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18 Cards in this Set
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What did the freedom mean to the African Americans of the Sea Islands?
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It meant a future as independent farmers living free of white control.
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Lincoln's Reconstruction plan did not include what
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Pardons for high ranking military officers in the Confederacy
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The "Whiskey Ring" scandal undermined the _______ administration
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Grant
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The Wade-Davis Bill evidence of may Congressional Republicans' desire to
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Punish the South for the institution of slavery.
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Lincoln _______ the Wade-Davis bill.
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vetoed
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Which constitutional Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
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The Thriteenth Amendment
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Who was the first head of the Freedmen's Bureau?
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General Howard
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The Civil Rights act of 1866
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-defined Af Amer and all persons born in the US national citizens,
-defined rights of all citizens regardless of race, -prohibited state governments from depriving any citizen of these "fundemental rights" |
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Why did the Republicans deem the 14th amendment necessary so soon after passing the Civily Rights Act?
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Amendments became parmanant part of the Constitution.
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The 14th Amendment contained these provisions
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-declared all persons born or naturalized in the US as citizens
-all citinzens were entitled to equal protection under the laws of the state were they lived -states that denied adult male citizens, including Af Amer, the right to vote would be penalized by having their representation in Congress reduced -all high ranking former Confederates were prohibited from holding public office, unless pardoned -repudiated the Confederate debt (punishing those who lent $ to the Confederacy) & denied all claims for compensation by ex-slave owner |
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Northerners who settled in the South after the war were referred to as
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Carpetbaggers
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Whie Southerners who joined the Republican Party were referred to as
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Scalawags
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Which Constitutional amendment was intended to gurantee Af Amer males the right to vote?
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The 15th Amendment
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Who was the winner of the 1872 presidential election?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Which of the following states saw the reestablishment of conservative white government first?
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Georgia
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Who won the Presidential Election of 1876?
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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The resolution of the disputed election of 1876 was known as the
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Compromise of 1877
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The romanticized image of a virtuous South that was defeated by a ruthless Yankee North came to be known as the
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Lost Cause
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