AP US History: Reconstruction Flashcards

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