Exam 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877

The Republican governor of Mississippi who asked Grant to send troops to control whites' violent intimidation of black voters in that state during the election of 1875 was ____________________.

Tennessee was the first ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in order to be "readmitted" to the union.

Examine the attempt to impeach President Andrew Johnson.Explore the various reasons that Congress wanted to impeach him (both implied and expressed)and the reasons for their ultimate success or failure.

The President could use federal troops to suppress resistance to federal law through the

The 1871 Treaty of Washington

During the 1866 congressional election campaign,Republicans made clear that any ex-Confederate state that ratified the Fourteenth Amendment would be considered "reconstructed" and that its representatives and senators would be seated in Congress.

The Fourteenth Amendment encouraged southern states to enfranchise blacks but did not force them to do so.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Freedmen's Bureau

The first state with a plan to eliminate black voting was which of the following?

In the 1876 presidential election the Democrat ____________________ appeared to have won the election when the results were first in.

All the following statements regarding carpetbaggers are true except

None of the postwar Southern state governments opposed the abolition of slavery.

Carpetbaggers held a disproportionate number of high political offices in southern state governments during Reconstruction.

____ was the presidential candidate nominated by both the Liberal Republicans and the Democratic Party in the election of 1872.

Under the U.S.Constitution,impeachment by the House removes an official from office.

Examine the attempts to help the recently freed former slaves.What were the goals of the federal government for these freed men and women? How successful was the government in achieving those goals?

IDENTIFICATIONS -Andrew Johnson

One of Grant's major problems as president was that he put too much trust in people under him.

Nearly all freed slaves continued to work for their former owners after the war.

White southerners' main complaint against the Freedmen's Bureau was that it was inefficient.