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AMH2020 Exam 1 questions well answered to pass
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AMH2020 Exam 1Carpet Baggers - correct answer ✔✔Derogatory term for Northerners who traveled south just to make
money off the Reconstruction. Their suitcases were usually made from carpet.
Used by opponents of Reconstruction to describe Northerners who moved to the South after the war (to
get rich or acquire political power)
Scalawags - correct answer ✔✔A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to
buy up land from desperate Southerners
(traitors to the South, stayed loyal to the union during the Civil War)
William T. Sherman - correct answer ✔✔A successful Union general who implemented the tactic of
"total war" in order to defeat the South.
Led successful military campaign to conquer Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Decimated
Georgia.
Field Order number 15 - correct answer ✔✔A mandate issued by General William T. Sherman that said
the Sea islands and the coastal region south of Charleston was to be divided into parcels of 40 acres for
individual freed families.
Sea Islands - correct answer ✔✔Lands that were issued to freed slaves and their families as a part of a
temporary plan granting each freed family forty acres of tillable land from this location.
Benjamin Wade - correct answer ✔✔Radical republican who endorsed woman's suffrage, rights for labor
unions, and civil rights for northern blacks. Critical of Abe Lincoln (R)
Henry Davis - correct answer ✔✔Republican Representative - Wade Davis Bill: states had to ban slavery
and take a loyalty oath to join the Union
, Wade-Davis Bill - correct answer ✔✔1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold
office for anyone who had fought for the South (why the South didn't want to come back into the Union)
Oath declaring they had never aided the federal states of America.
Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh.
Andrew Johnson - correct answer ✔✔17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's
assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached
Wanted the wealthiest slave holders to BEG to come back into the Union (General Amnesty by 1872)
Freedman's Bureau - correct answer ✔✔1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting
themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs
Black Codes - correct answer ✔✔Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by
southern states following the Civil War
Mississippi Plan - correct answer ✔✔1890 - In order to vote in Mississippi, citizens had to display the
receipt which proved they had paid the poll tax and pass a literacy test by reading and interpreting a
selection from the Constitution. Prevented blacks, who were generally poor and uneducated, from
voting.
Sharecropping - correct answer ✔✔After the Civil War former landowners "rented" plots of land to
blacks and poor whites in such a way that the renters were always in debt and therefore tied to the land.
Peonage - correct answer ✔✔the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is
discharged
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) - correct answer ✔✔19th President, ended reconstruction by removing
federal troops, disputed Tilden/Hayes election resulted in the Compromise of 1877
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