HIST206 Midterm: History_ Exam 1 Study Guide
21 Feb 2018
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Reconstruction amendments: the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth. Poll taxes: enacted in southern states between 1889 and 1910 had the effect of disenfranchising many blacks as well as poor whites, because payment of the tax was a prerequisite for voting. Literacy tests: refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote; intended to disenfranchise african-americans. Abraham lincoln: 16th president of the united states; assassinated at the end of the. Andrew johnson: 17th president of the united states; became president after. Lincoln"s assassination; a unionist democrat, who was later impeached. Johnson"s reconstruction plan: extended amnesty to all southerners who took a loyalty oath, except for a few higher ranking confederates; it allowed states to reenter the union as soon as they revoked succession, abolished slavery, and. 2 relieved their new state governments of financial burdens by repudiating.
