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35 Cards in this Set
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what were the general golas of reconstrucion?
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phyisical and political
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what were the three main reconstruction plans?
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Johnson, Radical Republican, and Lincon
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who were scalawags?
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whtie southerners who joined the republican party
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who were carpetbaggers?
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northerners who looked for political oppertunitys in south
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why did carpetbaggers move south?
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they looked for political oppertunities
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what is the 13th amendment?
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abolished slavery
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what is the 14th amendment?
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defined citizen ship and civil rights
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what is the 15th amendment?
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black male suffrage
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what was the amnesty act of 1872?
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allow former confederate leaders to vote and hold office
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what was the objective of the Ku Klux Klan?
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to return south to white mans rule
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what wsa a trnant farmer?
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a farmer who rents/lives on land
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what is a sharecropper?
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people who lived on land and grew crops to pay for it
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why was sharecropping so bad?
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because it slowly pushed share croppers back in to slavery because they couldnt grow enought to pay for dubts
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what did the election of 1876 have to do with the ending of reconstruction?
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it got ride of Johnson
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how did Andrew Johnson become president?
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Lincon was shot
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what were the objectives of Johnsons reconstruction plan?
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fix south
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what was the freedmans buro?
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helped blacks transition from slavery to freedom
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what is a veto?
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when the president denies a new law
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what is a veto override?
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when congress goes above the president adn passes a law anyway
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what is impeachment?
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when you kick the president out of office
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what is teh Tenure of Office Act?
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banned president from firing certin appointed officals with out senates consent
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what did the tenure of pffice act have to do with Johnsons impeachment?
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in 1868 he tested the act by firing secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton
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what was the formal name given to the Radical Republican's reconsturction plan?
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The Reconstruction Act
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what were the components of the Radical Republicans plan?
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register votes and new government
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what created tension between the settlers and the western natives?
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rail road going west
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what was the Ft. Laramie treaty?
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gave US rights to build more roads and forts on the plaines. in return US made payments to tribes for 50 years. also defined tribs hunting frounds.
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what were the Medican Lodge Treaties?
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provided for new reservations in the Indain territory
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how big was a town ship?
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6 miles by 6 miles
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how many acres are in a section?
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640 acres
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what was the homested act of 1862?
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any citizen or imagrent who planed to become citizen could claim 160 acres of public land
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why did Red Cloud go to war?
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in struggle for land natives were rarely successful for long
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what did "ghost dancing" have to do with the massacare at Wounded knee?
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solders tryed to get indains to stop "ghost dancing" and it caused fighting
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what was George Custer trying to do when he and his men got massacred at Little Big Horn?
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ordering tribes onto their reservations
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what were the thress main reasons why settlers emigrated to the west?
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rail roads
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what was the Transcontinental Railroad
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rail roads the go from on side fo the country to the other
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