US HISTORY CHAP 15
The Tenure of Office Act was passed by congress to
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The flaws in the 15th amendment allowed for
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How many votes did Congress come short of impeachment
1
The united states Justice Department was created in
1871
the first southern states legislature to expel all the african american members was
Alabama
The 15th amendment guaranteed the right to vote to
All male citizens
newly founded black colleges in the south
Atlanta, Hampton, Tugaloo
the Freeman's Bureau was also known as
Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees, and Abandoned lands
what was one reason why president Johnson was not removed from office
He was not guilty of the charges against him
Who was the first African American to be elected to the Senate
Hiram Revels
Which scandal did not occur during the Grant Presidency
Indian Ring
Segregation laws were also known as
Jim Crow laws
which state was considered by Lincoln to be the ideal model for transition back to the union
Louisiana
the first time African American males were allowed to vote after the Civil War was in
Michigan
The first southern state to introduce "black codes" was
Mississippi
What court case severely limited the 14th amendment
Munn v illinois
who ended the land distribution to former slaves
President Johnson
who said "few people who were not right in the midst of the scences can form any exact ideas of the intense desire of whic the people of my race showed for education.."
Sojourner truth
where did the idea of forty acres and a mule come from
Special field order No. 15
Who said "I hold that women, as well as men, have the right o vote, and my heart and my voice go with the movement to extend suffrage to women"
Susan B. Anthony
Andrew Johnson was the only senator from a Confederate state to stay in the union gov. what state was he from?
Tennessee
what was seen by former slaves as "proof of their independence"
a house
the 13th amendment
abolished slavery
Sojourner Truth argued that if women were not given the right to vote
all women would be slaved to men
in 1883, the supreme court struck down the
civil rights act of 1865
the democratic platform for the 1872 presidential election focused on
civil service reform and state's rights
the civil rights bill of 1866
declared everyone born (except American Indians) in the United States to be citizens.
all were purposed by the joint committee on reconstruction except
former Confederate leaders should be allowed to join congress
who was the last african american to serve in the Senate until 1966
garrett davis
who was the only southern leader to be tried for treason and executed
general lee
Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical Republicans' plan for reconstruction focused on the clause that
guarnateed each state a republican form of gov
Lincoln and some Republicans argued throughout the war that southern states
had never left the union
Which president ended reconstruction
hayes
the Enforcement Act of 1870
made it a federal crime to be a Klansman
Under Johnson's reconstruction plan, the confederate states were readmitted as soon as they
ratified the 13th amendment
The 14th amendment included all except
rendering Confederate debt null and void
In expanding voting rights for african americans and poor whites
republicans were giving equal rights to everyone
southern vagrancy laws
said any poor person could be arrested fro not having a job
Southern whites who supported the Republican party were known as
scalawags
The Ku Klux Klan was originally formed as a
social club
the southern urban police forces were used to enforce the laws and
terrorize African Americans
under the sharecropping system
the owner supplied a place to stay, materials and a piece of land to grow cotton
why were many former confederate officers and leader given pardons by President Johnson
they declared their loyalty to the federal gov
to get the economy of the Southern states back on track, the federal government turned to
wheat
The majority of teacher from the north were
white women
former slaves were usually unable to purchase land because
whites did not want to sell them land
