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According to Lincolns plan for reconstruction: what were the requirements that the states had to meet inorder to rejoin union with full voting power?
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1. Abolish Slavery
2. Education for former slaves 3. Ten Percent plan (if 10% of eligible voters take union loyalty oath) |
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why didnt Lincolns requirements for reconstruction not implemented?
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The requirements that lincoln had proposed were not implemented due to his assasination.
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What was tolerance measures of Linconls plan for reconstruction?
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1) No execution of confederates
2) Possibility of compensation to slave owners for loss of slaves |
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Lincolns plan was interperted differently, what were the two interpretations caused by the Republican party divide?
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1. moderate conservative view:
2. Radical view: |
1.Linocolns position, reconstruction should be soft, swift, mild.
2. who wanted to punish confederates & take away their voting right and political power. Also give FULL civil liberties to former black slaves. Treat southerners like a conquered people in conquered land. |
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moderate conservative view
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Linocolns position, reconstruction should be soft, swift, mild.
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Radical view
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who wanted to punish confederates & take away their voting right and political power. Also give FULL civil liberties to former black slaves. Treat southerners like a conquered people in conquered land.
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Name 3 major prominent radicals:
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1. Thaddeus Stevens (from pensilvania)
2. Charles summner (cane incident) 3. Benjamin Wade (from ohio) |
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Tell me about Lincolns assasination, who did it and why? where, and when,how? the effects of His death.
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John Wilkes Booth; 26yr old racist and southern sympathizer was against newly freed slaves voting rts. He went to ford Theatre in Washington, D.C on April 14, 1865 and assinated Lincoln, yet not only for personal reasons the assasination was part of a larger plot to destroy U.S Govt. Lincoln died on April 15, 1865. Because of Lincolns death Reconstruction changes.
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American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at _____ Theatre, in ________, D.C., on April 14, 18_5.
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Andrew Johnson as the president preceding Abraham Lincolns assasination took charge of Presidential Reconstruction what did he & not favor?
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1. Johnson favored: swift, re-union & considered southern states to have never left the union
2. He did not favor: 13th Amendment (abolshed slavery) |
He is consistently ranked by historians as being among the worst U.S. presidents.[
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Who was the president preceding Lincolns assasination?
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Andrew Johnson
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Describe 4 major characteristics of the 14th amendment
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1. made blacks citizens under federal protection
2. prohibits states from depriving life, liberty or property without "Due Process" 3. Insists on "Equal protection under the laws" 4. Designed to counter the "Black codes" |
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the 14th amendment was designed to counter "black codes' or Jim Crow laws what were they?
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The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to limit the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.
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gave the freedmen second class status
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what was Andrew Johnsons view on slavery?
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He opposed slavery, but he wanted stated to end it, not the federal government.
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What was unique about Johnsons belief in states rights?
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He believed in states rights but he didnt believe in the states right to succeed the country.
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True or False: Johnson pardoned confederates and vetoed Civil Rithts Bills (including freemens Bureau, Bill)
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True
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True or false: The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 while charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, a law enacted by Congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto, but he was acquitted by a single vote in the Senate.
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True!
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What are the 3 main (acts)of the congressional reconstruction act of 1867?
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1. Military reconstruction act -
2. command of the army act- 3. Tenure of office act |
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what were the effects fo the military reconstruction act?
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the south is under martial law
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closely watched ....
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command of the army act-
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presidential militarty decisions were not enforced unless approved by head general.
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Tenure of office act
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prohibits president (Johnson) from fireing cabinet members without senate approval.
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Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached?
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He was impeached for violating the Tenure of office act.
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Eventhough President Johnson was impeached why wasnt he kick out of office?
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He was one vote shy of 2/3 necesarry for removal.
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