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| The Senate vote was 35 to 9 just ________ _________ shy of the two thirds neededd to convict JOhnson |
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| In some states AA's could only work as __________ or _______ __________. |
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| Republicans could control ________ ____________ if southerners were barred from congress. |
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| Republicans charged that Johnson's lenient Reconstruction plan had _______ black codes. |
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| To charge (public official) with misconduct in the office |
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| The civil Rights Act gave ________ to African Americans. |
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| This document guaranteed citizens equal protection of the law, that no sate could deprive any person of life, liberty or property without the due process of law. |
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| The president can be removed from office if _________ ________ of the senate found him guilty. |
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| The Republicans were also angered by southern _________ _________ against freedmen. |
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| what did they call the period following the 1866 election? |
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| radical reconstruction: another thing for the south: their reconstruction |
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| This African American writer describes some of the problems faced by the freedmen's beureau . |
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| In some states- AA had to sign a year____ |
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| Black codes kept freedmen from gaining ________&_____________ power. |
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| 1. How did many southern states prevent some freedmen from exercising their right to vote? |
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| They required voters to pay poll taxes and pass literacy tests. |
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| Under the sharecropping system, many farmers |
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| Reconstruction refers to the period in which |
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| Which southern state was the first to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment? |
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| One goal of the Radical Republicans was to |
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| break the power of southern planters |
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| Congress impeached President Johnson because members feared he would |
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| refuse to enforce Reconstruction laws. |
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| Reconstruction ended because |
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| northerners grew weary of trying to reform the South. |
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| What was one of the conditions in the Ten Percent Plan for former Confederate states to rejoin the Union? |
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| Slavery must be abolished in all southern states. |
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| Why did southerners refer to northerners who moved south as carpetbaggers? |
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| They moved to the South quickly and only brought a few items. |
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| The Reconstruction plan of President Johnson was |
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| Why did President Lincoln refuse to sign the Wade-Davis Bill? |
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| It was too harsh on the southern states |
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| Which of the following groups were called scalawags by many whites in the South? |
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| white southern Republicans |
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| In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court |
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| The black codes in the South allowed African Americans |
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| Why was the election of 1866 a disaster for Johnson? |
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| Republicans won majorities in both houses of Congress. |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution |
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| Granted citizenship to those born in the United States. |
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| The Freedmen's Bureau was established to |
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| give aid to former slaves. |
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| What group did white southerners form to help them regain power over African Americans? |
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| restored the right to vote to nearly all white southerners. |
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