U.S. history Reconstruction – Flashcards
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Thirteenth amendment
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abolished slavery
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War
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Oliver Howard
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Union general who headed the Freedmen's Bureau
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Presidential Reconstruction
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was the President's idea of reconstruction : all states had to end slavery, states had to declare that their secession was illegal, and men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.
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10% plan
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pledged loyalty to union by ten percent of the southern states votes towards the union and emncipation.
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wade-Davis bill
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an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh.
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Black codes
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Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
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Congressional Reconstruction
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also called radical or military reconstruction, to ten years (1867-77) of northern occupation in teh south meant to guarantee the rights and freedom of former slaves
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civil rights bill of 1866
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first congressional attempt to guarantee black rights in the south, passed over johnson's veto
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Charles Sumner
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Radical Republican against the slave power who insults Andrew Butler and subsequently gets caned by Preston Brooks
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Thaddeus Stephens
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A radical Republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the radical Republicans in Congress.
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Moderate Republicans
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group that viewed Reconstruction as a practical matter of restoring states into the Union and keeping the former Confederates out of government
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Military reconstruction act
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set up martial law (military rule) in the South , nullified Johnson's programs
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impeachment of johnson
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1868 violated the Tenure of Office Act, but really was because of his stubborn defiance of Congress on Reconstruction. Fell one vote short
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Hiram R. Revels
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North Carolina free black, he became a senator in 1870.
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Blanche K. Bruce
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An American politician. Bruce represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate.
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Scalawags
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southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction
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carpetbaggers
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northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction
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Ku Klux Klan
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a secret society of white Southerners in the United States
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Force Acts
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A series of laws designed to protect black suffrage by authorizing the use of the army against the Ku Klux Klan
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solid south
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term used to describe the domination of post-Civil War southern politics by the Democratic Party
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Lost Cause
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romantic name given to the Southern fight for independence, indicating nobility despite defeat
