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S.S Reconstruction
Vocab and questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1865-1877 Period following the civil war in which the US government worked to reunite the nation and to rebuild the southern states | Reconstruction |
| An offical pardon issued by the government for an illegal act | Amnesty |
| Constitutional Amendant that outlawed slavery | Thirteenth Amendant |
| Reconstruction plan that imposed two conditions for a former confederate state to rejoin the US states; it had outlawed slavery and adult males had to take an oath | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Lincolns plan for reconstruction: 10% voters in former Confederate States to take a loyalty oath, and each state could form a new state government+ be readmitted to the union | Ten% Plan |
| Agency established by congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Laws passed in the southern states during the Reconstruction that greatly limited freedom and the rights of African Americans | Black Codes |
| Repbulican members of Congress who felt that the Southern States needed to make great social changes before they could be re-admitted to the Union | Radical Republican |
| Law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
| Constitutional amendant that, among other provisions gave full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US except American Indians | Fourteenth Ammendment |
| Laws that put the southern states under US military control and required them to draft new constitutions holding the 14th Ammendent | Reconstruction Acts |
| Constitutional Amendant that gave African American men the right to vote | Fifteenth Ammendent |
| name given to the northners who moved to the south during Reconstruction | Carpetbaggers |
| name given to white southners who supported Reconstruction for private gain "mean fellows" | Scalawags |
| Secret society created by white southners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining civil rights | Klu Klux Klan |
| A finical crisis in the US that led to an ecnomic depression and weakned the repbulican party | Panic of 1873 |
| Law guaranteeing African americans equal rights in public places such as thetres and public transportation | Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
| Law reapling Section III of the fourteenth ammendant which forbade former confederates to hold office | Gneneral Amnesty of 1872 |
| Settle disputed persidental election of 1876-Democrats agreed to accept Repbulican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in return for the removal of federal troops in teh south | Compromise of 1877 |
| group of southners who helped return the democrats to political power in the south during reconstruction and tried to limit civil rights of african americans | redeemers |
| a special tax a person had to pay in order to vote | poll tax |
| forced seperation of people of different races in public places | segeration |
| laws that enforced segeration in the southern states | Jim crow laws |
| US Supreme Court case that established the seperate but equal doctrine for public facilites | Plessey v. Ferguson |
| system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of crops | sharecropping |
| murdered president lincoln | John Wikes Booth |
| took over preisdent when lincoln died | Andrew Johnson |
| first african american in the US sentate | Hiram Revels |
| Lincolns Reconstruction Program | gave amnesty to all southners who took loyal oath, offered pardon for all illegal acts during rebellion |
| Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Program | returned all property except slaves, presidental pardon for rich southners and confederate officers, required loyalty oath and a ban on slavery |
| Wade-Davis Bill | states had to ban slavery, majority if adult males had to tak loyality oath , permitted southners to vote only if they had never supported confederacy |
| After the civil war ended___________ | many soldiers returned to the south to see there farms destroyed |
| how did the end of the war effect newly freed slaves | travel without restrictions, legalize marriges, and work at home rather then in fields |
| many freed people wanted an education because | to read the bible,understand and protect their rights, help them find better jobs |
| Four Excamples of the balck codes; | sign work contracts,if they could not prove they had a job=arrested, not allowed to own guns, not allowed to rent property in cities |
| Cause: Many republicans feared that the civil rights Act of 1866 would be overturned when the southern states rejoin congress | Fourteenth Amendment was passed |
| Effect: House of REPS voted for presidental impeachment | andrew johnson fired sectary of war |
| Cause: Many african americans voted for the repbulican party in the 1868 election | Effect: Ulysses S. Grant was elected president |
| Cause: Radical Republicans felt that northern states shpuld also grant the vote to African American Men | 15th amendment was passed |
| Northern Republicans = | + |
| literacy tests= | - |
| compromise of 1877= | - |
| Redeemers= | - |
| Jim Crow Laws= | - |
| Civil Rights Act 1875= | + |
| Ku Klux Klan= | - |
| 1876 election= | - |
| Plessy v Ferguson= | + |
| the movement to increase industry in the ecnomy | New South |
| were rebuilt and expanded after the war to increade transportation and shipping | railroads |
| most sucessful industry in the south | textile mills |
| filled the air and caused disease in workers | cotton dust |
| real name of author Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens |
| wrote short stories and books abput people in eastern tenesse | Mary Noailles Murfree |
| protested prejucied through novels about African American in New Orleans | George Washington Cable |
| group of students who traveled to introduce auidences around the world to spirtuals | Fisk Jubilee Singers |
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