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Reconstruction Era

12–8 President Johnson’s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866, Chapter 12, African American history

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12?8 President Johnson?s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866 The Civil Rights Act was the first major piece of legislation to become law over a president?s veto. John- son?s veto message helped make the estrangement between Congress and the President irreparable. Johnson?s constitutional arguments induced Congress to enact the Fourteenth Amendment, which for- bade individual states to deprive citizens of the ?equal protection of the laws.? SOURCE: Richardson, ed., Messages and Papers, Vol. VI, p. 405ff. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 1866. To the Senate of the United States:?I regret that the bill, which has passed both Houses of Congress, entitled ?An act to protect all persons in the

History Alive! Chapter 11 Study Guide

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Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment Freedmen?s Bureau black codes Radical Republicans Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment Ku Klux Klan Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson Key Content Questions (3 points each ? these answers will be more than a sentence) Consult History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals and your reading notes to answer the following questions. 1. Discuss the ways in which former slaves exercised their rights in the early years of Reconstruction. 2. Describe economic changes in the South during Reconstruction.

History Alive! Chapter 11 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 11.06.16 Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment: This was the first of three Reconstruction-era amendments that freed slaves completely from their masters. Republicans in Congress pleaded with President Johnson to add the requirement that Southern states must grant freedmen the right to vote. Johnson, however, did not accept those pleas and said that white men alone should manage the South.

APUSH Brinkley Test Bank Ch. 15

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mAmerica: Past and Present, 9e (Divine et al.) Chapter 16 The Agony of Reconstruction 16.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) The term Reconstruction refers to the A) period immediately following the Civil War. B) the attempt to rebuild Atlanta. C) the Gettysburg struggle. D) the treatment of African Americans after the Emancipation Proclamation. E) the attempt to change Confederate ideas about slavery. Answer: A Diff: 1 Page Ref: 386 [Factual] 2) The escaped slave who captured a Confederate steamship and later went on to become a U.S. congressman was A) Robert Allen. B) Sojourner Truth. C) Robert Smalls. D) Frederick Douglass. E) Blanche K. Bruce. Answer: C Diff: 1 Page Ref: 386 [Factual] 3) A minimal Reconstruction policy was favored by

Frederick Douglass Speech Analyzes the Failures of Reconstruction, 1883

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Frederick Douglass (1883?) "The Serfs of Russia...Were Given Three Acres of Land"??? In this speech, given many years after Reconstruction ended, Douglass laments the development of sharecropping in the South, and links it to the failure of land confiscation in Reconstruction. Sharecropping arose as the freedmen continued to resist gang labor and conditions resembling plantation conditions.???

REA Online Practice US (20)

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PRACTICE TEST 2.0 01. The first nationality excluded from immigrating to the United States was the (A) Japanese (B) Mexicans (C) Chinese (D) Haitians (E) Ottoman Turks. 02. The basic viewpoint of the U.S. Supreme court in the 1920's was to (A) Uphold the anti trust laws (B) favor the position of organized labor (C) overturn progressive laws (D) support the government involvement in business (E) refuse to consider cases involving labor disputes. 03. The American Anti-slavery movement split in 1840 largely over the issue of (A) the participation of women (B) gradual vs. immediate emancipation (C) civil rights for free blacks in the North (D) Support for the black abolitionists (E) backing for Martin Van Buren for President.

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PRACTICE TEST 2.0 01. The first nationality excluded from immigrating to the United States was the (A) Japanese (B) Mexicans (C) Chinese (D) Haitians (E) Ottoman Turks. 02. The basic viewpoint of the U.S. Supreme court in the 1920's was to (A) Uphold the anti trust laws (B) favor the position of organized labor (C) overturn progressive laws (D) support the government involvement in business (E) refuse to consider cases involving labor disputes. 03. The American Anti-slavery movement split in 1840 largely over the issue of (A) the participation of women (B) gradual vs. immediate emancipation (C) civil rights for free blacks in the North (D) Support for the black abolitionists (E) backing for Martin Van Buren for President.

Practice Test 1.9

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PRACTICE TEST 1.9 01. The first nationality excluded from immigrating to the United States was the (A) Japanese (B) Mexicans (C) Chinese (D) Haitians (E) Ottoman Turks. 02. The basic viewpoint of the U.S. Supreme court in the 1920's was to (A) Uphold the anti trust laws (B) favor the position of organized labor (C) overturn progressive laws (D) support the government involvement in business (E) refuse to consider cases involving labor disputes. 03. The American Anti-slavery movement split in 1840 largely over the issue of (A) the participation of women (B) gradual vs. immediate emancipation (C) civil rights for free blacks in the North (D) Support for the black abolitionists (E) backing for Martin Van Buren for President.

Practice Test 1.2

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Practice Test 1.2 01. The Dred Scott decision held that a slave (A) could sue for his freedom in the courts (B) became free when transported to free territory (C) was private property when even in a free territory (D) was a citizen when in free territory (E) could not be transported when in a slave state. 02. Open-range ranching came to an end due to (A) overproduction of beef and declining prices (B) federal support for irrigated agriculture (C) the range wars between cattlemen and sheepherders (D) fencing the plains with barb wire (E) increase in cattle production in the Midwest and East.
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