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History 1302Week One AssignmentDue January 26, 2011

1. The Civil War resulted in the death of _______________________ livesaccording to the textbook.

2. In the absence of southern members, the wartime Congress had centralizednational power and enacted the Republican economic agenda. Among theaccomplishments of the Republicans was the passage of

________________________ _______________________ which created auniform system of banking and bank-note currency which helped finance the war.

3. The relationship between northerners and southerners can best be described as ___________________ after the Civil War.

4. The intensity of ________________ _________________ in the South thwartedthe efforts of the Freedmens Bureau agents to protect and assist former slaves.

5. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by ______________________ __________________ ________________ at Fords Theater on April 14, 1865.

6. The person responsible for Lincolns death was later _____________________ ___________________ _________________ _________________.

7. Many southern Congressmen selected for Congress after the end of the Civil War

were denied seats in Congress because they were _____________________ ________________________.

8. In southern states, laws were passed that restricted the ability of blacks to participate in society, including the restriction that blacks could not own property.These laws were known as the _______________________

__________________.

9. After the Civil War, the Republicans needed ______________________ ______________________ votes to maintain control of Congress and the WhiteHouse.

10. Republicans argued that _______________________ was the proper authority torestore the South to the Union.

11. The congressional elections of _____________________ promised to be areferendum on the growing split between Andrew Johnson and the RadicalRepublicans.

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12. The ___________________ _____________________ __________________ prescribed conditions under which the formation of southern state governmentsshould begin after the Civil War.

13. Congress protected the power of its Reconstruction program by removing the

power of the Supreme Court to __________________ cases arising under theMilitary Reconstruction Act.

14. Black ____________________ _______________ formed the core of firstgeneration African American political leaders in the South after the Civil War.

15. ________________________ formed the foundation of African Americancommunity life.

16. The antebellum elite denied education to African Americans in the South becausemany in this southern elitist clan were afraid of ____________________

________________________.17. In terms of participation in political conventions, African American delegates

ranged all colors and apparently all conditions, but _________________ ___________________ from the cities played the most prominent roles.

18. African American political influence during Reconstruction was limited to _______________________.

19. Ulysses S. Grant gained the support of northern voters in the 1868 election because he was a former _____________________ _____________________.

20. Many of Ulysses S. Grants personal choices for cabinet members can best bedescribed as _________________________.