Reconstruction Answers
True
After being passed by Congress, new amendments must be approved by the legislature in 3/4 of the states.
False
Andrew Johnson was removed from the presidency for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
senate
If a government official is impeached by the House of Representatives, he is put on trial before the __________.
poll taxes
Many blacks could not afford to pay __________ and therefore were not allowed to vote.
carpetbaggers
Northerners who held office in the South and often accepted money in return for political favors
True
Reconstruction need when President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the South.
scalawags
Southern white officeholders who had not supported the Confederate government during the Civil War
False
The Radical Republicans wanted to carry out Abraham Lincoln's plan for readmitting the Southern states to the Union.
KKK
The __________ was a secret organization that used threats and violence to keep former slaves away from the polls.
democratic
The term "Solid South" refers to the overwhelming support that Southern whites gave to the __________ Party.
False
When races are "segregated," the live together amidst friendship and equal opportunity.
Lincoln
__________ drew up the "10 per cent plan" for Reconstruction in order to make it easy for the Southern states to rejoin the Union.
13 Amendment
abolished slavery throughout the United States
grandfather clause
denied the right to vote to people who could not vote themselves, or whose ancestors could not vote, as of January 1867
Reconstruction Acts
divided ten former Confederate States into five military districts in order to carry out Congress' program of Reconstruction
14 Amendment
gave citizenship to blacks
15 Amendment
gave the right to vote to all males regardless of race
Jim Crow laws
kept the races apart in housing, transportation, schools, etc.
Reconstruction
lasted from 1865 to 1877
Black Codes
used by southern whites to limit the freedoms and rights of ex-slaves
