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Name: _________________________________ Period:________ Unit 6 CHAPTER 16: The Crises of Reconstruction 1865-1877 I. TRUE OR FALSE: Mark the following true or false – if the statement is false, correct it to make it true. 1. __F__ Lincoln’s reconstruction plan required 50% of the voters in the Southern states had to take an oath of loyalty to the Union and accept emancipation before that state could re-enter the Union. 2. ____Congress revealed its approach to Reconstruction by passing the more punitive Wade-Davis Bill, but President Lincoln pocket vetoed it. 3. ____Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson was added as the Vice-Presidential candidate on the Republican (National Union) ticket in 1864 to broaden Lincoln’s support. 4. ____The Johnson Plan of Reconstruction required the former Confederate states to proclaim secession illegal, repudiate the Confederate debts, and ratify the 13th Amendment. 5. __F__Seven former Confederate states adopted black codes to guarantee property rights and loosen racial segregation laws for all former slaves. These codes revealed white southern intentions to cooperate with Reconstruction. 6. ____President Johnson vetoed the congressional attempt to extend the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau, but Congress overrode the veto. 7. __F__President Johnson signed the 1866 Civil Rights Bill, convincing the moderate and Radical Republicans that Johnson would cooperate with them. 8. ____The Fourteenth Amendment was written to more clearly define the civil rights of citizens, including African Americans. It also contained the first use of the word “male” in the Constitution. 9. __F__Johnson vetoed the Tenure of Office Act, citing his belief that it was unconstitutional. His argument convinced enough congressmen to go along with him so that the veto was not over-ridden. 10. ____Impeachment charges were brought against Johnson after he fired Secretary of War Stanton. 11. __F__The Radical Republicans fell five votes short of the necessary 2/3rds majority needed to successfully impeach the president. Several Republicans sided with democrats opposed to conviction. 12. ____Ex-Confederate states were compelled to allow black men to vote as a prerequisite for readmission to the Union under the Reconstruction Act of 1867 even though most of the northern states did not grant blacks the vote. 13. ____The Republicans in the late 1860s relied on the votes of the newly enfranchised former slaves. 14. ____Susan B. Anthony argued that both the 14th and 15th Amendments did not help women’s rights. 15. __F__Scalawags were Northerners who came south during the Reconstruction period to exploit the opportunities in the defeated ex-Confederacy. 16. __F__The crop lien system usually made it possible for freedmen to overcome indebtedness because the tenant could pay for their supplies and rent with the profits from the sale of their crops. 17. ____Grant was elected to the presidency in 1868, but he proved to be a passive president who tolerated fraud and bribery in his administration, leading to the term “Grantism” to describe corruption. 18. ____Critics of Grant’s party leadership formed the Liberal Republicans to challenged Grant’s reelection as president in 1872. 19. ____The intent of the 14th Amendment was undermined by the Supreme Court’s doctrine of duel citizenship which stated that the amendment protected national citizenship, NOT rights under state citizenship. 20. ____The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Reconstruction as President Hayes was elected and Federal troops responsible for enforcing the new rights of Freedmen were withdrawn. Name: _________________________________ Period:________ Unit 6 CHAPTER 16: The Crises of Reconstruction 1865-1877 II. IDENTIFICATION: Supply the correct identification for each item. 1. He was the Radical Republican leader in the Senate who demanded harsh treatment of the South. He was once beaten nearly to death by Preston Brooks. _____Charles Sumner______ 2. This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States. ___13th___ 3. These laws passed in many southern states during Presidential Reconstruction barred former slaves from owning land or joining certain professions. _____Black Codes_________ 4. This agency was set up by Congress to provide the former slaves with relief, rations, medical care, education and employment assistance, making the transition to freedom easier. __Freedmen’s Bureau _ 5. This law was later elevated to become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Civil Rights Act of 66_ 6. This legislation invalidated state governments formed under Lincoln and Johnson and divided the former Confederacy into five military districts. __Reconstruction Act of 1867________ 7. The law that Andrew Johnson violated when he fired Secretary of War Stanton. Tenure of Office Act_ 8. The name given by the former Confederates to those Southerners who cooperated with the Republicans in Reconstruction. ___Scalawags________ 9. The Federal law passed by Congress to control the KKK and end the campaign of violence against former slaves. ___Enforcement Act (3rd)___________ 10. This labor system was established in the South during Reconstruction. Former slaves traded their labor for a portion of a farm’s output. ____Sharecropping__________ 11. The corrupt city political boss of New York who headed Tammany Hall. Thomas Nast made him a target of many political cartoons. ______Boss William Tweed_______ 12. The press mocked the purchase of Alaska, calling it this. ___Seward’s Ice Box_____ 13. He was the Liberal Republican candidate for President in 1872. The former newspaperman lost the election and his life shortly after the election. ___Horace Greeley_________ 14. This economic disaster resulted in business and bank failures during a 5-year depression. _Panic of 1873______ 15. This political party was dedicated to keeping unbacked currency in circulation. They hoped that “easy money” would make payment of debts easier. _____Greenback Party_________ 16. These 1873 Supreme Court cases involved a business monopoly, not the rights of freedmen, but the cases had far-reaching implications for the civil rights of freedmen. ____Slaughterhouse cases___ 17. This was the term used by Democrats to describe their return to power in the South. _Redemption__ 18. This term refers to the 4,000 African-Americans who left the deep South in 1879 to start homesteads in Kansas. ___Exodusters____ 19. He was the New York lawyer and political reformer who was the candidate for the Democratic Party in 1876. ___Samuel Tilden_______ 20. He was the candidate for the Republican Party in 1876. ___Rutherford B. Hayes______