Unit 9 - American History

Where did Lee finally surrender to Grant?

Appomattox Courth House

Which states allowed but did not require school segregation?

Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, Wyoming

Freedmen were prohibited from carrying weapons, meeting in groups, moving town to town without being employed by

Black Codes

Which of the following accurately describes the effects of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments on the lives of southerners

Black southerners had more political and economic freedon.

How did Hayes' election effectively end Reconstruction?

Federal intervention ended in the South.

What happened to the South's economy during the Civil War?

It deteriorated.

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.

How did the Civil War end?

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

White southerners who wanted to "take back the South" and restore White rule.

Redeemers

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes became President.

How did southern blacks lose rights in the years after the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments?

Some white southerners used state legislation, segregation, and violence to limit the freedoms of blacks.

Congress passed this law to set Johnson up for impeachment.

Tenure in Office Act

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

The House impeached the President but the Senate failed to remove him.

According to Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, what could happened when ten percent of a state's voters took a loyalty oath to the Union?

The state could set up a new government.

The Thirteenth Amendment was passed to:

abolish slavery

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.

President Johnson was basically impeached because

he did not support congressional reconstruction policies

The Jim Crown Laws were designed to:

make the practice of separating the races law

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

millions of southern African American men became voters.

As part of his plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln advocated

pardons for former Confederates.

Reconstruction was successful in

raising African Americans' expectations of their right to citizenship.

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

reunify the nation.

The arrangement in which freedmen promised part of their crops to former slave owners in exchange for supplies was know as

sharecropping

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

slaves were property, not citizens

The Ten Percent Plan required that

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

Which side had a more difficult time rebuilding after the Civil War?

the South

By the end of the Civil War

the South's economy was destroyed.

Why did Congress pass the military Reconstruction Act and send troops to reoccupy the South after 1867?

to limit violence and voter intimidation against African Americans

The Ku Klux Klan

used violence and intimidation.

During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan

used violence to prevent freed people from voting.