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The president that wanted 10% of ex-Confederate voters to pledge allegiance to the US and obey emancipation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Bureau that would help freed African Americans
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Most African Americans would vote for this party after the Civil War
What is the Republican Party?
What Congress did when Southern delegates, following Johnson's plan, came back to Congress to take their seat
What is refuse them?
Congress refused to let the Southern congressmen sit back in as with Johnson's plan, they got off without any punishment so it would be like letting in a traitor back in with open arms. After this, Congress would take over reconstructionism.
The amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
The two types of Recontruction
What is Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional Reconstruction?
The (__) was an American terrorist group which targeted African Americans
What is the KKK/Ku Klux Klan?
The first African American to be voted into Congress was from:
a) Minnesota
b) New York
c) Mississippi
d) Washington
What is Mississippi?
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American congressman from Mississippi.
The only Southern to be in Congress during the Civil War
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Yes. The same one who will take over the presidency once Lincoln is assassinated. And yes. Issue laws that state that Southern's can get off scot-free without any punishment for treason.
The amendment that states that no one can be denied the right to vote because of their skin color, previous servitude, or race
What is the 15th Amendment?
The political party in charge of radical reconstructionism
What is radical republicans?
Radical Republicans were adamant abolitionists prior to the Civil war and now that what they wanted was happening, they took power in Congress.
The (__) were/was a precursor to Jim Crow Laws
What is Black Codes?
The area from which people came from who moved to the South because they were able to vote and gain political power
What is the North?
Many Northerners after the Civil War would move to the South as if they were the only voters, since Southerners weren't able to vote during this time, then they could gain a lot of political control. Most would move back to the North after a few years.
The territory that was bought during Andrew Jackson's presidency
What is Alaska?
The Alaska Purchase (1867), got it from Russia.
The amendment which stated that all persons, born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the US
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was to grant freedmen citizenship (against the previous ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson)
Who was the president that stated that any Southerner who took an oath, even the highest officials, got pardoned?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
He pardoned 13,000 Confederate officials whom he had earlier labeled traitors, restoring their property and political rights. This would later be changed by Congressional reconstruction.
What is true?
The federal government did promise this. The land was from Confederate traitors but once they pledged their loyalty and the government figured out they couldn't do this feat to 4 million people, they pulled back. So it essentially "failed" (a very few amount of people for their land).
This party dominated the (racist) Southern white majority
What is the democratic party?
The curious event that happened with both the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and the Freedman's Bureau Act
What is they were both vetoed and both overridden?
This requires 2/3's vote from in the House and Senate. Kinda a big deal guys. Happens only 7% of the time.
The 14th Amendment also:
a) states that Aleana is going to jail
b) prevented ex-Confederates from voting
c) stated that the military will intervene against transgressors
d) prohibited racially motivated violence
What is prevented ex-Confederates from voting?
Reconstruction Act of 1867:
a) invalidated Johnson's reconstruction
b) jailed the top generals and officers of the Confederacy for 5 years
c) required the South to pay for the whole war
d) closed off American foreign policies so they can focus on themselves
What is invalidated Johnson's reconstruction?
After the war, African Americans tended to like (__) more than labor contracts
What is sharecropping?
Sharecropping was when a landowner would "rent" out a piece of their land to people (they would build their homes there), poor whites or African Americans, and their payment would be a 'shared' portion of the crops that they grew. Most African Americans liked this more than labor contracts because they had a bigger sense of self-fulfillment and independence.
The (__) Clause stated a man could only vote if his ancestor had been a voter before 1867
This was a legal loophole to stop African Americans from voting.
The Compromise of 1877 ended what
What is reconstruction?
True or False: The 13th Amendment guarantees that involuntary servitude is illegal even in the face of legal punishment
What is false?
The 13th amendment states that involuntary servitude is still legal if it's a punishment by law.