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us history chapter 5 test
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11th Grade
08/31/2010

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between what years did the federal goverment carry out a program to repair the damages to the south and restore the southern states to the union?
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1865 and 1877
Term
what was the name of the program that repaired damages to the south and restored the southern states to the union?
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reconstruction
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what groups in the south faced hardship?
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-black southerners

-plantation owners

-poor white southerners

Term
what opprotunities did black southerners have?
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-work on plantations

-move to the cities

-go out west

Term
how did plantation owners face hardships?
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lost property
Term
what did plantation owners have to do to cover their depts?
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sell their property
Term
what did poor white southerners compete with freedmen for?
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work
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who is congressmen from lincolns own party that believed that civil was had been faught over the moral issue of slavery???
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radical republicans
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what did radical republicans that the reconstruction should be?
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a reconstuction of society to guarentee black people true equality
Term
what did radical republicans in congress want to require?
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that ex confederate men take an oath of past and future loalty
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what did the ex confederate oath mean?
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that they had to sear that they have never willingly borne arms agianst the US
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what act did lincoln let die in a pocket veto?
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wade-davis act
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what is a pocket veto?
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a type of veto a cheif executive may use agter a legislature has adjourned
Term
when is a pocket veto applied?
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when the cheif executive does not formally sign or reject a bill within the time period allowed to do so
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what was lincolns reconsruction plan called?
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10% plan
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what did lincolns reconsstruction plan and johnsons reconstruction plan have in common?
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-held elections

-held conventions

-pardon

-both lenient

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who became the new president after lincolns death?
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andrew johnson
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who was a onetime slave owner from TN who disliked rich plantation owners and found support among poor white southerners?
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andrew johnson
Term
andrew johnson was a democrat who became a....?
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republican
Term
true freedom would only come with _____________ ????
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economic independence
Term
black leaders wanted the goverment to...????
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redistribute southern land to former slaves who worked the land
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during the war,________ _______ did divide confinscated lands to 40 acre plots to give the black families???
Definition
general sherman
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