Reconstruction
Andrew johnson
...
Compromise of 1877
...
Enforcement Acts
...
Ku Klux Klan
...
Redeemer
...
black code
...
carpetbagger
...
civil rights act of 1866
...
fifteenth amendment
...
fourteenth amendment
...
freedmen's bureau
...
impeach
...
integration
...
radical republican
...
reconstruction
...
scalawag
...
segregation
...
share-tenancy
...
sharecropping
...
tenant farming
...
wade-davis bill
...
The radical republicans rejected the ten percent plan because they believed that
African Americans should be granted full citizenship
Who ran against grant in 1872 as the liberal republican party candidate?
Horace greeley
What event led to the House of representatives to impeach President Johnson?
Johnson's attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin
What did republicans gain from the compromise of 1877?
Rutherford b hayes became president
In the years immediately following the Civil War, the South
became a stronghold of the Republican Party
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
during his presidency, Ulysses S Grant
gave high-level advisory posts to untrustworthy friends and acquaintances
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
introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the south
Which of the following was a key problem with the sharecropping system?
landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt
southern democrats appealed to small farmers by
pointing out that building roads and schools resulted in higher taxes
reconstruction was successful in
raising African Americans' 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 14 Amendment
One of President Lincoln's first major goals for Reconstruction was to
reunify the nation
the 15 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
What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson?
the House impeached the president, but the Senate failed to remove him
Why was a plan for reconstruction of the South needed?
the constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states
by the end of the 1860s, northern support for reconstruction had faded because
the cost of military operations in the south worried many people
By the end of the Civil War
the south's economy had been destroyed
What 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
During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
used violence to prevent freed people from voting
What did Johnson require states to do to regain membership in the Union?
voters had to ratify the 13 Amendment, and state constitutions had to ban slavery