History and Geography 806 Quiz 3
"The majority of the Republican Party during the Reconstruction" was called:
Republican Radicals
What were Southerners called that remained loyal to the Union?
Scalawags
Republicans who voted not to impeach President Johnson
Seven Martyrs
required Senate consent to dismiss officials appointed with their consent
Tenure of Office Act
Explain why the carpetbag governments were a hindrance for the South.
They were a hindrance to the South because most of them wanted political gain or power rather than helping the ex-slaves. They also hurt black people as well as the South by putting them in offices they couldn't handle, because they had little education.
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan stated that the new state governments had to be republican in form.
True
Reconstruction was dealt a serious blow by Lincoln's death.
True
The ________ Bill would have required a majority of a Southern state's electorate to take the Oath of Loyalty before forming a new government.
Wade-Davis
The first Reconstruction Act divided the South into five _____ districts, each controlled by a general and his soldiers.
military
The "indirect veto of a legislative bill by an executive retaining the bill unsigned until after adjournment of the legislature" is called _____ veto
Lincoln's plan allowed a former Confederate state to form a new government once ____ percent of the electorate had taken the Oath of Loyalty.
ten
made freed slaves citizens of the United States
14th amendment
The president who granted amnesty to those Confederates who took the Oath of Loyalty to the Union was President ________.
Andrew Johnson
was Lincoln's successor
Andrew Johnson
limited the civil and economic rights of blacks
Black Codes
What were Northerners called that descended upon the South to take control of the government?
Carpetbaggers
The three states reconstructed under Lincoln's plan were Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
False; Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas
helped ex-slaves make the transition to freedom
Freedmen's Bureau
How did Lincoln's assassination affect the South during the Reconstruction?
It hurt the South
investigated conditions in the South
Joint Committee of Fifteen
Why was Johnson's plan unacceptable to the radicals?
New Southern congressmen would impair Republican control of Congress, It did not guarantee blacks' right to vote in the South, and It did not punish the South enough.
ensured the right to vote for black males
15th amendment
all states were readmitted to Union
1870
All Federal troops were removed from the South in the year _____ and white supremacy was restored.
1877
To relieve itself of military occupation, each state had to do which of the following?
to guarantee black suffrage, to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, and create a state government acceptable to Congress
For the whites to take control of the governments in the South, they had to prevent the blacks from _____
voting
President had to issue commands through general of the army
Command of the Army Act
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Which of the following was the best-known of the secret societies that stopped blacks from voting?
Ku Klux Klan
