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History Chapter 12
Coach Early
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History
10th Grade
05/12/2014

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Cards

Term

What was the Senate's verdict

after the impeachment trial?

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Not Guilty

Term

When did Congress pass the

Reconstruction Act?

Definition

 

 

1867

Term

What was the main issue in the

1866 Congressional election?

Definition

 

 

 

Reconstruction

Term

What was a system in which workers farmed

land belonging to another in exchange

for a share of the crop?

Definition

 

 

Share cropping

Term

What was created by the U.S. government

in response to political problems and illiteracy?

 

 

Definition

 

 

Public School Systems

Term

How many military districts was the South

divided into?

 

Definition

 

 

Five

Term

What is the ability to run state governments 

without federal intervention?

Definition

 

 

Home Rule

Term

What amendment guaranteed the right to vote 

for former slaves and African-Americans?

Definition

 

 

15th Amendment

Term
In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
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1865

Term

What did some whites do as a result of not

accepting blacks as equals during Reconstruction?

Definition

 

 

Emigrated

Term

What was a white northerner who moved to the South

during Reconstruction called?

Definition

 

 

Carpet Bagger

Term

What act gave African-Americans citizenship and did not

allow states to pass "Black Codes" in the U.S?

Definition

 

 

Civil Rights Act

Term

What white supremists group killed important

reconstruction leaders and used violence to prevent

African-Americans from participating in politics and achieving economic independence?

Definition

 

 

Ku Klux Klan

Term

The use of intimidation against Republican

voters was used in Mississippi, South Carolina,

Louisiana and _________

Definition

 

 

Florida

Term

Who was impeached because he continued t veto

legislation designed to set-up Reconstruction in the South?

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Andrew Johnson

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