chapter 10 review Flashcards

1
Q

Lincoln’s reconstruction plan: had to do what?

A

Take an oath of loyalty and accept the slaves are free

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2
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President Johnson believed who started Civil War

A

rich planter elite

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3
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Under Republican reconstruction plan, Confederate states had to ratify what?

A

13th amendment

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4
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How did Johnson challenge the Tenure of Office Act?

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Fired secretary of war stanton

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5
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Why did some people not want to remove Johnson from office?

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Dangerous precedent of impeaching a president because he did not agree to congressional policies

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6
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scalawags

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Small farmers who did not want wealthy planters to regain power

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7
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goals of the kkk

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Drive out union troops and regain the south for the democratic party

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8
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Why did Democrats think sin taxes favored the rich?

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Rich owned bounds and poor paid taxes

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9
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when did reconstruction end

A

Hayes pulled federal troops from South

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10
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Lincoln’splanforReconstruction

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Reconcile with south, not punish them

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11
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GoalsoftheRadicalRepublicans

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African americans can vote, prevent confederate leaders from coming
back to power, and republican party strong in the south

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12
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Why did Congress reject representatives that southern voters elected to congress under Johnson

A

former confederate leaders

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13
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How could Johnson interfere with Reconstruction

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refuse to enforce the law

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14
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What was the main charge at Johnson’s impeachment trial

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Broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act

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15
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How did Grant win several southern states in the 1868 election

A

Federal troops help African Americans
vote

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16
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carpetbaggers

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Northerners who moved South to take advantage of the region

17
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What was the role of the president according to grant?

A

carry out law

18
Q

who nominated horace greeley as president

A

liberal republicans

19
Q

why was there no clear winner in the 1876 election

A

voter fraud

20
Q

military reconstruction act

A

divided the south into five military districts

21
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enforcement acts

A

authority to arrest KKK members and intended to combat violence in the south

22
Q

black codes

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meant to keep african americans in conditions similar to slavery

23
Q

15th amendment

A

right to vote could not be denied on account of race, color, or previous servitude

24
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tenure of office act

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led to the impeachment of andrew johnson. passed to prevent johnson from firing stanton

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civil rights act of 1866
allowed african americans to own property
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14th amendment
equal protection of the law and the state cannot deny life, liberty, or property without due process
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william sherman
reserve all plantation for freedman to use during the war
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rutherford b hayes
ended reconstruction
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thaddeus stevens
radical republican leader who wanted to revolutionize southern institutions, habits, and manners
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andrew johnson
posted thousands of southerners while congress was not in session
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edwin stanton
johnson’s secretary of war
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horace greeley
nominated for president in 1872 by liberal republicans
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ulysses s grant
civil war reputation carried him into the whitehousr
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lincoln
vetoed the wade davis bill
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william belknap
grants secretary of war who accepted bribes
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samuel tilden
lost the presidential election in the compromise of 1877