US History Chapter 12 "The Reconstruction Era"

The Radical Republicans rejected the Ten Percent Plan because they believed that

African Americans should be granted full citizenship.

What action did Congress take to support Southern African Americans?

Congress overturned Johnson's vetoes on major Reconstruction legislation.

How did Hayes' election effectively end Reconstruction?

Federal intervention ended in the South

Who ran against Grant in 1872 as the Liberal Republican Party candidate?

Horace Greeley

Which event led the House of Representatives to impeach President Johnson?

Johnson's attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Which of the following was a key problem with the sharecropping system?

Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes became president

Why was a plan for Reconstruction of the South needed?

The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states

What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson?

The House impeached the president, but the Senate failed to remove him

Which idea was a part of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

The Southern states had never really left the Union

What did the Enforcement Act of 1870 make illegal?

The use of force or coercion to prevent citizens from voting

How were violators of the Enforcement Act of 1870 punished?

They were fined at least $500 and imprisoned for a minimum of one month

What did Johnson require states to do to regain membership in the Union?

Voters had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, and state constitutions had to ban slavery

In the years immediately following the Civil War, the South

became a stronghold of the Republican Party.

During his presidency, Ulysses S. Grant

gave high-level advisory posts to untrustworthy friends and acquaintances.

This cartoon shows that President Ulysses S. Grant

had his ability to lead marred by scandal.

In the system of share-tenancy, farmworkers

had more control over their crops and supplies than was true in sharecropping.

One success of Reconstruction was the

introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the South.

The Republican party became strong in the South, in part because

millions of Southern African American men became voters.

Southern Democrats appealed to small farmers by

pointing out that schools and road building resulted in higher taxes.

Reconstruction was successful in

raising African American's expectations of their right to citizenship.

During Reconstruction, most African American families in the South

remained in rural areas, where they worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.

During the 1870s, Supreme Court decisions

restricted the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment.

One of President Lincoln's first major goals for Reconstruction was to

reunify the nation.

The Fifteenth Amendment affected the women's suffrage movement by

splitting the movement.

The Ten Percent Plan required that

ten percent of a state's voters take a loyalty oath to the Union.

By the end of the Civil War,

the South's economy had been destroyed.

By the end of the 1860s, northern support for Reconstruction had faded because

the cost of military operations in the South worried many people.

One of the Enforcement Acts

tried to protect black voters from intimidation and violence.

During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan

used violence to prevent freed people from voting.

President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction required

wealthy planters and Confederate leaders to apply for pardons.