Reconstruction Review

What was Lincoln's attitude/plan for the south (in general terms)

• Required a large percent of southerners to agree to rejoin the Union

• Was harsh in his attempt of reuniting the South

• Was Lenient toward the reunion of the South to the Union

• Required written constitutions to include all of the reconstruction amendments 14,15, and 16

President Johnson had a _______________ reconstruction plan as Lincoln.

• Different

• 20%

• Harsh

• Similar

Someone who wanted to free the slaves were considered...

• Rebels

• Abolitionists

• Confederates

• Yankees

Andrew Johnson is known to be the first president to do what?

• be impeached

• be assassinated

• be a Southerner

• be a Republican

What was the law that President Andrew Johnson violated?

• Tenure in office act

• Citizenship Amendment #13

• Reconstruction Quartering Act

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

By impeaching the president in 1868, what branch of government was being limited?

• Legislative

• Executive

• Judicial

• Congressional

What is the Separation of Powers?

• the division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from overpowering the others

• The right of Congress to bring a 2/3 vote to impeach a president in the Senate

• The right of Congress to bring up charges against a president in the House of representatives.

• The right of the people to destroy a government that is corrupt

What did the Radical Republicans want for the South after the Civil War?

• To rebuild the south in the reconstruction era

• To add the railroads needed to make cotton come to the North for industry

• To forgive the south for the war in a lenient way

• To punish the south for causing the war

What was Lincoln's Plan called for Reconstruction?

• 10 percent plan

• Lenient admission

• Civil Rights Act of 1877

• Congressional Reconstruction

What is John Wilkes Booth known for?

• Overthrowing a Confederate arsenal in Harpers Ferry in an attempt to free the slaves

• A vigilante abolitionist that caused riots in Bleeding Kasas

• Shooting President Abraham Lincoln

• Promising to end Reconstruction for his candidacy for President in 1876