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American History 1302
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Undergraduate 1
02/08/2012

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When did the Reconsturction Act begin?
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March 1867
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After white and African allies were formed in the south, regarding new soutern black voters, the 10 Cofederate states conisted of?
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735,000 African voters and 635,000 white voters
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Southern democrats referred to southern Republicans as
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Scalawags
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President Johnson did everything he could to block Congressional Reconstruction including:
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-replacing Republican generals with democrats

-encouraging southern whites to obstruct voters and the election of constitutional convention delegates

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What year did Presdident Johsnon make a fatal politcal mistake which removed him from office?
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Spring of 1868
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Johnson was removed from office because?
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He violated the Tenure of office act
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What was the Freedmen's Burea?
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a temporary agency set up to aid former slaves by providing relief, education, legal help, and assistance in obtatining land or employment
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The 14th amendment:
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guaranteed equal rights under the law to all Americans. Was first rejected by 12 southern states in 1867, but ratified by Radicals in July 1868.
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The 13th Amendment
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prohibited slavery in the U.S in January 1865

 

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The Tenure of Office Act
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requiring Senate approval for the removal of cabinet officers and other officials whose appointment had needed the consent of the Senate
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The effect of Johnson trying to discharge Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the only Radical in the cabinet:
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pro-impeachment forces gained in strength
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When was Johnson impeached?
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February 24, 1868
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How much of a fraction of votes by the Senate will it take to convict Johson before his removal of office?
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2/3
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Three reasons in the Constitution that admit impeachment:
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"treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors
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What was the Ku Klux Klan?
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A night riding white Chrisian terrorist organization which made its first appearance during the state constitutional election and debates
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The 15th Amendment
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prohibited states from denying the right to vote to anyone on the grounds of "race, color, previous condition servitude." It's purpose was to prevent reconstructed states from any future replication and to extend equal suffrage. Was granted on February 3, 1870
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In 1866 fromer abolitionists (men and women) formed what in order to work for Africans and Women's Suffrage?
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American Equal Rights Association (AERA)
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Describe Ulyesses S. Grant before becoming president
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general with no political experience, but commanded greater authority than anyone else in the country had. He opposed Johnson's Reconstruction policies, agreed to run for president in 1868 in order "to preserve in peace what my army won in war; liberty, for all Americans"
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KKK targeted:
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not only Africans but Repbulican Carpetbaggers
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Carpetbaggers
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term used by southerners to desribe white northerners who had relocated to the south for a chance to fufill their dreams for commercial and industrial development
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1870-1870 what 3 laws were enacted enforcing the 14th and 15th amendment?
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first two: interference with voting rights became a federal offfense and any attempt to deprvie another person of civil or political rights became a felony. third law: passed on 4/20/1871 referred to as Ku Klux Klan Act, gave president power to suspend the ret of habeas corpus and send federal trooops to suppress armed resistance to federal law
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Habeas Corpus:
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legal ret in order to bring a person or people to bring before a judge, it is used to protect an accused party from unlawful restrained
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Black Codes
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fall of 1865, excluded Africans from jury service, testifying against whites in court, banned interational marriage, punished Africans more sever than whites, could not lease or purchase land, authorized to take children without care at home
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Share Wages
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paying a collective of workers with shares of the crop at the end of the season
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Share Cropping
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when a family lived on and worked on a specific piece of land in return for share of crop produced on it, result of their dislike of share wages
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