The Reconstruction, AP US History Flashcards

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384635977	Thirteenth Amendment	The amendment that freed the slaves.	0
384635978	Fourteenth Amendment	The amendment that gave blacks rights as citizens.	1
384635979	Fifteenth Amendment	The amendment that granted suffrage to African-Americans.	2
384635980	The Union League	The main political machine for blacks, educating blacks in their civic duties and campaigning for Republican candidates in the years following the Civil war. (Eventually expanded to build black churches and schools, represent black grievances before local employers and government, and recruiting militias to protect black communities from white retaliation.	3
384635981	Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction	10% of the voters in any given Southern state in the election of 1860 must take an oath of allegiance to the US and pledge to abide by emancipation.	4
384635982	Wade-Davis Bill of 1864	A bill forced through Congress by the Republicans requiring, for the readmission of a state to the Union, 50% of a state's voters to take the oath, and demanding better, stronger safeguards for emancipation than Lincoln's pledge. Lincoln refused to sign this bill.	5
384635983	Freedmen's Bureau	Intended to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to both freedmen and white refugees; Johnson repeatedly attempted to kill it and it expired in 1872.	6
384635984	3/5	The fraction of a person that African-Americans had previously counted for.	7
384635985	Charles Sumner	Led the Senate radicals and worked continually for racial equality as well as black freedom.	8
384635986	Thaddeus Stevens	The most powerful radical in the House; had defended runaway slaves in court without fee and insisted on burial in a black cemetery.	9
384635987	Civil Rights Bill of 1866	Made blacks American citizens and struck at the Black codes. While initially vetoed by Johnson, Congress overturned the veto a month later.	10
384635988	The Black Codes	Sought to minimize the effects of emancipation. While freedom was legally recognized and some privileges such as marriage granted, these codes ensured that freedom brought virtually no changes to the average black's lifestyle. Notable is the sharecropping system established by these codes.	11
384635989	Reconstruction Act of 1867	Divided the South into five military districts and temporarily disfranchised tens of thousands of former Confederate soldiers. Required seceded states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and to guarantee in the state constitutions full suffrage for adult black males.	12
384635990	The Ku Klux Klan	Founded in Tennessee in 1866, this group is the most notorious of many anti-black "secret" organizations.	13
384635991	Force Acts of 1870 and 1871	Helped federal troops to eliminate most of the KKK and similar organizations.	14