History 8B Unit 1 Quiz 3-L2

Amnesty

A general pardon or conditional offer for past offenses against the government

Seven Martyrs

Republicans who voted not to impeach President Johnson

Tenure of Office Act

Required Senate consent to dismiss officials appointed with their consent

1870

All states were readmitted to Union

Fifteenth Amendment

Ensured the right to vote for black males

Freedman's Bureau

Helped ex-slaves make the transition to freedom

Joint Committee of Fifteen

Investigated conditions in the South

Black Codes

Limited the civil and economic rights of blacks

Fourteenth Amendment

Made freed slaves citizens of the United States

Command of the Army Act

President had to issue commands through general of the army

Military

The first Reconstruction Act divided the South into five _________ districts, each controlled by a general and his soldiers.

Andrew Johnson

The president who granted amnesty to those Confederates who took the Oath of Loyalty to the Union was President ________.

Suffrage

The right to vote; the act of voting

Impeach

To accuse a public officer of wrongdoing

Create a state government acceptable to Congress To guarantee black suffrage To ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

To relieve itself of military occupation, each state had to do which of the following?

Andrew Johnson

Was Lincoln's successor

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.

Why was Johnson's plan unacceptable to the radicals?