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Chapter 16
American Republic ch 16
Question | Answer |
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Compromised with Radical Republicans in order to maintain a working relationship with Congress | Andrew Johnson |
Remained in debt year after year | sharecroppers |
abolished slavery | 13th Amendment |
kept states from denying blacks the right to vote | 15th Amendment |
offer of a group pardon to southerners | Amnesty |
granted citizenship to blacks | 14th Amendment |
designed to keep freed slaves in subjection and prevent them from exercising their political rights | black codes |
won the disputed election of 1876 | Rutherford B Hayes |
refused to leave office as secretary of state | Edwin Stanton |
leader of Radical Republicans in the House | Thaddeus Stevens |
impeached in 1868 | Andrew Johnson |
negotiated the treaty to buy "Florida" | William Seward |
What bill did Congress pass to keep President Johnson from dismissing Radical Republican presidential appointments | Tenure of Office |
What 12 year period is usually considered to be the years of Reconstruction | 1865-1877 |
secret organization arose in the South frighten blacks and discourage them from voting after the Civil War | Ku Klux Klan |
Johnson's secretary of state | William Seward |
term used for slaves after the Civil War | freedmen |
federal relief agency was established to help the freed slaves | freedmen's bureau |
white southerners who supported radical Reconstruction | scalawags |
northerners who came south to assist in Reconstruction | carpetbaggers |
achievements by who in foreign affairs included purchasing Alaska, removing European rule in Mexica, making the Gadsden Purchase | Andrew Johnson |
Bourbon Reconstruction was characterized by | return of southern democrats to power in government |
objected to the extension of executive powers during the civil war, treatment of the south as erring brethren, Lincoln's 10% plan | Radical Republicans |
won presidential election of 1868 | Ulysses S Grant |
which amendment bar unpardoned confederates from voting or holding office, gave citizenship to blacks, eliminate the 3/5s compromise in the counting of the population | 14 Amendment |
The presidential election of 1876 | settled by a special electoral commission |
Reconstruction Act of 1867 | established military rule in the South |
President that had to deal with political corruption | Ulysses S Grant |
Know the circumstances of the impeachment found on pages 314-315 | |
What does solid south mean | ? |
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