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| After Lincoln was assassinated, who became President? | Andrew Johnson |
| What was the readmitting and rebuilding of Southern states after the Civil War? | Reconstruction |
| What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction? | the Ten Percent Plan |
| Who were the Congressmen that wanted to punish the South? | Radical Republicans |
| Who led the Radical Republicans group? | Thaddeus Stevens |
| The Radicals believed who should be in charge of Reconstruction? | Congress |
| What act did the Radical Republicans want to pass? | Wade-Davis Act |
| How did Lincoln handle the Wade-Davis Bill? | with a pocket-veto (he refused to sign it) |
| The former slaves were known as the? | Freedmen |
| What was designed to help ex-slaves get jobs, education, & general assistance? | Freedmen's Bureau |
| This was just being a step-up from sharecropping....they rented their land from the old landowner.... | Tenant farmer |
| For awhile, with programs est. by the Freedmen's Bureau, ex-slaves could receive.... | "40 Acres and a mule" |
| What granted freedmen all the benefits of citizenship & promised the courts would uphold these rights? | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| Which Amendment outlawed slavery? | 13th Amendment |
| What declared that citizenship would be the same in all states? | 14th Amendment |
| What placed the Southern States under military rule? | the 1867 Reconstruction Act |
| To make sure their radical friends & allies couldn't be fired, what did Congress pass that said the Pres. couldn't dismiss any Cabinet member w/out the approval of the Senate? | Tenure of Office Act |
| When Pres. Johnson tried to remove the Sec. of War from office, Congress charged him w/violating the..... | Tenure of Office Act & they began impeachment proceedings against him |
| What stated that no American could be denied the right to vote? | 15th Amendment |
| Who were the Northerners that moved to the South during Reconstruction? | Carpetbaggers |
| What was the Southern term for a white Southern Republican? | Scalawag |
| One of the post-war protest groups was the? | Ku Klux Klan |
| What event officially ended Reconstruction? | the Compromise of 1877 |
| After the Civil War & Reconstruction, the South solidly became..... | Democratic |
| Whites who returned to power in state legislatures in the South in 1878 were called what? | the Redeemers |
