how should Reconstruction be carried out? |
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| The South should be brought back into the Union quickly. |
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| How should Southern states be readmitted to the Union? |
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| When 10% or more of the voters in a state occupied by the Union army had taken an oath, they were authroized to form a loyal government that abolished slavery. Then the state could rejoin the Union. |
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| In the Radical Republican plan, who should take charge of Reconstruction? |
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| How should Reconstruction be carried out in the Radical Republican plan? |
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| In the Radical Republican plan, how should Southern states be readmitted to the Union? |
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| When enough states ratified the Amendment to make it part of the US Constitution, each state complying with the preceding steps could be readmitted to the Union. |
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| What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau? |
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| feed and care for both needy blacks and whites. help former slaves find jobs and protect them from discrimination. |
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| Name 2 schools founded by the Freedmen's Bureau. |
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| Howard University and Hampton Institute |
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| 2 famous Radical republicans during Reconstruction were |
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| Name 3 bills Johnson vetoed that Congress was able to override |
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Civil Rights Act of 1886 Freedmen's Bureau bill 14th Amendment |
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Tell what right each amendment gave and the date of ratification: 13, 14, 15 |
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13: freed the slaves, Dec. 865 14: 1868, All person's born or naturalized in the US are citizens of the US & of the state where in they reside 15: Feb. 1869, prohibited federal and state govt from denying the role to anyone of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude |
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| What was the name of the law passed by Congress to limit the power of Pres. Johnson? What did it do/say? What did Johnson do as a response to Congress' actions? |
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| The Tenure of Office Act prohibited the pres. from firing Cabinet officers and other high executive officials without Senate approval. He ordered Grant to replace Secretary of War (Stanton). Johnson then violated the Tenure of Office Act by appointing a new secretary of war, Thomas. |
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Former Conf. political leadrs were replaced by blax & wat 2 new groups of leadrs during Radical Reconstruction? Give the name and tell who made up each group. |
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Carpetbaggers- northerners who moved South after the war. Scalawags- Southerners who participated in Reconstruction |
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2 blak men that represented Mississippi in the Senate during reconstruction? |
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| Blacks were turned away from____ |
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| hotels, restaurants, or other public places that served white |
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| segregate public transportation |
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| wat group was formd 2 end reconstruction by using terorism and wat types of things did they do? |
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| Ku Klux klan used teror 2 shatter Reconstruction & try to restore wite supremacy by beating, farring and feathering, and even hanging. |
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| Name the law that COngress passed as a response to terrorism in the SOuth in 1870 and 1871 and tell wat it said |
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| Force acts- made it a federal crime to interfere with voting rights and they established ways for the govt to supervise elections |
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| Lincoln believed that the southern states had not seceded because |
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| no state could legally leave the Union |
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| Lincoln made a speech called ______________ and his plan 4 recunstruction was______________and ______________ |
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| Proclamation of Amnesty, b easy on South, regain her loyalty |
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| y was johnson unique and wat was a result of it? |
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| he was the only southern senator to remain loyal to the Union when his state seceded. chosen to b lincolns running mate in the 1864 re election. |
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| Johnson strongly believed wat |
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| the fed. system should b restored 2 way it had been b4 the war |
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| the only changes 2 make were |
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| make slavery illegal and say that no state could secede |
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| divided the South into 5 military districts. under army control |
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| Johnson angered Congress when he vetoed wat |
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| Impeachment trial of Johnson |
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| 11 charges brot against him on each charge found not guilty by 1 vote |
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| Who won election? Wat was the electoral vote? with which states? |
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| Tilden, 203-165, ny, nj, ct, in, and all southern states |
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What did the Republicans do and how did the democrats react? |
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changed electoral votes in 3 states they controlled so Hayes could win. Demos protested and a special commission was set up to decide the issue. |
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- Hayes would remove all fed. troops from the South
- would appoint a conservative Southerner to his Cabinet
- sympathized with a southern plan to build a railroad from TX to CA.
- S Demos promised not to prevent blacks from voting and exercising their rights.
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| What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877? |
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| Whites in the North turned their bax on the blax in the south and slowly the southern states broke their promises to treat them fairly |
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| How did the Compromise of 1877 affect blax? |
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- segregation increased in the North
- voting rights were taken away
- blax were treated badly in the courts and on their jobs
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| y were the newly elected leadrs called redeemers? |
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| Southerners believed these new leadrs had rescued the S from evils of Republican Rule |
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white supremacy economic progress |
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| name of booker t washintons speech and wat it said |
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| up from slavery stressed importance of patience training, and hard work. "no race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. its @ the botom of life we begin, and not @ the top" |
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| how did most wites and some blax feel about Washingtons speech? wat did educated blax feel, who was the main opponent of washingtons views? |
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| many whites and some blax welcomd the speech. While washington workd bhind the scenes to advance equality, other blak leadrs wanted 2 b more agressive. WEB DU BOIS was washingtons main opponent |
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| What laws passed in the South helped to create a segregated society? What was the name of the Supreme Court ruling that supported these laws and what did it say? Give the date. |
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| Jim Crow laws. btwn 1875& 1896 the Supr. C. ruled on several cases affecting blax these rulings basically set aside the reconstruction amendments and the laws passed to enforce them 1896 case (plessy vs ferguson) segregation was not necessarily discrimination as long as the separate accomadations were equal. |
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| having a voter read and explain a passage. something difficult was often chosen. Anyone who failed the test couldn't vote |
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| a charge for voting since most blax were poor many couldnt afford to vote |
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| declared neither literacy tests nor poll taxes applied to persons who could vote on or b4 jan. 1 1867 or whose father or grandfather could vote then most wites were allowed to vote and most blax werent |
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