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U.S. History
Chapter 12 Study Guide
1. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by ___________________________________________.
2. In the 1876 presidential election, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Democratic candidate
_____________________________________________________.
3. A former slave who became an abolitionist and adviser to President Andrew Johnson on race relations
was ________________________________________________________________________________.
4. Reconstruction referred to rebuilding ____________________________________________________.
5. What did the 13th Amendment do?
6. The Black Codes were written to ________________________________________________________.
7. Former Confederates called southern whites who had supported the Union cause and now were in
favor of Reconstruction were called _______________________________________________________.
8. When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the vice president was _____________________.
9. Although he had no political experience at all, Civil War hero _________________________ was
elected president in 1868.
10. ________________________________ was one of the first female millionaires in the United States.
11. Most African Americans in the New ____________________ had little opportunity to improve their
economic standing.
12. The _____________________________________ were written to increase segregation in the South.
13. Literacy tests and ____________________ were instituted by southern legislatures to deprive
African Americans of the right to vote.
14. To boost its ____________________ after the war, the South began to build factories and railroads.
15. The ______________________________ made it impossible for African American farmers to earn a
decent living.
16. African Americans voting for the first time in a presidential election supported the
____________________.
17. After President Andrew Johnson removed Secretary of War _________________________ from
office, the House voted to impeach the president.
18. Supporters of ____________________ called for breaking up the large plantations and dividing them
up between the slaves.
19. In 1868 President Andrew Johnson was ____________________ by the House but acquitted by the
Senate.
20. The ______________________________, passed by Congress in 1867, divided the South into five
military districts that were to be patrolled by the Union army.
21. In spite of ____________________, a growing African American middle class began to emerge in
some southern cities.
22. ______________________________ beat his opponent by only one electoral vote in the presidential
race of 1876.
23. _________________________________ was president of the United States after Andrew Johnson.
24. ____________________________ was the presidential candidate who defeated Samuel J. Tilden in
the election of 1876.
25. _______________________________________________ was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
26. Legislation passed by Congress so that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 could not be repealed was the
__________________________________________________.
27. The separation of the races is called _____________________________________________.
28. ___________________________________ were white and African American Republicans from the
northern United States who traveled south to attend state constitutional conventions
29. The ______________________________________led to the removal of federal troops in the South.
30. ________________ was the president who issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
31. President Lincoln’s offer of amnesty meant a full pardon to _________________________________.
32. The group known as the Redeemers were supporters of
___________________________________________________________________________________.
33. In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were not in contradiction to the
Fourteenth Amendment in ______________________________________________________________.
34. In 1868 the House tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson because
he_________________________________________________________________________________.
35. Some Radical Republicans insisted that African Americans be given the right to vote. One such
Republican was ___________________________________________________.
36. With President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, southern states were allowed to join the Union when
__________________________________________________________________________________.
37. What were the provisions of the Reconstruction plan drawn up by President Andrew Johnson?
38. What were the terms of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
39. What purposes did the Freedmen’s Bureau serve?
40. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the sharecropping system.
41. Describe the positive points and shortcomings of the Fifteenth Amendment.