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16 Cards in this Set
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What was the purpose of Lincoln's "ten percent plan"?
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To entice rebellious states back into the Union.
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What did the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 do?
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The Wade-Davis Bill required fifty percent of the population to swear an "ironclad" oath saying that they had never supported the Confederacy.
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What were the "Black Codes"?
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The Black Codes forced the freed people into unfavorable labor contacts, controlled the hours and terms of their work, restricted their freedom of movement, and imposed strict penalties for vagrancy.
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What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed all former Confederate states, except Tennessee, from the Union and placed them under temporary military rule.
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What happened to Republican Reconstruction in the long run?
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Republican Reconstruction failed.
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What are "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"?
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Carpetbaggers are Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
Scalawags are Southern whites who joined the Republican Party. |
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The White League and the Knights of the White Camelia are both examples of....
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American white supremacist groups.
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What did the federal government do to halt lawlessness in the South?
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The federal government sent Federal troops to the South.
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What di the Fourteenth Amendment do?
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The 14th amendment gave Blacks national citizenship.
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What was the Compromise of 1877?
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The Republicans traded a promise to leave the south to its ownown devices for an electoral victory for their candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes.
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What was the Freedman's Bureau?
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The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal Government established in 1865 to help negotiate the reestablishment of Southern agriculture.
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Rather than working for wages what did blacks decide to work for?
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A share of the crop they raised.
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Which state was the first to reclaim its seats in the United States Congress?
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Tennessee
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What events caused Gen. Grant to declare martial law over western Tennsessee?
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Fort Donelson and Nashville fell to the Union in Feb. of 1862.
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Who did Lincoln appoint as military government?
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Andrew Johnson.
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What was surprising about Andrew Johnson?
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He had once been a democrat and slaveowner.
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