Chapter 15
As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical Republicans
proposed abolishing the Court.
During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders
underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South
Black sharecropping
was a very common occupation of former slaves.
Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871
was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.
The Tenure of Office Act
was desined to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority. C
The Panic of 1873
was the nation's worst economic depression to that time
After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from
country stores.
During Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to
Southern white Republicans
The most effective weapon used by Southern whites to undermine Reconstruction was
economic pressure
. During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern
education.
After the Civil War, most Southern black women
After the Civil War, most Southern black women
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired
Alaska
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
Johnson was spared conviction by one vote.
During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were
Northern white veterans who moved to the South
All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT
President Ulysses Grant
As Republicans planned for Reconstruction
Radicals sought a range of punishments for white southerners.
At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was
about three and a half million
In 1865, southern whites defined "freedom" as
controlling their future without northern interference.
he Wade-Davis Bill
called for the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates
In the 1860s, the Black Codes were
designed to give whites control over freedmen
The Freedmen's Bureau
distributed food to millions of former slaves.
In the South, the crop-lien system
encouraged the planting of cash crops
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
entered the White House with no political experience.
During Reconstruction, the Southern school system
eventually reached 40 percent of all black children
The Fourteenth Amendment
gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln
insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration
The Alabama claims
involved complaints by the United States against England
In President Abraham Lincoln's plan for the South, "10 percent" referred to the
number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.
As president, Andrew Johnson
offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States
In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction
required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
suffrage.
The elections of 1876 saw
the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected