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Reunion Plans
Disagreements
What's in a Name
To vote or not to vote
Potpourri
100
Designed the 10 Percent Plan
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
This political party, who dominated Reconstruction policies, became known as this after their success in the midterm elections of 1866.
Who are the "Radical" Republicans
100
The dominant political party during the Era
What is the Republican Party
100
Granted voting rights to all male citizens over the age of 21
What is the 15th Amendment
100
The years of Reconstruction
What is 1865-1877
200
Thought that "Restoration", as he called it, was a role of the Presidency
Who is President Andrew Johnson
200
To be formally charged with a crime
What is to be impeached
200
Holds impeachment trials
What is the Senate
200
Laws designed to restrict rights to African Americans in the south
What are the Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws is acceptible)
200
Abraham Lincoln and W.T. Sherman's philosophy regarding reconstructing the south
What is fair and equal treatment (answers may vary) "Malice toward none; charity for all"
300
This plan said that former Confederates could not hold office and that freedmen's voting rights must be guaranteed.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
300
This is why President Andrew Johnson was impeached
What is violating the Tenure of Office Act
300
Votes whether or not to impeach a President
What is the House of Representatives
300
These are three ways in which African American voting rights were restricted
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
300
This law said that anyone who settles on western lands and improves it, can claim it as their own after 5 years. (This also paves the way for a transcontinental railroad)
What is the Homestead Act
400
These two laws divided the South into military districts, guaranteed black male voting rights, prevented former Confederates from holding office, registered black voters and called for new state constitutional conventions
What are the 1st and 2nd Reconstruction Acts
400
This is because he was in charge of carrying out Congress' Reconstruction policies
What is why President Johnson fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton over other cabinet members
400
During the Reconstruction Era, the southern states were divided into these
Who are military districts
400
He founded the Ku Klux Klan in large part to prevent former slaves from voting
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest
400
This blackminister worked to recruit black soldiers during the Civil War, and afterward built black schools in St. Louis
Who is Hirem Revels
500
This agreement finally ended the Redconstruction Era
What is the Compromise of 1877
500
These were some of the terms of the agreement which ended Reconstruction
What is that Reconstruction would come to an end and the Republicans would win the Presidency
500
Won the election of 1866
Who is U.S. Grant
500
This many votes are required to find a president guilty in an impeachment trial
What is two-thirds
500
This law intended to protect black Southerners and convicted many KKK members
What is the Klan Act of 1871