HISTORY 1302 EXAM 1 CH. 15-19 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
What were Lincoln's views on Reconstruction? How did he want to treat
the south? Ans✓✓✓Treat south like prodigal son welcomed back into
the nation. He wanted to be less harsh and offer forgiveness for reuniting
What was the wade-Davis bill? Which group in congress created it?
How did it want to treat the south? Ans✓✓✓Created by the radical
republicans, led by Charles sumner, required 50% to pledge loyalty.
Meant to punish south
Why did Lincoln choose Andrew Johnson as his running mate in the
election of 1864? Ans✓✓✓As a gesture of wartime bipartisan unity
Describe the conspiracy to kill Lincoln and his cabinet? Why kill the
others? Ans✓✓✓Kill Lincoln's cabinet to disrupt American politics and
allow south to recover
What were the Reconstruction amendments? Ans✓✓✓13, 14, 15
13th Amendment Ans✓✓✓Abolished Slavery
14th Amendment Ans✓✓✓African Americans are made citizens
, 15th Amendment Ans✓✓✓gave African American men the right to vote
What was the tenure of office act? Who was it designed to
protect/punish? Ans✓✓✓The Tenure of Office Act required Senate
permission for the president to remove any federal official whose
appointment the Senate had confirmed. This act was intended to prevent
Andrew Johnson from firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the
president's most outspoken critic in the cabinet.
Why did congress attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson?
Ans✓✓✓Johnson had knowledge of the tenure of office act and still
tried to fire secretary of war Edwin Stanton on aug. 12, 1867, appointing
Ulysses S. Grant. The republicans saw this as a declaration of war.
What was the outcome of the impeachment trial? Ans✓✓✓Johnson was
impeached but not convicted
What territory(which later became a state) was acquired during
Johnson's presidency? Why was it called "Seward's Folly"?
Ans✓✓✓Alaska, it was a frozen wasteland
What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau? Ans✓✓✓Freed slaves
had no land, no home, and no money. Freedmen's Bureau (within the
War Department) to assist the suffering "freedmen and their wives and
children." It was the first federal experiment in providing assistance
directly to people rather than to states.
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
What were Lincoln's views on Reconstruction? How did he want to treat
the south? Ans✓✓✓Treat south like prodigal son welcomed back into
the nation. He wanted to be less harsh and offer forgiveness for reuniting
What was the wade-Davis bill? Which group in congress created it?
How did it want to treat the south? Ans✓✓✓Created by the radical
republicans, led by Charles sumner, required 50% to pledge loyalty.
Meant to punish south
Why did Lincoln choose Andrew Johnson as his running mate in the
election of 1864? Ans✓✓✓As a gesture of wartime bipartisan unity
Describe the conspiracy to kill Lincoln and his cabinet? Why kill the
others? Ans✓✓✓Kill Lincoln's cabinet to disrupt American politics and
allow south to recover
What were the Reconstruction amendments? Ans✓✓✓13, 14, 15
13th Amendment Ans✓✓✓Abolished Slavery
14th Amendment Ans✓✓✓African Americans are made citizens
, 15th Amendment Ans✓✓✓gave African American men the right to vote
What was the tenure of office act? Who was it designed to
protect/punish? Ans✓✓✓The Tenure of Office Act required Senate
permission for the president to remove any federal official whose
appointment the Senate had confirmed. This act was intended to prevent
Andrew Johnson from firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the
president's most outspoken critic in the cabinet.
Why did congress attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson?
Ans✓✓✓Johnson had knowledge of the tenure of office act and still
tried to fire secretary of war Edwin Stanton on aug. 12, 1867, appointing
Ulysses S. Grant. The republicans saw this as a declaration of war.
What was the outcome of the impeachment trial? Ans✓✓✓Johnson was
impeached but not convicted
What territory(which later became a state) was acquired during
Johnson's presidency? Why was it called "Seward's Folly"?
Ans✓✓✓Alaska, it was a frozen wasteland
What was the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau? Ans✓✓✓Freed slaves
had no land, no home, and no money. Freedmen's Bureau (within the
War Department) to assist the suffering "freedmen and their wives and
children." It was the first federal experiment in providing assistance
directly to people rather than to states.
