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L11 V LA H Civil War
Lesson 11 Vocab - LA History - After the Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Black Codes | laws passed in many southern states after the Civil War that were designed to regulate the labor, movements, and behavior of former slaves |
| Battle of Liberty Place | incident of Sept. 1874 in which well-armed, but outnumbered, Republicans fought with White Leaguers, who forced the Repub. to retreat & took control over New Orleans's government until Repub. control was returned by federal troops |
| Colfax Massacre | deadly riot of April 1873; began when heavily armed white Democrats tried to remove Republican electees from the Grant Parish Courthouse |
| Carpetbaggers | insulting term for northerns who came south during Reconstruction (carrying only a small carpet bag); they were suspected of taking advantage of postwar conditons to gain political power & to enrich themselves |
| Disfranchise | to take away the right to vote from someone |
| Freedmen | name given to former slaves |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands; founded in 1865 to provide emergency relief to poor southerners, white & black; established schools & performed marriages for freedmen; reestablished & regulated labor relations with former slaves & masters |
| Home Rule | political power given to political subdivisions to govern their own affairs; term used to describe return of white Democratic political control after Reconstruction |
| Impeachment | process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public offical while that offical is still in office |
| Knights of the White Carmellia | secret paramilitary organization formed in St. Mary Parish that used methods intended to create terror among potential black Republican voters |
| Mechanics' Institute Riot | deadly 1866 confrontation as former slaves & Republicans battled former Confederate Democrats at the Mechanics' Institute building in New Orleans |
| Reconstruction | name given to the time between the Civil War & 1877, the year the federal government withdrew the last troops in the South; describes attempts to reconstruct the nation in the aftermath of civil war & secession |
| Reconstruction Acts | four pieces of legislation passed by Congress in 1867 & 1868 that divided the states of the former Confederacy into 5 districts & put them under military control |
| Redeemers | Democrats who, after the end of Mlitary Reconstruction, saw themselves as redeeming southern honor as they returned white Democratic political control in the South |
| Radical Republicans | members of Congress who believed the South's citizens should be punished for seceding &, in their view, causing the war |
| Returning Board | board formed during Reconstruction that had the power to determine whether election outcomes (returns) were legitimate or products of fraud/intimidation |
| Ten Percent Plan {Whose Plan? Requirements for Fufillment?} | Ab. Lincoln's Recontruction plan; under its terms once 10% of the men who voted during the 1860 election swore a loyalty oath to the Union & the state accepted the abolition of slavery & promised to not compensate former slave holders...(effect) |
| White League | paramilitary organization, formed in 1874, that was committed to restoring the state to white Democratic rule by whatever means necessary |
| Ten Percent Plan {Effects of Fufillment?} | (requirements)... a state could form a new government, elect representative to Congress, write a new constition, & return to the Union |
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EKrue
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