AP US History: Reconstruction#2 Flashcards

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