Final Exam History 1302 Blinn College
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Wade Davis Bill - ✔✔1864 Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms
for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath
and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution;
Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned.
10% Plan - ✔✔This was Lincoln's reconstruction plan for after the Civil War.
Written in 1863, it proclaimed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union
when 10% of its voters in the 1860 election pledged their allegiance to the U.S.
and pledged to abide by emancipation, and then formally erect their state
governments. This plan was very lenient to the South, would have meant an
easy reconstruction.
13th Amendment - ✔✔Abolition of slavery
14th Amendment - ✔✔Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and
are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
15th Amendment (1870) - ✔✔U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because
of race, color, or creed
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,Black Codes - ✔✔Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed
by southern states following the Civil War
Freedman's Bureau - ✔✔The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and
medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance to african
americans after the civil war.
Tenure of Office Act - ✔✔1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president
from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson
from removing a radical republican from his cabinet
Civil Rights Act 1866 - ✔✔law that established federal guarantees of civil rights
for all citizens
Carpetbagger - ✔✔A northerner who went to the South immediately after the
Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other
advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
Scalawag - ✔✔a white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the
Civil War
Menlo Park - ✔✔New Jersey village west of New York City where Thomas
Edison established the world's first industrial research laboratory in 1876. He
lived there until his wife's death in 1884.
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, Carnegie steel - ✔✔Steel giant that dominated the industry. Run by rags to
riches legend Andrew Carnegie who later teamed up with J.P. Morgan to form
U.S. Steel, the first billion dollar corporation in 1900.
Monopolies - ✔✔Corporations that gain complete control of the production of a
single good or service.
Wabash Railway v. Illinois - ✔✔Supreme Court decision that severely limited
the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. It led to the
creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
ICC - ✔✔Interstate Commerce Commission, a federal regulatory agency that
governed over the rules and regulations of the railroading industry.
Samuel Gompers - ✔✔He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor.
He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.
Total War Concept - ✔✔it involved a complete mobilization of resources and
people
Great Sioux War - ✔✔Conflict between Sioux and Cheyenne Indians and federal
troops over lands in the Dakotas in the mid-1870s.
Little Big Horn - ✔✔General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
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Questions and Verified Answers | Get it
100% Correct!!
Wade Davis Bill - ✔✔1864 Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms
for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath
and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution;
Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned.
10% Plan - ✔✔This was Lincoln's reconstruction plan for after the Civil War.
Written in 1863, it proclaimed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union
when 10% of its voters in the 1860 election pledged their allegiance to the U.S.
and pledged to abide by emancipation, and then formally erect their state
governments. This plan was very lenient to the South, would have meant an
easy reconstruction.
13th Amendment - ✔✔Abolition of slavery
14th Amendment - ✔✔Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and
are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
15th Amendment (1870) - ✔✔U.S. cannot prevent a person from voting because
of race, color, or creed
1|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
,Black Codes - ✔✔Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed
by southern states following the Civil War
Freedman's Bureau - ✔✔The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and
medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance to african
americans after the civil war.
Tenure of Office Act - ✔✔1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president
from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson
from removing a radical republican from his cabinet
Civil Rights Act 1866 - ✔✔law that established federal guarantees of civil rights
for all citizens
Carpetbagger - ✔✔A northerner who went to the South immediately after the
Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other
advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
Scalawag - ✔✔a white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the
Civil War
Menlo Park - ✔✔New Jersey village west of New York City where Thomas
Edison established the world's first industrial research laboratory in 1876. He
lived there until his wife's death in 1884.
2|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Carnegie steel - ✔✔Steel giant that dominated the industry. Run by rags to
riches legend Andrew Carnegie who later teamed up with J.P. Morgan to form
U.S. Steel, the first billion dollar corporation in 1900.
Monopolies - ✔✔Corporations that gain complete control of the production of a
single good or service.
Wabash Railway v. Illinois - ✔✔Supreme Court decision that severely limited
the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. It led to the
creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
ICC - ✔✔Interstate Commerce Commission, a federal regulatory agency that
governed over the rules and regulations of the railroading industry.
Samuel Gompers - ✔✔He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor.
He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.
Total War Concept - ✔✔it involved a complete mobilization of resources and
people
Great Sioux War - ✔✔Conflict between Sioux and Cheyenne Indians and federal
troops over lands in the Dakotas in the mid-1870s.
Little Big Horn - ✔✔General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of
Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
3|Page
©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
