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APUSH: Chapter 15 - Reconstruction and the New South Review Questions: 1. General Oliver O. Howard ran the ________, an agency that established schools and helped provide basic services for former slaves following the Civil War. 2. Lincoln wanted ex-Confederate states admitted to the Union when ________ percent of a state’s white voters took a loyalty oath. 3. President Lincoln was assassinated by ________ at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865. 4. Presidential Reconstruction included plans put forward by both Presidents Lincoln and _____________. 5. State laws designed to restore slavery in all but name in the post-Civil War South were called the ________. 6. The Fourteenth Amendment offered the first constitutional definition of ________. 7. Another name for “Congressional” Reconstruction is ____________ Reconstruction. 8. The Tenure of Office Act was designed to protect the job of Secretary of War ________. 9. Many of the so-called scalawags were former Southern ________. 10. White men from the North who served as Republican leaders in the South were called __________. 11. The most numerous Republicans in the South were the ________. 12. After the Civil War, most black agricultural workers toiled as tenants of white landowners and were known as ________. 13. Ulysses S. Grant had become famous as a ____________ and elected president in 1868 and 1872. 14. Enemies of President Grant and “Grantism” were called ________ Republicans. 15. The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a leading investment banking firm, ________.

16. The Treaty of Washington provided for ________ with Britain over “Alabama claims.” 17. “Seward’s Folly” refers to the American purchase of ________. 18. Secret societies, like the ______________, used terror to frighten blacks from voting or exercising citizenship. 19. An end to Reconstruction was achieved by the ________ of 1877. 20. The last ________ were withdrawn from the South by President Hayes. 21. Democrats restored to power in the South were known variously as the “________” or the “Bourbons.” 22. Booker T. Washington outlined his basic philosophy in an 1895 speech that has come to be called the ________ Compromise. 23. In 1896 the Supreme Court declared that “separate but equal” in matters of race relations was constitutional, in the case of ________. 24. Ida B. Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South. 25. How did Lincoln’s plan differ from those of the Radical Republicans? 26. How did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln affect Reconstruction? 27. Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Did he deserve to be removed from office? 28. What did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution do? How successful was each in practice? 29. “The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” Explain this assessment by W. E. B. Du Bois of the Reconstruction era by offering the historical evidence that supports each of the three parts of the quote. 30. Describe “Jim Crow.”...