Chapter 12: Reconstruction and Its Effects

Democrats called those white Southerners who joined the Republican Party scalawags.

This led to economic depression and disputes over currency policies

House representative who was the leader of the Radical Republicans

Which word best describes Lincoln’s original plan for Reconstruction, Johnson largely followed?

This group strongly supported Reconstruction

Republican who became president in 1876 through a deal between Party leaders

the first African-American U.S. senator

president whose administration was plagued with scandal

The congressional leader of the Radical Republicans was

This allowed many former Confederates to vote and hold elective office.

Union general who promised freed slaves who followed his army “40 acres and a mule”

Democrats used this term to describe their return to power in the South.

president who favored the lenient Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction

The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for the

What made “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” citizens of the nation?

President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish

During Reconstruction, all of the following increased in the South except

D and R Party in Congress agreed & decided result of presidential election & end Reconstruction

Which of the following groups of Americans living in South tended to support Democratic Party?

Carpetbaggers left home & moved South, where they were scorned as dishonest business people

Democratic candidate for president in 1876 who won the popular vote but lost the election

Who was the first African-American U.S. senator?

secretary of war whose firing led to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment

A state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of

Thaddeus Stevens could be described as all of the following except

No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to the

Hiram Revels was the first African-American

president who vetoed important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation

Robert G. Fitzgerald was the first African American to win election as a U.S. Senator.

Democratic candidate for president 1876 election he won popular vote, failed to win presidency

The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to

During Reconstruction, the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to

This man was considered honest many people he appointed to office were dishonest and corrupt.

New York Tribune editor who ran against Grant in the 1872 presidential election

During Reconstruction, churches became principal institutions African American fully controlled