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20 Cards in this Set
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President Lincoln's reconstruction plan, the 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, offered?
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full pardons to ex-rebels who would denounce secession and accept the abolition of slavery.
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By the terms of President Lincoln's reconstruction plans, former Confederate states would be allowed back into the Union when?
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10 percent of a state's voting population took an oath of allegiance.
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The Wade-Davis bill differed from Lincoln's plan for reconstruction by
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requiring that at least half the voters in a former rebel state take the loyalty oath before commencing reconstruction.
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Freedmen were very unhappy that the new labor regime imposed by the military during the Civil War
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did not provide them with their own land.
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In December 1865, Republican legislators argued that President Johnson's reconstruction program had
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achieved political reunification but sacrificed black rights.
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During his time as a congressman and senator from Tennessee, President Johnson
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supported traditional Democratic causes.
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The 1866 Civil Rights Act was extraordinary in that it sought to
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expand black rights and federal authority.
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In April 1866, congressional Republicans achieved a historic first in American history when they
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overrode presidential vetoes of major legislation.
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The Fourteenth Amendment's provisions for voting rights
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gave Congress the right to reduce the representation of states that withheld suffrage from part of their adult male population.
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President Johnson's response to the Fourteenth Amendment was to
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advise Southerners to reject the amendment.
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In the long run, the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment meant that
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Republicans could ignore the issue of black equality.
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The Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed that suffrage rights could not be denied on account of race, was passed in large part because
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Republicans felt it would give them a partisan advantage.
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In the late 1860s, the majority of southern Republicans were
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African Americans.
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For the most part, native Southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War supported
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public schools and economic opportunity.
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Ex-slaves wanted to make personal decisions without white interference, such as whether or not
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women and children should labor in the fields.
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Sharecropping was different from the military system of wage contracts insofar as it
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allowed blacks more freedom.
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Once he gained office, President Grant was notable for his
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naive loyalty to corrupt advisors.
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In the 1872 presidential election, Democrats endorsed the anti-Grant Liberal Party because the new party
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had a policy of "home rule" for the South.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 outlawed racial discrimination in
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transportation, public accommodations, and juries.
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The impasse in the 1876 presidential election was broken by the Compromise of 1877, in which Democrats agreed to support Rutherford B. Hayes's inauguration in exchange for the
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withdrawal of all federal troops in the South.
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