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| 199885660 | Lincoln's 10% Plan | Lincoln fear that surviving bands of Confederates continue guerilla warfare in South after war; propose to replace majority rule w/ "loyal rule" | 0 | |
| 995903286 | Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | Dec. 1863; part of 10% plan; declaration that suggest replacing majority rule in order to speed along Reconstruction (Lincoln want fast healing) | 1 | |
| 751003020 | loyal rule | in 10% Plan, replace majority rule w/; require Union garrison in some "Lost Cause" states | 2 | |
| 94153432 | Wade-Davis bill | July 1864; Senator Benjamin Wade (OH) + Congressman Henry W. Davis (MD); three provisions for state to rejoin Union (harsh Reconstruction by Rad. Rep.); 1.) maj. of white male cit. participate in create new gov't. 2.) to be a delegate or vote take "iron clad" oath (give word that never aided Confederacy) 3.) all officers above rank of lieutenant + all Civil officials in Confederacy disenfranchised + deemed not a citizen of US; Lincoln anger by pocket-veto b/c feel too harsh | 3 | |
| 94153433 | 13th Amendment | Jan. 31, 1865; pass by 2 more than necessary 2/3 vote; change image of property; all slaves in Union free + Congress can enforce through "appropriate legislation" | 4 | |
| 348564635 | Freedmen's Bureau | Mar. 3, 1865; federal aid poor black and white citizens; created by Congress (Radical Republicans) to exist for four years; supply food, medical service, build several thousand schools, negotiate employment for freedmen; social reform through military occupation | 5 | |
| 673644868 | Conservative Republicans | want limited federal role in reconstruction | 6 | |
| 580514480 | Moderate Republicans | Lyman Trumbull; oppose Johnson's leniency but restrain Radical Republicans | 7 | |
| 590657216 | Radical Republicans | Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, George Julian; want to heavily reform South; want black rights | 8 | |
| 889270535 | Election of 1866 | many Radical and Moderate Republicans were re-elected; seen as approval; Johnson did not have popular support | 9 | |
| 531699475 | sharecropping | "40 acres and a mule"; freedmen wanted property but no one will sell or rent; trapped in cycle of debt; down in value of cotton | 10 | |
| 529108995 | Lost Cause | belief in continued sectionalism and resistance to Reconstruction policies such as those that gave black right b/c South unhappy w/ outcome of war | 11 | |
| 419042113 | Black Codes | change Slave Codes into Black Codes; make freedmen carry passes, observe curfew; vagrancy/contracts bind former slaves to plantations; Johnson's goal: hold no one accountable + return former Slaves to positions of servility | 12 | |
| 701928435 | What challenges did the South face following the Civil War? | -yeomen farmers walk home from army too late to plant crop -many white refugees face starvation -in early 1866, SC issues $300k in state bonds to buy corn (even though was supposed most agriculturally producing state) -great tracts of land destroyed, houses burnt, fields destroyed (think Sherman's march) | 13 | |
| 652626071 | Johnson | Lincoln's VP but seen as more Democratic than Republican; from border state of TN; initially propose harsh measures for return of ex-Confederates but get full of self and grant many, many pardons; racist; speedy Reconstruction; restore aristocracy; prevent Radical Republicans from making too many changes | 14 | |
| 806404959 | 14th Amendment | a.) treatment of ex-Conf: Conf. debt not upheld; Conf. leaders barred from state/fed. office b.) citizenship - "all persons born or naturalized in US"; protect African American rights c.) representation - proportional to # voters in state if allow blacks to vote; otherwise state get fewer representatives d.) suffrage - no female suffrage Southern reaction: every Southern state leg. but TN reject; listen to Johnson | 15 | |
| 731877171 | 15th Amendment | 1869 - forbade states to deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"; 3/4 states approve > effective in 1870 | 16 | |
| 740744656 | Myth of "Negro Rule" | southern propaganda against African Americas which suggested "black dominion" and that blacks were getting too much power | 17 | |
| 183473453 | Carpetbaggers | A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes by buying up land from desperate Southerners and by manipulating new black voters to obtain lucrative government contracts. | 18 | |
| 147678471 | Scalawags | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners; Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction policy | 19 | |
| 126344322 | Ku Klux Klan | 1866 terrorist organization in South | 20 | |
| 325789006 | Thomas Scott | -eastern railroad magnate - PA Railroad - big corporation | 21 | |
| 452652197 | Panic of 1873 | Four year economic depression caused by overspeculation on railroads and western lands, and worsened by Grant's poor fiscal response (refusing to coin silver | 22 | |
| 754680415 | Civil Rights Act 1875 | 1875 gave blacks the privilege of American citizenship and denied states' the right to restrict blacks of their property, testify in court, and make contracts for their labor. Johnson vetoed this, but Congress voted to override the veto. | 23 | |
| 1248711709 | Alaska | bought by Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1867; also took control of Midway islands | 24 | |
| 540362224 | Ex parte Milligan | 1866 - Supreme Court ruled that military trials of civilians were illegal unless the civil courts are inoperative or the region is under marshall law. | 25 | |
| 665524184 | The Alabama | A Confederate ship built in Britain and armed after it left port so it was not considered a warship when it left port. Displayed the main foreign intervention in the war, and because it never landed in a Confederate port it yielded Britain the naval base of the Confederacy. | 26 | |
| 220992130 | Slaughter-House cases 1873 | (1873) - The Court ruled that the privileges and immunities clause protected only certain narrow federal rights, such as the right to travel, to petition Congress, and to vote in national elections - not the protections found in the Bill of Rights. | 27 | |
| 203527503 | Bradwell v. Illinois | Sued because they would no let a women practice law even though she passed the exam, was not taken well by the Supreme Court. It was not guaranteed by the 14th amendment. | 28 | |
| 10219939 | U.S. v. Cruikshank | Supreme Court decides the federal government cannot punish whites for oppressing blacks; overrule 1870 Enforcement act of LA | 29 | |
| 796305708 | Election of 1876 | Ended reconstruction because neither canidate had an electorial majority. Hayes (rep) was elected, and then ended reconstruction as he secretly promised beat Tilden (demo) | 30 | |
| 665524182 | Compromise of 1877 | -Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river; as long as Hayes became the president | 31 | |
| 825510910 | Tenure of Office Act | 1866 - Enacted by radical Congress, it forbade the president from removing civil officers without consent of the Senate. It was meant to prevent Johnson from removing radicals from office. Johnson broke this law when he fired a radical Republican from his cabinet, and he was impeached for this "crime". | 32 | |
| 181343109 | Sea Islands | Lands were issued to freed slaves and their families as a part of a temporary plan granting each freed family forty acres of tillable land from this location. | 33 | |
| 848388434 | Memorial Day | day to honor dead soldiers; made by African Americans | 34 | |
| 461029326 | Reconstruction Acts | 1867 - Pushed through congress over Johnson's veto, it gave radical Republicans complete military control over the South and divided the South into five military zones, each headed by a general with absolute power over his district. | 35 | |
| 139525101 | Election of 1868 | Grant (Rep) v. Horatio Seymour (Dem) -450,000 blacks got the right to vote; Grant win | 36 | |
| 278156390 | Amnesty Act | Passed in 1872, law which granted civil rights to ex-confederates and so set the stage for them to regain control of the south | 37 |
