Reconstruction
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 This what william T. Sherman propsed in Special field Order 15 | 40 acres and a mule |
| This is what Abraham lincoln's proposal would have required before a former Confederate state could be admitted to the Union | 10% of voters would swear to accept Emancipation |
| During Lincoln's lifetme, two Republican politicians who believed the President's plan for Reconstruction was too lenient were | Wade Davis |
| This was the power that convinced Andrew Johnson that his plan for Presidential Reconstruction was constitutionally appropriate | Commander and Chief |
| The most prominent member of House Radical Republicans who advocated Congressional Reconstruction based on the plan propsed by those who opposed LIncoln during his lifetime was | Thaddeus Stevens |
| This is how the South solved its labor shortage problem after emancipation | Share- cropping |
| These were two questions clearly resolved by the outcome of the Civil War | Indivisble nature of the union and emanciaption of the slaves |
| This was the Northern General most responsible for the destruction of teh infrastructure of the South | William P. Sherman |
| After emancipation, many former slaves left the plantations simply because | they could--emancipation porclamation |
| This brought the end of Reconstruction | Disputed eletion Hayes (R) and Tildon(D) South chose hayes in order to remove the troop |
| This system was created to enforce separation of the races in the South after Reconstruction | Jim Crow Laws |
| These were two goals of the Freedmen's Bureau | - Education - Preparation for citizenship |
| These laws were passed after Reconstruction to keep the freemen tied to the land as sharecroppers and to prevent them from registering to vote | Black codes |
| This was the primary reason that so mayn African Americans registered to vote before 1876 | Protection of the Federal troops |
| The primary goal of Reconstruction was | Punish the South |
| This was why so mayn African American Senators and Members of the House of Representatives lost their seats in the elction following 1877 | 1877- troops left and nobody as protecting rights of blacks after reconstruction |
| These were two of the most prominent Radical Republicans during Reconstruction | Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumter |
| Firing this member of his cabinet led to Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial | Screatary of War- Edwin Stanton |
| These were the three Amendments propsed by Congress and ratified by the states in the wake of the Civil War | 13th, 14th, and 15th |
| This person propsed the Albany congress during the French and Indian War | Benjamin Franklin |
| The Amendment mad involuntary servitude uncontitutional | 13th |
| This Amendment gave the freedmen the right to vote | 15th |
| These were two ways Southern states managed to evade the right to vote promised to African Americans by Amdment to the Constitution | literacy test and poll tax |
| This is the promise of the 14th Amendment or equal protection of the law | due process and equal protection----no on ecan be denied |
| This was known as Seward's Folly or Seward's Icebox | Purchase of Alaska |
| This was the colonial region that produced tobacco and rice | The southern states |
| This was the colonial region that focues on fishing, ship building, and puritanism | New England colonies |
| This was the colonial region that had diverse populations and a diverse economy | Middle colonies |
| This was colonial region that initiated the practice of African Slavery to solve the problem of the labor shortage created by extensive cultivation of sugar cane | Carribean/ west indies |
| This was the goal of the KKK | Terrorize the blacks |
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