History: Preparing for Quiz 3
Why was Johnson's plan unacceptable to the radicals? New Southern congressmen would impair Republican control of Congress. It violated Lincoln's goals for the South. It did not punish the South enough. It did not guarantee blacks' right to vote in the South. The North would not receive financial compensation.
New Southern congressmen would impair Republican control of Congress. It did not punish the South enough. It did not guarantee blacks' right to vote in the South.
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
The "indirect veto of a legislative bill by an executive retaining the bill unsigned until after adjournment of the legislature" is called ________________ veto.
Republicans who voted not to impeach President Johnson
Seven Martyrs
required Senate consent to dismiss officials appointed with their consent
Tenure of Office Act
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan stated that the new state governments had to be republican in form. True or False
True
Reconstruction was dealt a serious blow by Lincoln's death. True or False
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. Kansas-Nebraska Mason-Dixon Wade-Davis Wilmot Proviso
Wade-Davis
a general pardon or conditional offer for past offenses against the government
amnesty
To relieve itself of military occupation, each state had to do which of the following? to repair all of its war-damaged land create a state government acceptable to Congress to guarantee black suffrage to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
create a state government acceptable to Congress to guarantee black suffrage to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
limited the civil and economic rights of blacks
Black Codes
made freed slaves citizens of the United States
Fourteenth Amendment
helped ex-slaves make the transition to freedom
Freedmen's Bureau
"The majority of the Republican Party during the Reconstruction" was called: Republican Conservatives Republican Liberals Republican Radicals
Republican Radicals
was Lincoln's successor
Andrew Johnson
the right to vote; the act of voting
suffrage
all states were readmitted to Union
1870
The president who granted amnesty to those Confederates who took the Oath of Loyalty to the Union was President ________. Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Johnson
President had to issue commands through general of the army
Command of the Army Act
The three states reconstructed under Lincoln's plan were Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. True or False
False
How did Lincoln's assassination affect the South during the Reconstruction? It hurt the South. It helped the South. It did not affect the South.
It hurt the South.
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln? Benedict Arnold Charles Sumner John Wilkes Booth Lee Harvey Oswald
John Wilkes Booth
investigated conditions in the South
Joint Committee of Fifteen
to accuse a public officer of wrongdoing
impeach
The first Reconstruction Act divided the South into five __________________ districts, each controlled by a general and his soldiers.
military
ensured the right to vote for black males
Fifteenth Amendment