Chapter 12: Reconstruction and Its Effects

House representative who was the leader of the Radical Republicans

President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish

During Reconstruction, the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to

During Reconstruction, churches became principal institutions African American fully controlled

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

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

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

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

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

president whose administration was plagued with scandal

This led to economic depression and disputes over currency policies

president who vetoed important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation

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

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

the first African-American U.S. senator

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

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

Thaddeus Stevens could be described as all of the following except

The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to

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

The congressional leader of the Radical Republicans was

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

This group strongly supported Reconstruction

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

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

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

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

president who favored the lenient Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction

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

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

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

Hiram Revels was the first African-American

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

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