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Battle Over Reconstruction
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End of Reconstruction
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AMNESTY
What is a pardon or forgiveness for a group of people?
100
Which amendment said that states could not pass laws that take away a citizen's rights?
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
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President Andrew Johnson had different views from ___________?
Radical Republicans
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Which president was assassinated while watching a play in Ford's Theater?
Abe Lincoln
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The _________ marked the end of Reconstruction.
What is the election of 1876?
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POLL TAX
What is a personal tax to be paid before voting?
200
Andrew Johnson required southern states to abolish slavery and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. True or False?
True
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Who were the KKK?
The Ku Klux Klan were whites that were angry about losing power.
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Who was Lincoln's successor?
Vice president Andrew Johnson
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The northerners lost faith in Republicans because of government corruption. True or False
True
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IMPEACHMENT
What is the bringing of formal charges against a public official?
300
Which amendment abolishes slavery?
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
300
All southern whites were glad to see the south was changing. True or False?
False
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Who created the Freedman's Bureau and why?
Congress created this in order to provide emergency relief to people forced out of their homes by war.
300
Describe the sharecropping cycle of poverty.
First: Planting the crops Second:Harvesting the crop and settling accounts Third: Cycle of debt
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SCALAWAGS
What is a name given to southern white who had opposed secession?
400
What does the Fifteenth Amendment allow?
African American males the right to vote regardless of their race, color, or if they were previously slaves.
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What prevented African Americans from receiving their full civil rights?
The idea of "Separate but equal"
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What was Homer Plessy arrested for?
He sat in a coach marked "For Whites Only"
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Why might sharecroppers go into debt?
If prices go up, people won't buy from them and so sharecroppers won't have money to pay back the landowners.
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CARPETBAGGERS
What is the name given to northern whites who went to the south to start businesses?
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All African Americans were able to vote after the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified. However, they had to do what two things first in order to vote?
They had to pass the literacy test and pay a poll tax.
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Why was the process of rebuilding the south called Radical Reconstruction?
It was the "hard" reconstruction demanded by members of Congress.
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Who became president after Johnson? How did he win?
Rutherford Hayes became president. He won by privately telling people he would end Reconstruction.
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What were two successes and two failures of Reconstruction?
Successes:1)The union was restored and the south began rebuilding. 2)African Americans gained the right to vote. 3)African Americans gained legal rights to equal treatment. Failures:1)Southern governments kept African Americans from voting. 2)Federal troops were unable to stop the violence against African Americans.