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| Who was Abe Lincoln's vice president? |
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| Define the Word Reconstruction. |
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| period following Civil War with imposed rules to allow Southern states re-entry into Union |
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| define what the Thirteenth Amendment was. |
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translates Emancipation Proclamation into law
abolishes slavery
ratified 1865 |
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| Define what the Ten Percent Plan was. |
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Ten Percent Plan common name for Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
pardon and restoration of all property except slaves to all who took oath to accept abolition of slavery and provide for education of black children, then state could be represented in Congress |
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| Describe what the Confiscation Act was. |
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all rebel property eligible for confiscation
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Andrew Johnson seventeenth president of US after Lincoln assassinated
experienced but not suited for presidency
stubborn, lacked decisiveness
vetoed Freedmen's Bill and Civil Rights Bill in Feb and March 1866 - this caused both Moderates and Conservative Republicans to break from president and attack his policies |
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| laws set to govern strictly the black freedmen |
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| What happened in December 1865? |
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| By time Congress reconvened, all Confederate States had formed new governments and elected representatives to Congress |
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| What was the Freedmen's Bureau? |
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| agency set up to protect and further economic livelihood for blacks |
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| Northern Republican moderate who led two important pieces of Reconstruction legislation |
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| What was the Civil Rights Bill? |
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| defined blacks as US citizens (overturning ruling of Dred Scott case where it was ruled that as a black he wasn't a citizen and therefore could not sue the United States) |
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| What was the Fourteenth Amendment? |
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Fourteenth Amendment Congress overrode Johnson's veto (first time significant legislation passed over President's veto)
3 clauses for post war issues
1. kept national debt but said that neither US or individual states would repay debts incurred during rebellion
2. barred anyone from political office who took oath to support Constitution and then engaged in insurrection
3. any state that kept an adult male citizen from voting would have its representation in Congress decreased proportionately. |
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| What was the Reconstruction Act? |
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1867
over Johnson's veto
declared state governments to be provisional and brought in military authority
outlined full steps that states would have to take to get full membership in national govt: holding constitutional conventions, ratifying 14th Amendment, and adopting constitutions that allowed black males to vote |
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| What was the Tenure of Office Act? |
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| following Johnson's removal of Stanton from office, Congress passed measures to limit president's ability. Act states that President must get consent of Senate before dismissing any official whose appointments required Senatorial confirmation |
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| Who was Charles Sumner/Thaddeus Stevens? |
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proponents of land reform
proposed bill to give 40 acres of confiscated land to each freedman |
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| What was the Election of 1868? |
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Ulysses S. Grant (Republican) against Horatio Seymour (Democrat)
Grant elected by large electoral college majority although popular vote was close |
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| What was the 15th Amendment? |
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the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous conditions of servitude
(did not include proposed Wilson amendment which added education and property and would have prevented Southern states from stopping blacks from voting through the use of literacy tests and poll taxes.
ratified in 1870 |
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| What was Lincoln's plan for reconstruction? |
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| President Lincoln seemed to favor self-Reconstruction by the states with little assistance from Washington. To appeal to poorer whites, he offered to pardon all Confederates; to appeal to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats, he pledged to protect private property. Unlike Radical Republicans in Congress, Lincoln did not want to punish southerners or reorganize southern society. His actions indicate that he wanted Reconstruction to be a short process in which secessionist states could draft new constitutions as swiftly as possible so that the United States could exist as it had before. But historians can only speculate that Lincoln desired a swift reunification, for his assassination in 1865 cut his plans for Reconstruction short. |
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| What were radical republicans? |
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| Many leading Republicans in Congress feared that Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was not harsh enough, believing that the South needed to be punished for causing the war. These Radical Republicans hoped to control the Reconstruction process, transform southern society, disband the planter aristocracy, redistribute land, develop industry, and guarantee civil liberties for former slaves. Although the Radical Republicans were the minority party in Congress, they managed to sway many moderates in the postwar years and came to dominate Congress in later sessions. |
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| What was the Wade Davis Bill? |
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In the summer of 1864, the Radical Republicans passed the Wade-Davis Bill to counter Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan. The bill stated that a southern state could rejoin the Union only if 50 percent of its registered voters swore an “ironclad oath” of allegiance to the United States. The bill also established safeguards for black civil liberties but did not give blacks the right to vote.
President Lincoln feared that asking 50 percent of voters to take a loyalty oath would ruin any chance of ending the war swiftly. Moreover, 1864 was an election year, and he could not afford to have northern voters see him as an uncompromising radical. Because the Wade-Davis Bill was passed near the end of Congress’s session, Lincoln was able to pocket-veto it, effectively blocking the bill by refusing to sign it before Congress went into recess. |
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| What is the definition of Amnesty? |
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| an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses |
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| (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough |
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| What was the radical republicans view on the 10% plan. |
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| they rejected it and said it was to leenit for the southerns for what they did |
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| How can you override a veto. |
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| The process by which each chamber of Congress votes on a bill vetoed by the President. To pass a bill over the president's objections requires a two-thirds vote in each Chamber. Historically, Congress has overridden fewer than ten percent of all presidential vetoes |
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| What was the Congressional elections of 1866? |
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The 1866 elections were a decisive event in the early Reconstruction era, in which President Andrew Johnson faced off against the Radical Republicans in a bitter dispute over whether Reconstruction should be lenient or harsh toward the vanquished South.
Most of the congressmen from the former Confederate states were either prevented from leaving the state or were arrested on the way to the capital. A Congress consisting of mostly Radical Republicans sat early in the Capitol and aside from the delegation from Tennessee who were allowed in, the few Southern Congressmen who arrived were not seated. |
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| What was the Radical reconstruction? |
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| The 1866 Congressional elections turned on the issue of Reconstruction, producing a sweeping Republican victory in the North, and providing the Radical Republicans with sufficient control of Congress to override Johnson's vetoes and commence their own "Radical Reconstruction" in 1867. |
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| What was the First Reconstruction Act? |
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| The First Reconstruction Act, also known as the Military Reconstruction Act, passed into law on March 2, 1867 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. |
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| What was the Second Reconstruction Act? |
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| During the Second Reconstruction, African-Americans once again began holding various political offices, and reasserting and reclaiming their civil and political rights as American citizens. Unlike the first period of Reconstruction most African-Americans abandoned the Republican Party for the Democratic Party. A noteworthy feature of Second Reconstruction was the political realignment that occurred in 1965, which transformed the nature and composition of both the Republican and Democratic Parties, eroding the Democratic Solid South. |
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| What happened a little while after the Civil War? |
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| President Lincoln passed away |
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| What did Lincoln want to do with the Southerners? |
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| Lincoln wanted to encourage the southerners that supported the Union to take charge of state goverments |
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| What bill did Lincoln refuse to sign |
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| What did John Wilkes Booth do for a living? |
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| an actor and a confederate sympathizer |
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| What did African Americans do after president Lincolns death? |
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| After Lincolns death who became president? |
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| Where was Andrew Johnson born? |
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| What is the definition of the word convince? |
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| What is the definition of override? |
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| Could African Americans become full citizen? |
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| yes, as long as they were born in the United States |
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| What amendment excluded Native Americans from being citizens? |
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| What party gained control of the southern state government. |
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| What president had to go through impeachment put he was found guilty? |
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| A formal accusation of wrongdoing against a public official. According to the United States Constitution, the House of Representatives can vote to impeach an official, but the Senate actually tries the case. |
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| True or False Andrew Johnson cam from a rich family. |
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| True or false Black codes" were passed by Southern states to give equality to African Americans. |
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| True or false The time period before the Civil War is called "Reconstruction." |
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| True or False the North was upset about Lincolns death |
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| True or False If the President of the United States does not like a bill that has been passed by Congress, the President can veto the bill. |
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| True or False President Lincoln opposed the "Freedmen's Bureau. |
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| true or false Historians often rank President Johnson as one of the best Presidents in our history. |
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| True or False, During the Reconstruction time period, African Americans usually voted for the Republican Party. |
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| True or False Radical Republicans believed that President Johnson was too tough on the Southern states. |
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| True or False Andrew Johnson had always been a member of the Republican Party. |
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| True or False The "First Reconstruction Act" divided the former Confederate states into five military districts, which would be run by a military commander. |
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| Ture or False Radical Republicans thought that the South's "black codes" were fair and just |
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| True or False The Wade-Davis Bill was tougher on the South than the Ten-Percent Plan. |
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| True or False President Johnson believed that African Americans deserved equal rights. |
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| True Or false The United States Constitution gives Congress the power to override a Presidential veto. |
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| True or false President Johnson had a great relationship with the Radical Republicans. |
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| True or False President Lincoln wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction. |
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| True or False President Johnson favored the Civil Rights Act of 1866. |
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| True or False Radical Republicans were tougher on the South than President Lincoln would have been. |
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| Who came up with the 10% plan? |
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| Describe the time known as Radical Reconstruction. |
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| Congress would pass a bill. Johnson would veto the bill. Congress would override the veto, and the bill would become a law, anyway. |
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| Which group of people received the right to vote because of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution? |
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| What fraction of the United States Senate must vote in favor of conviction for the President of the United States to be found guilty of impeachment? |
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| What year was President Lincoln assassinated? |
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| The "Civil Rights Act of 1866" gave full citizenship to which group of people? |
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Which one of the following words is the CLOSEST in meaning to the word "oath?"
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Promise
Fight Enemy |
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| What did the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution make illegal? |
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| Based on how President Johnson behaved in 1866, which political party won a majority of the Congressional elections in 1866? |
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| The "Freedmen's Bureau" was an organization that was created to help which group of people? |
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| former African American slaves |
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| What vocabulary word means "to formally charge the President with a crime?" |
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| The "Tenure of Office Act" was a law that said the ____________ could not remove a government official without the Senate's approval. |
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| president of the United States |
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What war hero (and Galena, Illinois resident) won the Presidential Election of 1868? |
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| The 14th Amendment gave full citizenship to all people who ______________ |
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| are born in the United States |
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| Who played an important role in reconstruction politics? |
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| At national level how many African Americans served the House Of Repersentatives? |
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| What is the definition of the word scalawags? |
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| scoundrel or worthless rascal |
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