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What was the purpose of the black codes?
to restrict freedom of black laborers
True or False?
Lincoln wanted to bring back the seceded states slowly and confiscate the land belonging to the wealthiest 10% of southerners.
False - quickly, generously
After slavery was abolished, many freed slaves wanted to test their freedom and move somewhere new.
True!
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What was the agreement called that most historians mark as the end of Reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
To Andrew Johnson, which level AND branch of government should handle Reconstruction?
federal, executive
What crop in the South became even more common after the Civil War?
cotton
What were the first big businesses in the U.S.?
railroads
True or False?
After being freed, African Americans in the late 1860s were very involved in political activity.
True!
What amendment did the Slaughterhouse Cases nullify?
14th
Daily Double!
What is the first and most lasting institution that was controlled by African-American communities?
the church
Which one of these did NOT make up the Republican coalition in the post-Civil War South? carpetbaggers, African Americans, radical democrats, pre-war whigs, white northerners
radical democrats
Daily Double!
What was the major cause of the 1873 economic depression?
commercial overexpansion (speculative investing in railroads)
Daily Double!
Who was the president when Reconstruction officially ended in 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes
What federal government agency helped advocate for former slaves in the South?
Freedmen's Bureau
Who were scalawags?
small farm landowning southern whites, successful merchants and planters who supported the Republican party
Daily Double!
For the "gospel of prosperity" in the South, Republicans depended on this industry.
railroads
In the late 1800s, what did Liberal Republicans believe caused the corruption, high taxes, and scandal in American politics?
government interference in the economy
What were the 5 areas called that the South was divided into at the beginning of Reconstruction?
military districts
What act of Congress overturned the black codes and the 1857 Died Scott decision?
Civil Rights bill
Why did an electoral crisis develop in the Election of 1876?
disputed electoral returns from several states (20)/voter fraud
What did Rutherford B. Hayes’ election to the presidency in 1876 mean for the 14th, 15th amendments, and the Civil Rights Act?
they were weakened
As a result of the executive branch’s response to the Reconstruction Act, Civil Rights Act, and Tenure of Office Act, what major legislative action happened?
Johnson impeachment by the House
Place these Presidents in the chronological order: Hayes, Johnson, Grant, Lincoln
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes
What did Special Field Order 15 attempt to accomplish?
Provide "40 acres and a mule" to former slaves (confiscated land off the coast of Georgie)