5361670915 | Proclaimation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | Offered a full pardon and restoration of white Southerner's property if they swore allegiance | 0 | |
5361670916 | Ten Percent Plan | Only required 10% of states' population to swear allegiance to the union, compared to the Radical Republicans' 50% | 1 | |
5361670917 | Radical Republicans | Extreme right-wing government faction during the Civil War and through Reconstruction | 2 | |
5361670918 | Wade-Davis Bill | Required 50% of a states' population to pledge allegiance to the Union and set stronger safeguards on emancipation | 3 | |
5361670919 | Merriman Howard | "My Lord will enable class to enjoy the sweet boon of freedom" | 4 | |
5361670920 | Freedmen's Bureau | Founded in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the aftermath of the Civil War | 5 | |
5361670921 | Special Field Order 15 | Granted 40 acres to freed slaves along the Georgia and South Carolina coast | 6 | |
5361670922 | Andrew Johnson | 17th president, came to office at the end of Civil War, favored quick restoration of the seceded states of the Union | 7 | |
5361670923 | Yeoman Farmer | A southern farmer who owned a modest farm and a few slaves, middle class of the Pre-War south | 8 | |
5361670924 | Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction | South should help themselves, Af-Am's could not manage themselves and did not deserve the vote, gave over 7000 presidential pardons to Confederate generals | 9 | |
5361670925 | Black codes | Laws passed by Southern states in 65-66 after the Civil War. Restricted Af-Am's freedoms. | 10 | |
5361670926 | Yearly Labor Contract | Southern states often forced former slaves to sign contracts which forced them to work for their "owners" for a year, similar to slavery | 11 | |
5361670927 | Thaddeus Stevens | One of the leaders of the Radical Republican party from Pennsylvania | 12 | |
5361670928 | Charles Sumner | Another leader of Radical Republican party from Massachusetts, leader of antislavery forces in MA, | 13 | |
5361670929 | Civil Rights Bill | First U.S. law to define citizenship and to affirm citizens are protected by the law, intended to protect rights of Af-Am's | 14 | |
5361670930 | Fourteenth amendment | Granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.", including freed slaves | 15 | |
5361670931 | Reconstruction Act | Acts passed by Congress which required states to ratify the 14th amendment and form new states constitutions | 16 | |
5361670932 | Tenure of Office Act | Intended to restrict the power of the president to remove office holders without permission of the Senate | 17 | |
5361670933 | Ulysses Grant | Fought in civil war for North, disabled KKK, became president | 18 | |
5361670934 | Fifteenth amendment | Black males are made voters | 19 | |
5361670935 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony | Co-leaders of NWSA and were for pro-suffrage | 20 | |
5361670936 | National Woman Suffrage Association | Opposed 15th | 21 | |
5361670937 | American Woman Suffrage Association | Approved 15th | 22 | |
5361670938 | Union League | Educated South Af-Am's about civic life, built black schools/churches, represented Af-Am's interests | 23 | |
5361670939 | Hiram Revels | 1st black citizen in U.S. Senate | 24 | |
5361670940 | Blanche K. Bruce | Mississippi rep black senator, served full term | 25 | |
5361670941 | Carpetbaggers | Northern businessmen/politicians who came to South to work on Reconstruction | 26 | |
5361670942 | Scalawags | Pro-Union southerners who were accused of plundering South resources | 27 | |
5361670943 | KKK | Extremist, paramilitary, right wing, secret society, violent, Pro-Protestant and Anglo Saxon | 28 | |
5361670944 | Meridian, MS | Where 30 blacks were murdered along with a Republican judge | 29 | |
5361670945 | Colfax, LA | Massacre between parties, 62-158 dead | 30 | |
5361670946 | United States v. Cruikshank | Supreme Court threw out some of the convictions of those convicted in the Colfax massacre | 31 | |
5361670947 | Redeemers | White democrats, redeem South from corruption | 32 | |
5361670948 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Corrupt Bargain, Republican | 33 | |
5361670949 | Samuel Tilden | Ran against Hayes, Democrat | 34 |
AP US History: Reconstruction#2 Flashcards
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