Chapter 22
1.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to
finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wound, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and
orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Who stated the above quotation? When was it stated? What was meant by the first three lines (With malice toward…bind up the
nation’s wounds)? ______________________________________________________________________________________
2.
Why was Jefferson Davis released from a Virginia prison shortly after the Civil War? _________________________________
3.
What punishment did Southern leaders face following the Civil War? ______________________________________________
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4.
When was Jefferson Davis’s citizenship finally restored? ________________________________________________________
5.
“Hell has laid her egg, and right here it hatched” describes what cities situation after the Civil War in the South?
________________ Who was most responsible for this damage? __________________________________________
6.
In what year will the seceded states produce as large a cotton crop as it did in 1860? ____________________
7.
What amount of money was lost by the planter aristocracy when their slaves were granted their freedom? __________________
8.
Which two legal bodies did Southerners recognize as the only ones which could grant slaves their freedom?_________________
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9.
A great migration of African-Americans from 1878 to 1880 (twenty-five thousand) moved from Louisiana, Texas, and
Mississippi to which state? _____________________ (called exodusters)
10.
What became the focus of the black community life in the years following emancipation? ___________________
11.
According to a North Carolina education society what was going to be considered the first proof independence? _____________
12.
Which group of people came to help educate the newly freed slaves in the South? _____________________________________
13.
What governmental agency was created to help the overwhelmingly unskilled, unlettered, without property or money, and with
scant knowledge of how to survive as fee people? _______________________________________
14.
What was this government agency supposed to provide for the former slaves and white refugees? ________________________
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15.
Which was the most successful? ___________________________
16.
What great achievement was Oliver O. Howard known for? _______________________________________________
17.
What promise by William Sherman in Special Field Order No. 15 was taken erroneously by many freed slaves as a promise by
the US government that it was going to deliver what to them? (hint: name of Spike Lee’s film company)
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18.
Who was somewhat responsible for the inaction by the Freedmen’s Bureau? _________________________
Why? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
19.
What was unique about Andrew Johnson becoming President that was different from former presidents? _________________
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20.
What was Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction? ____________ Explain _____________________________________________
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21.
What did the Radical Republicans propose as their plan for reconstruction? ________________ and _____________________
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22.
What was the bill called that tried to implement the Radical Republican plan for reconstruction? ________________________
23.
What happened to that bill? Explain ________________________________________________________________________
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24.
How was Congress’s opinion different from Lincoln’s perception of the South? _____________________________________
25.
Why was this difference important concerning reconstruction? ___________________________________________________
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26.
What plan for reconstruction did Andrew Johnson favor? _______________________________________________________
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27.
What was the purpose of the southern “Black Codes”? _________________________________________________________
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28.
When most Black Codes were repealed, what type of lifestyle did thousands of impoverished former slaves fall into?
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29.
What will shock and disgust many Republicans in Congress after the Civil War? ____________________________________
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30.
What acts was passed which allowed for the establishment of agricultural colleges? _____________________ (know this)
31.
What great transportation project was started during the Civil War? ____________________________________________
32.
Why did many Republicans raise angry voices in when there was a full counting of the free blacks in the South?
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33.
What did Andrew Johnson announce on December 6, 1865 concerning rebellious states? _____________________________
34.
What Bill will be passed by Congress in March 1866, but later vetoed by Johnson? __________________________________
35.
How did the Bill become law? _____________________________________________________________
36.
Even though nullification was “dead” why did Congress following through with the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
which mirrored the Civil Rights Bill of 1866? ________________________________________________________________
37.
What were the 4 aspects of the 14th Amendment according to the textbook?
1. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
38.
What were the election results of the 1866 Congressional election? _______________________________________________
39.
Who led the Radical Republicans in the US Senate? ___________________________________________________________
40.
Who led the Radical Republicans in the US House of Representatives? ____________________________________________
41.
What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do to the South? __________________________________ and _________________
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42.
How did the Radical Republicans help bring about black suffrage in the South? ______________________________________
43.
What group was disappointed with this Amendment? _________________ Why? ____________________________________
44.
Which great black leader said that this amendment must address black needs 1 st? ______________________________
45.
What principle did the SCOTUS case Ex parte Milligan (1866) establish? ___________________________________________
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46.
Who were the “bluebellies” in the South? _____________________________________________________
47.
Who were the Southern “Redeemers”? _______________________________________________________________________
48.
How many years separate black suffrage from women’s suffrage? ________________________________
49.
Between 1868 and 1876, how many black men were elected to the House and Senate? ________
50.
What was the name of the first black US Senators from Mississippi? ___________________ and ______________________
51.
What was meant by the Southern term “scalawag”? ___________________________________________________________
52.
What was meant by the tern “carpetbaggers”? ________________________________________________________________
53.
What group was founded in Tennessee in 1866? _____________________________
54.
What Acts will be passed in 1870 and 1871 to counteract the group in question #55? _______________________________
Who was POTUS when these acts were signed into law? _______________________________________
55.
How did the Tenure of Office Act limit the president’s power? ________________________________________________
Why was this Act passed? _____________________________________________________________________________
56.
Whom did Andrew Johnson dismiss in “violation” of this Act? ___________________________________________________
57.
What was Congress’s reaction to this violation? ________________________________________
58.
Who has the power to impeach the president? __________________________________________
59.
Once the POTUS is impeached who then tries POTUS? ___________________ What msut be the vote total in order to remove
POTUS from office? _______________________________________________________
60.
Who is the trial judge in an impeachment hearing? _______________________________
61.
Why was President Johnson Impeached? _____________________________________________
62.
Was Johnson convicted? _______ Saves by ______________________________
63.
Why was President Clinton impeached in 1998? ________________________________________________
64.
Was President Clinton convicted? ________________________________________________________________________
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65.
What is better known as “Seward’s folly”? __________________________
66.
How much was the purchase? ____________________________________________
67.
Why did the purchase take place? __________________________________________________________________________
68.
According to the text, despite good intentions by Republicans, the Old South was in many ways was more ________________
than __________________?