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When does Presidential Reconstruction occur? - Answer- Occurs in 1864-1867. Presidential Reconstruction Plan - Answer- President Lincoln's plan to bring states that had succeeded from the United States back into the United States. There were 2 requirements for a state to be readmitted into the Union. 1.) The state must enter as a free state. 2.)10% of voters must swear loyalty to the Union. In return for these things,states will get: general amnesty or forgiveness and to become a state again...

In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were white southerners and their slaves. In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto led to independence for Texas. Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally relatively young people who traveled in family groups. In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the United States warned it would increase the controversy over slavery. Which of the ...

Civil Rights in the USA : Revision Notes Revision Notes broken up into themes and sub-themes for ease. For example: Topic: The Position of African Americans in 1865 (The Reconstruction Period) What was the position of African Americans in 1865? Subtopic: The Position of African Americans in 1865 • April 1865 South came within the Union’s jurisdiction and slaves became free • New status as freedmen did not mean that they immediately gained the same rights as white owners ...

white opposition to Reconstruction - answerTo the Southern People, the Reconstruction was a way to steal the land away from the South. The first thing they did was to put a land tax on property which the southerners could not afford, then they made it illegal for anyone who fought on the southern side to hold any public office. They were going to reap the benefit of the cotton crop being ready to pick and take it to market. Many of the farmers lit their fields on fire rather than have it st...

How does a case get to the SCOTUS? correct answers **Rule of 4 to 9 is applied, which states that justices have to agree to hear someones case in the appeals court. -for a case to reach the Supreme Court is on appeal from a circuit court. *A party seeking to appeal a decision of a circuit court can file a petition to the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari What is "writ of certiorari"? correct answers -is a process for seeking judicial review and a writ issued by a court that agre...

HIUS 390 Settlement Quiz 2024 Scored 50/50 For what did the Siouan Monacans and Mannahoacs regularly raid the Virginia Algonquians villages? Wives and slaves Food and metal tools Leather Arrows and oysters What was Virginia’s primary source of labor in the seventeenth century (1600s)? Sharecropping Slavery Paid contractors Indentured servitude In the first few years of the settlement’s existence, what did the Jamestown settlers primarily rely on to get food? Farming and...

US History (A) Final Exam Prep, Complete Solution Square Deal Theodore Roosevelt's government program of fair and equal treatment for all Monopoly Singular/complete control of a product or business by one person or group NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Challenged unfair/racist laws. JD Rockefeller owner of the Standard Oil monopoly and trust W.E.B. DuBois 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and di...

"presidential reconstruction" - - short lived: allowed southern states to return, but without slavery - timid: almost all confederates were pardoned and let back into politics - gave very little thought to the former slaves: Johnson did not see African Americans as equals, did not believe they deserved citizenship or the right to vote *Pushed white northerners to ask more of Johnson Thaddeus Stevens (PA. rep ) - pledge his political energy to marginalize Johnson (impeached Johnson) - ov...

SDC U.S. History Exam Guide 2023 with complete solution

IXL REVIEW STUDY QUESTIONS 2024. Abolition - correct answer To ban slavery. Secession - correct answer To withdraw formally from a group. Plessy vs Ferguson - correct answer The case that deemed that African Americans are seperate but equal. Reconstruction - correct answer The time period in which they were rebuilding the south. Lynching - correct answer A mob that kills someone before a trialp Black Codes - correct answer To restrict black rights in southern states. Sharecro...