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APUSH Chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ten Percent Plan | proposed by Lincoln: when 10% of the states swear an oath of loyalty, they can be readmitted into the union and offered pardons for rebels who swear allegiance **rejected by congress |
| Black Codes | Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War that denying ex-slaves civil rights , punished vague crimes such as "vagrancy" or failing to have a labor contract, and tried to force African Americans back to plantation labor systems |
| Freedman's Bureau | Created by congress to provide jobs, aid and education for newly freed slaves. Vetoed by Johnson but overridden. |
| 14th Amendment | granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | - each state must ratify the 14th and 15th amendment - former confederate officials couldn't vote or hold office - south was divided into 5 military zones |
| 15th Amendment | gave African American men the right to vote |
| Sharecropping | The labor system by which landowners and impoverished southern farmworkers, particularly African Americans, divided the proceeds from crops harvested on the landowner's property. |
| Scalawags | Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction and were ridiculed by ex-Confederates as worthless traitors |
| Carpetbaggers | A derisive name given by ex-Confederates to northerners who, motivated by idealism or the search for personal opportunity or profit, moved to the South during Reconstruction |
| "Redemption" | A term used by southern Democrats for the overthrow of elected governments that ended Reconstruction in many parts of the South. |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President of the United States. loyal to the union Wanted to follow Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan but... - hated wealthy southerners - did not want to expand freed slave's rights - wanted support of white southerns |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Radical Republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Proposed by the Radical Republicans. Majority of the citizens in a state had to take the loyalty and only male citizens who never aided in the rebellion could vote and hold office. **vetoed by Lincoln |
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