5016882882 | facts surrounding Lincoln's assassinations | died 4/14/1865 --5 days after the end of the Civil War by John Wilkes Booth (famous actor) Bigger plot- to wipe out top U.S. govt (Pres, VP, Sec of State, Gen Grant | 0 | |
5017025949 | significance of Lincoln's assassination | Union lost leader and south lost a man that was going to be nice to them (1st assassination of a US Pres) | 1 | |
5017097899 | Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan | 10% plan: of state population can join if 10% pledges oath Con. military officials will be pardoned Anyone who took loyalty pledge gets property back , no punishments | 2 | |
5017325355 | Radical Republicans Reconstruction Plan | Wade Davis Bill-- wants 50% of of population to take oath wants to punish south-- STRICT non conf could vote conf voting rights taken away | 3 | |
5017436169 | Leading two Radical Republicans In Congress | Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens | 4 | |
5017443106 | Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plans | wants to punish wealthy south pardon those who took oath. state had to abolish slavery, accept 13th Confederate debt wiped out | 5 | |
5017459339 | political party that controlled Congress | Republican Party | 6 | |
5017462494 | Freedman's Bureau | welfare-- provided education, food, healthcare, clothing to anyone who suffered the war (mostly blacks) Johnson vetoes | 7 | |
5017527655 | Civil Rights Act 1875 | Equal accommodations in public places. Supreme court decided only applies to govt, not individual people. | 8 | |
5017551316 | Explain relation between Congress and Johnson | Hates each other | 9 | |
5017554562 | 13th Amendment | abolishes slavery | 10 | |
5017559312 | 14th Amendment | Anyone born and naturalized are U.S citizens (women are citizens, not =) itizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included former slaves recently freed. | 11 | |
5017565116 | 15th Amendment | voting can not be denied due to race, color, and previous servitude | 12 | |
5017598431 | Reasons for Andrew's Johnson impeachment | breaks Office of Tenure Act-- Pres chooses cabinet and congress approves, if fired, Congress has to approve Fires Sec of State, Edwin Stanton | 13 | |
5017714298 | Identify the voting restriction used to discriminate against blacks | Literacy Test--read constitution and interpretation poll tax--former slaves can't afford Grandfather Clause-- any could vote if grandpa could vote | 14 | |
5017747957 | Significances of the case of Plessy v Ferguson | Plessy considered black sat at white section of the train Plessy lost and legalized segregation (sep and = accomodations | 15 | |
5017780769 | Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws | Racist laws, segregating blacks into their "rightful place" | 16 | |
5017803149 | examples of Black Codes | outlawed interracial marriage, had to sign labor contracts, brought back to work and give up pay if escaped: sep but = | 17 | |
5017822924 | Reasons and Tactics used by the KKK | To stop pro blacks from voting, tactics: terrorism, lynching, burning, whipping, burning of the cross, knock on door representing dead con | 18 | |
5017847864 | Southern govts in post Civil War years | Graft-political corruption, bribes, payoffs, (people in govt- ex confederates) | 19 | |
5017897702 | carpetbaggers | northerners travel to south to exploit and take advantage of poor situation PROFIT (political ambitions, businesses) | 20 | |
5017914462 | scalawags | white southerners who supports Republicans (traitors to race) | 21 | |
5017931633 | crop lien system | stores give workers supplies, in return get share of crop | 22 | |
5017945806 | sharecropping | give plots of land to people, in return share crops w owner | 23 | |
5017969319 | tenant farming | workers rent, grow crops and sells for money, gives money to owner | 24 | |
5017988565 | industry of the south after the Civil War | Tobacco and cigarettes flourish in the south | 25 | |
5018016016 | reason for the formation of black communities after the Civil War | whole towns and neighborhoods are black | 26 | |
5018076208 | Union League | political/social organization , built black churches, schools, help w courts, if discriminated, support Republican party taught civics, how to register to vote, politics | 27 | |
5018113718 | Roles of blacks in politics after the Civil War | some states gave black right to vote, had right to get elected 1st two blacks in Congress Sen Hiram Revels, Blanche Bruce | 28 | |
5018144564 | Booker T. Washington's background | former slave born into slavery | 29 | |
5018158216 | Booker T. Washington's advice | get a decent job, learn a trade/skill | 30 | |
5018165408 | Booker T. Washington's accomplishments | founded Tuskegee Institute (vocational), autobiography UP FROM SLAVERY | 31 | |
5018181254 | How whites viewed Booker T. Washington | don't see him as a threat - blacks won't take jobs such as lawyers, doctors | 32 | |
5018188938 | Amnesty Act of 1872 | Forgiveness of ex confederates no more punishments | 33 | |
5018211097 | Election of 1876 | contested election-- who gets the vote? miscounted votes need to be recounted | 34 | |
5018225874 | Compromise of 1877 | House of Representatives decide President makes deal- chooses Hayes (R) as President, In exchange military will get out of the south | 35 | |
5018245197 | Results and impact of ending reconstruction | laws helping blacks ignored, south remains poor, southern industries doesnt take off | 36 |
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