Social Studies Chapter 18 – Flashcards

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the civil rights act of 1866

Radical

ku klux klan

Reconstruction

sharecropping

Poll tax

Black Codes

Wade-davis bill

hayes presidency

14th

Tenure of Office act

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Amnesty

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lincoln proposed the Ten Percent Plan

Freedman's Bureau

it was called the 10 percent plan because if 10% of voters took an oath of loyalty to the union, the state could form a new state government. required to adopt a constitution banning slavery

Amnesty means a pardon, or forgiveness

extreme, approach

The Wade-Davis Bill was harsher than Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan. The bill passed Congress, but President Lincoln refused to sign it. that's why The bill did not become law.

1. Majority of white men in a state had to swear loyalty. 2. state constitutional convention could be held, but only white men who swore they had never taken up arms against the Union could vote for delegates. 3. Convention had to adopt a new state constitution that abolished slavery

The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery throughout the United States

Johnson wanted to give amnesty to most Southerners. Johnson's plan for Reconstruction required Southern states to write new constitutions that banned slavery.

1.states had to do certain things 2. they had to accept things.

They thought that Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too easy on the Southerners. Radicals wanted it to be difficult for Southerners to join the Union again

These laws were meant to control newly freed African Americans. Some made it illegal for African Americans to own or rent farms. Some made it easy for white employers to take advantage of African American workers. Others made it possible to fine or arrest African Americans who did not have jobs. In many ways, the black codes made life for African Americans little better than slavery.

Congress was unhappy about the black codes. They wanted former slaves to be free and equal. there response was: 1.Empowered the Freedmen's Bureau to set up courts to try people who violated African Americans' rights. 2. Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

The Fourteenth Amendment made African Americans citizens.

It promised equal protection under the law. it banned former Confederate leaders from holding office unless they had been pardoned

it was the election year.

they were under control of generals.

johnson was in charge of the army and generals

formally charge him with wrongdoing.

the Fifteenth granted African American men the right to vote.

they tried to set up courts for people who tried to violate African american rights. they passed a law for them called the civil rights act.

1.the civil rights act 2.the 13th amendment' 3.the 14th amendment

Reconstruction marked the first time African Americans participated in government, both as voters and as elected officials.

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Most Southern whites opposed the Republican Party, but some supported it. They were usually business people who had never owned slaves. They suspected that the Northerners wanted to take advantage of the troubles in the South. Some of the Northerners were dishonest

Klan members disguised themselves in white sheets and hoods. They threatened, beat, and killed thousands of African Americans and their white friends. They burned African American homes, schools, and churches. They saw violence as a way to oppose Republican rule.

African Americans started their own schools during Reconstruction. Many whites and African Americans from the North came to teach in these schools

to come together

the farmer gave a part, or share, of his crops to the landowner. The part demanded by landowners was often very large.

1. African Americans were victims of violence 2. Most Southern whites did not want African Americans to have more rights. 3. African Americans had fewer rights than white Southerners

it brought sharecropping to provide for their families and some rights.

Grant's presidency had problems with corruption and dishonesty. Then, an economic depression struck.

The commission said that Hayes, the Republican, should be named president.

when hayes became president. The most important was a promise to withdraw all troops from the South. The last troops left in 1877. This marked the end of Reconstruction.

The New South would have industries that used the region's coal, iron, tobacco, cotton, and lumber resources.

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they were still treated unfairly

The governments passed laws that made it nearly impossible for African Americans to vote.

Segregation is the separation of races

required african americans & whites to be separated in almost every public place

happens when a mob kills a person, often by hanging.

1.did make great gains in industry 2.The tobacco, iron and steel, and lumber industries all boomed. 3. Southern industry grew because the South had a large supply of natural resources, cheap and reliable labor, and new railroads.

1.poll taxes, 2.literacy tests 3.grandfather clauses.