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Created: 2007-10-03
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    • Side 3
    • What was the purpose of Lincoln's "ten percent plan"?
    • To entice rebellious states back into the Union.
    • What did the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 do?
    • The Wade-Davis Bill required fifty percent of the population to swear an "ironclad" oath saying that they had never supported the Confederacy.
    • What were the "Black Codes"?
    • The Black Codes forced the freed people into unfavorable labor contacts, controlled the hours and terms of their work, restricted their freedom of movement, and imposed strict penalties for vagrancy.
    • What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
    • The Reconstruction Act of 1867 removed all former Confederate states, except Tennessee, from the Union and placed them under temporary military rule.
    • What happened to Republican Reconstruction in the long run?
    • Republican Reconstruction failed.
    • What are "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"?
    • Carpetbaggers are Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction.
      Scalawags are Southern whites who joined the Republican Party.
    • The White League and the Knights of the White Camelia are both examples of....
    • American white supremacist groups.
    • What did the federal government do to halt lawlessness in the South?
    • The federal government sent Federal troops to the South.
    • What di the Fourteenth Amendment do?
    • The 14th amendment gave Blacks national citizenship.
    • What was the Compromise of 1877?
    • The Republicans traded a promise to leave the south to its ownown devices for an electoral victory for their candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes.
    • What was the Freedman's Bureau?
    • The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal Government established in 1865 to help negotiate the reestablishment of Southern agriculture.
    • Rather than working for wages what did blacks decide to work for?
    • A share of the crop they raised.
    • Which state was the first to reclaim its seats in the United States Congress?
    • Tennessee
    • What events caused Gen. Grant to declare martial law over western Tennsessee?
    • Fort Donelson and Nashville fell to the Union in Feb. of 1862.
    • Who did Lincoln appoint as military government?
    • Andrew Johnson.
    • What was surprising about Andrew Johnson?
    • He had once been a democrat and slaveowner.