AP US History Touart- American Pageant (Chapter 22) The Ordeal of Reconstruction
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ptouart on December 9, 2011
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Mr. Padron's AP United States History, Social Studies, AP US McGarvey 2012, Mr. Touart's AP US History Class
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 How would South be rebuilt, fate of the freedmen, how would south be reintegrated to the union, who would direct Reconstruction | According to the text what were the four major questions facing the nation following the Civil War? |
| Exodusters | What was the term for freedmen who migrated to Kansas and the west following the Civil War? |
| American Missionary Association | What private organization sent Northern white women south to serve as teachers to freed blacks? |
| Freedmen's Bureau | What was organized by the government to educate former slaves and distribute land to blacks? |
| General Oliver Howard | Who was responsible for administering the Freedmen's Bureau? |
| education | What was the Freedmen's Bureau's area of greatest success? |
| War Democrats | What political faction was Andrew Johnson from? |
| 10% Plan | What was the name of President Lincoln's Reconstruction proposal? |
| Wade-Davis Bill | What was the name of the stiff legislation "pocket vetoed" by President Lincoln that would have punished the South? |
| sharecropping | Under the Black Codes what form of farming did most former slaves have to accept in the South? |
| Civil Rights Act of 1866 | What legislation vetoed by Johnson was overridden in April 1866 that laid the foundation for black equality? |
| guaranteed civil rights for blacks, denied southern representation if black vote suppressed, repudiated Confederate debt, denied office to former Confederate officials | List the four components of the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| swing around the circle | What was the name of Andrew Johnson's failed attempt to drum up support in the congressional elections of 1866? |
| Thad Stevens | Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives? |
| prohibited denying suffrage on the basis of race | What is the content of the Fifteenth Amendment? |
| inserted male to protect voting rights | Why were feminists angry about the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| Ex parte Milligan | What Supreme Court decision ruled that the existence of military tribunals where civilian courts were was unconstitutional? |
| Force Bills (Enforcement Act) | What were passed by Congress to stop violence against blacks in the South in 1870 and 1871? |
| scalawags | What was the derisive terms for southern collaborators with Reconstruction? |
| carpetbaggers | What was the derisive terms for northern opportunists who moved to the South for exploitative purposes? |
| Tenure of Office Act | Under which 1867 law did Congress impeach President Andrew Johnson? |
| purchase of Alaksa | What was "Seward's Folly"? |
| Benjamin Wade | Who was the president pro tempore of the Senate who hoped to become president of the United States after Johnson's impeachment conviction? |
| Radical Republicans | What was the term for the Reconstructionists who favored keeping the South out of the federal government until a complete revolution was accomplished in the region? |
| Charles Sumner | Who was beaten in the Senate chamber before the Civil War and then became leader of the Senate Republicans during Reconstruction? |
| Ku Klux Klan | What was the secret organization that intimidated blacks and worked to restore white supremacy? |
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