FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH: CHAPTER 15

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH: CHAPTER 15

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Question 1: Freedmen's Bureau

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1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves and war refugees in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs.

Question 2: American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA)

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state-level organization led by Lucy Stone/Henry Blackwell. loyal to the Republican Party despite no inclusion of women's voting rights. AWSA leaders held out hope that once reconstruction has been settled, it would be Women's turn.

Question 3: Scalawags

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A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War. - an ancient scots-irish term for worthless animals

Question 4: Andrew Johnson

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17th President of the US, from Tennessee, V.P. when Lincoln was killed opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. 1st US impeached president, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.

Question 5: Blanche K. Bruce

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former slave, had been tutored on Virginia plantation by his white father. An American politician. Bruce represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate.

Question 6: convict leasing

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Notorious system, begun during Reconstruction, whereby southern state officials allowed private companies to hire out prisoners to labor under brutal conditions in mines and other industries.

Question 7: Laissez-faire

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Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.

Question 8: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments . Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan

• Anthony in 1869.

Question 9: Enforcement Laws

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passed in Congress in 1870 signed by U. S. Grant. freedmen rights under 14/15 amendments.Authorized fed prosecutions, military intervention, martial law to suppress terrorist the Enforcement Laws largely succeeded in shutting down Klan activities.

Question 10: Union League

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secret fraternal order where black/white Republicans joined forces in the late 1860s. educate blacks on civic life, buil schools/churches, represent African American interests. Republican candidates, protect blacks from white intimidation.

Question 11: Reconstruction Act of 1867

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passed by Congress which was vetoed by President Johnson. Was the process for readmitting southern states into the Union. This Act invalidated the state gov. formed under the Lincoln & Johnson plans and all the legal decisions made by those gov.

Question 12: Wade-Davis Bill

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an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy, required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath. Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh.

Question 13: civil rights act of 1875

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A law that required "full and equal" access to jury service and to transportation and public accommodations, irrespective of race.

Question 14: Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company

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private bank founded in 1865 that worked with Freedmen's Bureau/Union army across the South.economic dev.of the newly emancipated African-American communities. June 1874, bank failed, Congress refused 61,000 depositors, including many African Americans.

Question 15: Classical Liberalism

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the philosophy of John Locke and other advocates of the protection of individual rights and liberties by limiting government power. free trade, small government, low property taxes, and limitation of voting rights to men of education and property

Question 16: Charles Sumner

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leader of the Radical republicans in the Senate from Massachusetts and was in the senate. His two main goals were breaking the power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote. was beaten by preston brooke

Question 17: Fourteenth Amendment

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A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

Question 18: Nathan Bedford Forrest

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confederate General that may have been one of the most respected cavalrymen of the Civil War. was a slave trader, and after the war he became one of the first Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 19: Minor v. Happersett

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Supreme Court decision in 1875 that suffrage rights were not inherent in citizenship and not granted by the 14th Amendment, Women were citizens, the Court ruled, but state legislatures could deny women the vote if they wished.

Question 20: National Woman Suffrage Association

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suffrage group a federal level led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan

• Anthony stressed the need for women to lead organizations on their own behalf. focused on

women's rights and took up the battle for a federal women's suffrage amendment.

Question 21: Slaughter House cases

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A group of decisions begun in 1873 in which the Court began to undercut the power of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect African American rights.

Question 22: Carpetbaggers

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northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction - self seeking interlopes who carried all their property in cheap suitcases called carpetbags