Unit 6 JOHNSON VERSUS REPUBLICAN RADICALS

Republicans who voted not to impeach President Johnson

Seven Martyrs

required Senate consent to dismiss officials that had been appointed with the Senate's consent:

Tenure of Office Act

suffrage

The right to vote; the act of voting.

impeach

To accuse a public officer of wrongdoing.

By December 1865, the Southern states had complied with Johnson's Plan.

True

limited civil and economic rights of blacks

Black Codes

made freed slaves citizens of the United States

Fourteenth Amendment

helped ex-slaves make transition to freedom

Freedmen's Bureau

In recognition of the importance of the Black vote, the Republicans passed the:

15th amendment

ensured the right to vote for black males

15th amendment

all states readmitted to Union:

1870

amnesty

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

Lincoln's successor:

Andrew Johnson

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

Andrew Johnson

president had to issue commands through General of the Army:

Command of the Army Act

The first Reconstruction Act divided the South into seven military districts.

False

investigated conditions in the South

Joint Committee of Fifteen

Select the items that made Johnson's plan unacceptable to the Radicals.

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.

According to Congress, the Southern states would avoid military occupation by doing all of the following except:

refuse to extend black suffrage