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World History 11
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Reconstruction | 1865-1877, the end of the civil war. adding the 11 states to theunion and deal with the end of slavery. Reconstruction stabilized the US and the southern states economically. defined and protect the rights of freed slaves. Johnson led reconstruction. |
Radical reconstruction | 1867-77, harsh for south, imposed strict requirements to join the Union. The South divided into 5 different military districts. rights for African Americans. Senate led it . 14th Amendment protection to U.S.-born people. 15th Amendment, voting rights, |
Radicals | thought a win for the North meant that blacks would be free and have the right to vote. Southern states could be readmitted after some time, and leaders of the confederacy would not lead the new state governments. |
Moderate republicans | People who were not left or right, but centrist. Supported abolition of slavery, but did not agree to harsh measures taken toward the South. Supported the 13th and 14th amendments but were cautious about allowing voting. |
Republicans: | Northerners have been union supporters since the Civil War. Radical, moderate, and liberal republicans. 13 14 15 amendments, and rebuild the south based on loyalty and equality to the union, using mi, Ital,y, and laws. |
Democrats | Southern whites, who supported the Confederacy. restore white control in the South and opposed civil rights and suffrage for blacks. KKK and black codes, Jim Crow laws after Reconstruction. Johnson and Southern states leaders led. |
Southern states respond Johnson | lenient approach, which allowed southern states to regain power presidential pardons acceptance of the 13th Amendment, but did not demand equal rights for blacks. Confederates passed the black codes sharecropping and other things. |
Northerners in Congress respond to Johnson | Northerners were furious; they felt Johnson was too soft on the South. He pardoned Confederates and let them into office. They wanted full rights and voting for freedmen. And a more substantial federal government role to enforce civil rights |
Freedman Bureau: | Lincoln established the Freedmen's Bureau, which provided aid, education, and support to formerly enslaved people and poor whites. Democrats agreed with Johnson and wanted the economy to go back to normal. |
Johnson’s response: | He opposed it; he vetoed it to extend it into 1866. He didn’t believe the government should be involved in Southern affairs. Congress overrode his veto. |
Congress response: | Congress overrode the veto. They strongly supported it. It was essential to helping enslaved people survive after emancipation. Some Radical Republicans wanted the Bureau to help distribute land to freedmen with the 40 acres and a mule. |
Congress v Johnson’s | take on the Civil Rights Act of 1866: |
Civil Rights Act of 1866: | It was designed to give blacks full citizenship and equal rights. |
Johnson vetoed the bill of Civil Rights Act of 1866 | arguing it’s unconstitutional and favored blacks over whites. He didn’t want the federal government to enforce racial equality. |
Congress overrode his veto Civil Rights Act of 1866 | and radicals pushed to pass the bill. Became the first law to protect all citizens. Led to Johnson’s impeachment. |
The Northerners formed Union leagues Civil Rights Act of 1866 | to support the Union and acted like Political clubs and community centers for free black men to vote. |
How white poor southerners were affected Civil Rights Act of 1866 | provided jobs, food, and education to all poor people in the south, is what the bureau and reconstruction programs did. |
Education in the South during Reconstruction Civil Rights Act of 1866 | the bureau hired teachers for schools nationwide and funded them with taxes. Segregated but open to everyone. Teachers and students faced violence and intimidation. |
Sharecropping | blacks did not have money or land to start their farms. The deal was to farm a piece of land in exchange for a piece of the crops. |
Southern whites' power during Reconstruction- | did not want to lose their power, through black codes, kkk, and sharecropping. |