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Ms.studies ch 6-7 su
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Ku klux klan | a secret organization with special handshakes, passwords, and disguises that used violence and intimidation against freedmen after the civil war |
forage | to secure food by stripping the country side |
Constitution of 1868 | a constitution required by the reconstruction acts in order for mississippi to be readmitted to the union; it had to give blacks civil rights and equal protection under the law |
Shoestring district | the sixth congressional district, formed after the revolution of 1875 to minimize the impact of blacks in congressional elections |
battery | a set of big guns used for attack or deffense |
redeemers | democratic leaders who planned and directed the revolution of 1875 |
reconstruction | the time of rebuilding the south and restoring southern states states to the union after the civil war |
scalawag | a white mississipian or other southerner who joined the republic joined republican party and supported the rights of citizenship for blacks during reconstruction |
bivouac | to camp with little shelter |
impeachment | a formal charge brought against an elected official |
grierson's raid | a union civil cavalry raid that colonel Benjamin Grierson conducted |
freedmen | the name given to former slaves |
siege | a tactic where armed forces try to capture a fort or fortified town by surrounding it a preventing supplies from reaching it |
casualties | persons killed wounded or missing in battle |
amnesty | pardon granted to a large group of individualities |
blockade | the use naval forces to isolate a seaport and prevent ships from entering or leaving |
carpetbagger | a northerner who remained in the south or moved to the south after the civil war |
Mississippi plan | a democratic party strategy to win victory in the Mississippi elections of 1875 |
emancipation proclamation | President Abraham Lincolns january 1, 1863 proclamation that freed all slaves in those states in rebellion against the USA |
disfranchise | to take away the right to vote from a person or group |
black codes | a set of laws that governed and regulated the lives of freedmen in Mississippi after the civil war |
monopoly | the exclusive ownership or control of a product or industry by one company or group |
literacy test | determined whether a person could read or write before being allowed to vote |
morrill land grant act | an act passed in 1862 by the U.S congress that granted each state a large area of federal land to support an agricultural and mechanical college |
brown v. board of education of Topeka, Kansas decision | a 1954 U.S supreme court decision that overturned the Plessy v. ferguson decision of 1896 |
new departure democrats | bourbon politician who favored a new south based on economic diversification |
plessy v. ferguson decision | in 1896 us supreme court decision that ruled that racial segregation of public facilities did not violate the us |
crop lien law | required sharecroppers to remain on the land until all of their debts were paid in full |
poll tax | a tax that had to be paid before a person could vote |
normal school | a teacher training school |
color-line politics | the exclusion of blacks from political affairs solely on the basis of their color |
farmers alliance | a fraternal organizations of white farmers that began in texas in the mid 1870's and swept across the south in the late 1880's; it encouraged cooperative buying and selling and encourage farmers to register to vote and participate in political campaigns |
bourbons | ms politicians who did not except changes brought about by the civil war and reconstruction |
black exodus | the migration of blacks mostly farm workers from ms to kansas and other midwestern states after reconstruction |
constitution of 1890 | a state constitution drafted by the bourbons to help them control the state legislature and disfranchise blacks and poor whites ; with many amendments it is still in effect |
jim crow laws | legislation passed in the late 1800's that segregated public schools and other public facilities |
convict lease system | an arrangement which prisoners were leased as labors to private entities which were responsible for their up keep |
Richard Taylor | this conferdate general surrendered the conferdate armies in ms and la to general edward r.s. canby on may 4th 1865 almost a month after general lee's surrender to general grant at appomattox courthouse va |
William T. Sherman | after the fall of vicksburg and a march to chattanooga tn this union general was ordered back to ms and instructed to destroy the railroad from vicksburg to meridian and to disrupt other conferdate supply lines |
U.S Grant | this union general defeated th confederate troops in the battle of shiloh, then occupied oxford before moving toward vicksburg. after breaking the levee at yazoo pass but then failing to advance toward vicksburg from the northeast, he marched his men down |
John C. Pemberton | he was the commander of the conederate forces in mississippi and la. he clashed with grants army at the battle of champion hill, but was forced to retreat to vicksburg. there the union lay siege to the city and soon the confederates were forced to surrren |
What was the battle that brought grant into Mississippi? | Battle of shiloh |
What was Lincolns plan to involve confederate states in national politics? | The plan was if 10% of the voters took the oath and created a state government, the state would be able to vote again |
Why was President Johnson impeached? | President Johnson was impeached but not removed from office because he tried to block the reconstruction acts |
What are 5 states that were confederate? | Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama,Florida |
Discuss the role of Vicksburg, why was Vicksburg important? | Vicksburg was important because its location on a high bluff allowed complete control over who was able to travel the river, and it is where Grant marched to reopen trade along the Mississippi river. |
What are 3 of the 5 parts of the black codes? | 1. Freedmen were not allowed to vote or hold public office 2. Freedmen could own property only within towns and cities and could carry firearms only with special permission of local authorities. 3. Freedmen who were under eighteen and not living with th |
Who were bourbons and what was their purpose? | They were Mississippi politicians who did not accept the changes brought about by the civil war and reconstruction. Bourbon democrats worked to overcome political and racial conflicts. |
What natural resource in ms. helped upstart the economy after the civil war? | cotton |
What is the Morrill Grant act? | The Morrill Grant Act granted every state a large area of land to be used as support . of an agricultural and mechanical college. |
What is the convict lease system and how does it work? | Bourbons set up a contraversal cost cutting scheme that was called the convict lease system. It was arranged for prisoners to be leased as laborers to private business who were for their up keep it was outlawed in 1903 |
List 4 colleges that were established in this time period? | alcorin university, mississippi agricultural and mechanical college, state normal school at holly springs, mississippi university for women, jackson state university |
Court case of plessy v. ferguson | U.S Supreme court ruled that racial segregation of public facilities did not violate the US constitution if the separate facilities were equal. Jim crow laws were passed . Brown v. the board of education decision Topeka, kansas overturned plessy v. fergu |