chapter 15 term

Question 1

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction

Answer 1

ten percent plan

Question 2

Congress’s plan to require 50 percent of a state’s white males to take an oath of allegiance tothe Union before being re-admitted

Answer 2

wade Davis plan

Question 3

Amendment that abolished slavery

Answer 3

13th amendment

Question 4

Amendment that granted citizenship to blacks

Answer 4

14th amendment

Question 5

act that divided the South into military districts until states wrote new constitutionsapproved by Congress

Answer 5

reconstruction act of 1867

Question 6

Act that required the president to get Senate approval to remove certain officials from office

Answer 6

ten year of office act’

Question 7

amendment that said states could not deny the right to vote based on race

Answer 7

15th amendment

Question 8

Act that pardoned most Confederate leaders, allowing them to hold officeWar

Answer 8

.

Question 9

The labor force was severely disrupted by the slaves being freed, cities, farms, and businesses had been destroyed, state governments needed to be reestablished, and the South’s paper money was worthless were alltrue about the situation in the _____________after the Civil War

Answer 9

south

Question 10

The period during which Presidents Lincoln and Johnson directed Reconstruction was known as _____ Reconstruction.

Answer 10

presidental reconstruction

Question 11

Most former Confederates would be pardoned if they swore to support theConstitution, a state could reestablish a civilian government as soon as ten percent of thosewho had voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Union, a military governor would be appointed in each captured state until it could reestablish a civilian government were all part of _________________ plan for Reconstruction.

Answer 11

lincoln’s plan for reconstruction

Question 12

They did not think former Confederates should be allowed to hold office,they worried the South would gain more representatives since former slaves would now be counted as full persons, they worried that Northern and Southern Democrats would unite and gain control of the federal government, and they wanted more to be done to secure political and civil rights for African Americanswere reasons ___________opposed Lincoln’s plan forReconstruction

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Answer 12

radical republican

Question 13

_________________plan for Reconstruction included wealthy former Confederates would have to appeal to him directly for a pardon, unpardoned Southerners could not vote or hold office, and states would be re-admitted once they wrote new constitutions and ratified the 13th Amendment

Answer 13

President johnson’s plan

Question 14

In 1867 Congressional Reconstruction became _____ Reconstruction when those who wanted to make it more difficult for Southern states to reenter the Union were firmly in control.

Answer 14

radical reconstruction

Question 15

It divided the South into five military districts, it required states to ratify the 14th Amendment, and it required states to guarantee adult black males the right to votetrue about the

Answer 15

reconstruction act of 1867

Question 16

He defended the political rights of African Americans, he signed legislation to combat the Ku Klux Klan, he took steps to improve treatment of Native Americans and he improved tax collection were all successes of _______________presidency

Answer 16

grant’s presidency

Question 17

Northerners became more concerned about other issues such as economic prosperity and less concerned about the plight of African Americans, the Amnesty Act of 1872 pardoned most former Confederate leaders, restoring theirability to vote and hold office, which resulted in white Southerners regaining controlof state governments, and when federal troops were withdrawn from the South there was no one to enforce the Civil Rights Act and protect blacks from the Ku Klux Klan were true about the end of

Answer 17

reconstruction

Question 18

They farmed small plots of land owned by the planter and paid a portion of the crop as rent for the land, they typically had to borrow money for seed and provisions at the beginning of each planting season, and they rarely showed a profit and were often in a cycle of debt and poverty which was hard to break out of was true about

Answer 18

sharecroppers

Question 19

. Grant citizenship and equal protection of state laws to African Americans, count all African Americans rather than three-fifths of them, to determine a state’srepresentation in Congress, exclude those who had broken their oath to support the Constitution (by supportingthe Confederacy) from holding government office unless pardoned by Congress were all part of.

Answer 19

14th amendment

Question 20

. The period from the end of the Civil War to 1877 was called

Answer 20

reconstruction

Question 21

Former slaves were called

Answer 21

freedman

Question 22

The opponents in Congress to Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction were called

Answer 22

radical Republicans

Question 23

A general pardon for a large group of people is

Answer 23

amnesty

Question 24

Very restrictive state laws that placed African Americans in an inferior position were called

Answer 24

black codes

Question 25

The secretary of state who negotiated a treaty to purchase Alaska was

Answer 25

Williams Seward

Question 26

The agency established to assist former slaves was the

Answer 26

freedman’s burrow

Question 27

Those from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called

Answer 27

carpetbaggers

Question 28

. A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction was called a

Answer 28

scalawags

Question 29

The House of Representatives’ power to bring charges against the president is called

Answer 29

impeachment

Question 30

The former Civil War general who won the presidential election of 1868 for the Republicans was.

Answer 30

grant

Question 31

Southerners who wanted to “save” the South and its culture by overthrowing blacks and otherRepublicans who held offices were calledRedeemers

Answer 31

redeemers

Question 32

A secret organization formed by former Confederate soldiers and determined to keep African Americans under control by using intimidation and violence was the

Answer 32

kkk klan

Question 33

. Towns built by factory owners were called

Answer 33

miltowns