IB US History HL - Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)

Southern States

Southern States

________ limited black votes which led to former confederates being elected to congress.

Troops

What were sent from the Union army to ensure everything went as planned? Answer with a single words or term.

Carpetbagger

________- A term for a Northern Republican who wants to take advantage of the south, they would take all their belongings south in bags made of carpet.

Johnson

________ granted full amnesty to past and future crimes regarding the Civil War.

Scalawag

________- Term for a white southerner who joins the Northern republican party for financial or political gain.

Southern whites

Troops were sent from the Union army to ensure everything went as planned. ________ got angry as they were now on the same level as black people, they were both in a "poor equality.

Congress

________ impeached Johnson in 1868 after finding his actions an abuse of power.

President Johnson

________ vetoed both, but congress overturned.

Whatever congress

________ decides is.

Johnsons leniency

________ created a rift between him and congress.

Radical Reconstruction

________- Began in 1867, Ulysses S. GRant is elected in 1868.

RA

Reconstruction Act (________) of 1867. The ________ divided the South into 5 military districts.

Freedmand Bureau

________ aimed to help freed slaves and refugees of war.

Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson

________ is elected president.

Johnson

________ believed in states rights but saw slavery as a national issue.

Southern states

________ limit black vote with poll taxes and literacy tests.

Johnson

________ removed the secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, over a disagreement on military districts.

Johnson

________ was not an abolitionist, he was a unionist and initially joined the senate to stops states from seceding.