Chapter 15

Question 1

Ten Percent Plan

Answer 1

From Lincoln

1. 10% of populace must pledge allegiance
2. A new civilian government would be formed

Question 2

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 2

From Radical Republicans. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner.

1. 50% of populace must pledge allegiance
2. Denial of suffrage
3. abolition of slavery
4. revocation of debts

Question 3

Johnson’s Plan

Answer 3

1. Amnesty to poor who pledged loyalty
2. State convention
3. Thirteenth ammendment

Question 3

Congress

Answer 3

1. Congress did not allow the newly elected people to hold office because they were southern
2. Johnson disagreed meanly and alienated republicans

Question 3

Civil Rights

Answer 3

Civil rights act could have been repealed so the 14th amendment was enacted

Question 4

Freemen’s Bureau

Answer 4

Headed by Union General O. Howard.

1. Rations, jobs, schools (150,000+)
2. The expansion allowed them to deal with the Black Codes

Question 4

Tenure of Office Act

Answer 4

Edwin Stanton was protected from the president by this act. It lead to a failed impeachment trial when he tried to impeach Edwin Stanton anyway.

Question 4

Scallywags

Answer 4

Because southern whites couldn’t vote, many northerners moved south and took up government office. They were extremely corrupt but managed roads, railroads, and schools.

Question 4

Sharecropping

Answer 4

Getting some crops in exchange for labor. Because it lead to taking on debt it could be technically considered worse than slavery. Tenant farmers owned their tools but rented their land, but they were also destitute generally.

Question 4

Violence

Answer 4

The KKK wore masks and killed people. The federal government eventually passed laws to get rid of them.

Question 5

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 5

Beat Horatio Seymour.

He passed the fifteenth amended that dealt with voting.

1. Credit Mobilier overbilled and then bribed with stock
2. James Fisk and Jay Gould almost gained control of the gold market
3. Secretary of War William Belknap took bribes for licenses
4. The Whiskey Ring involved Orville Babcock
5. Tammany Hall used Willaim Tweed to commit major fraud against NY city

Question 6

Liberal Republicans

Answer 6

Horace Greenly.

Joined with Democrats of 1872.

Question 7

Panic of ‘73

Answer 7

Partially the result of uncertainty over greenbacks, made worse by their economic policy around greenbacks

Question 8

Election of 1876

Answer 8

Democrats who called themselves Redeemers took away federal involvement in the south and reinstituted more black codes. They also passed the General Amnesty Act that allowed 150,000 more southerners to vote.

Republicans promoted General Rutherford B. Hayes for president.

Democrats promoted judicial reformer Samuel J. Tilden. State corruption (Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina) made it extremely difficult to determine who won the election.

The Compromise of 1877 recounted the votes in exchange for removing the last troops.