Chapter 17 - Reconstruction and the New South

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What were black codes?

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laws passed to limit the rights of African Americans in the South

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What did the Tenure of Office Act seek to prevent? Options: the president from running for a third term in office, elected or appointed officials from resigning before their terms ended, states from creating new constitutions until they were under military rule, the president from removing government officials without Senate approval

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the president from removing government officials without Senate approval

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Which African-American politician served as lieutenant governor and then acting governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction?

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Pinckney Pinchback

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How many African Americans served as delegates to state constitutional conventions during Reconstruction?

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265

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Who issued Special Field Order No. 15 in 1865?

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General Oliver Otis Howard

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Who was the Democratic nominee for president during the election of 1868?

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Horatio Seymour

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Who were the Copperheads?

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Republicans who opposed Ulysses S. Grant

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What is a poll tax?

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a fee paid in exchange for a ballot

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Who had to resign from his position in Grant’s Cabinet because of corruption charges?

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William Belknap

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Pres. Johnson's Reconstruction Plan could be described as...

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...favorable to the South