USHC Unit 3 Section 2 #2 - Wilson HS

Front

What does it mean to charge a public official with a wrongdoing?

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Impeach

Front

Andrew Johnson was impeached for impeding Congressional Reconstruction and violating the Tenure in Office Act.

Back

True

Front

During Reconstruction, African Americans politically prospered with the power to vote and hold political offices.

Back

True

Front

What group of African Americans migrated westward after the Civil War, often to locations like Kansas, to seek a new life away from the South?

Back

Exodusters

Front

What officially ended slavery in the United States? Options: Emancipation Proclamation, Freeport Doctrine, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment

Back

13th Amendment

Front

What was the system of farming in which a farmer tends some portion of a landowner's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment?

Back

Sharecropping

Front

What is the negative term used to describe a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, thought to be taking advantage of the poor economic conditions of the South?

Back

Carpetbagger

Front

What is the negative term used to describe a white Southern Republican, believed to be traitor to the South and what it stands for?

Back

Scalawag

Front

What Constitutional amendment established the "equal protection" of all citizens under the law in the United States?

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14th Amendment

Front

What was the goal of Reconstruction?

Back

Restoring the former Confederate states back into the Union