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chapter 15 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 13th Amendment (1865) | Legally abolished slavery, except as "punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th Pres. of the US, South. from Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed. Opposed radical Reps who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. 1st U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only 1 vote. Very weak president. |
| Black Codes | Laws to regulate Black behavior and impose social and economic order |
| 14th Amendment | 1) Citizenship for African Americans, 2) Repeal of 3/5 Compromise 3) define all Americans born persons are citizens 4) states must protect all people equally |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Civil War American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). |
| Black officeholders | For a period of time, the south was transformed from an all-white, proslavery and Democratic stronghold into collection of Republican-led states with African Americans into positions of power. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Organization set up to support the formerly enslaved. Set up to distribute lands of former confederates to formerly enslaved people, this promise of land was not honored. |
| Black churches and schools | buildings serving as both places of worship and education, became centers of the struggle for freedom |
| American Equal Rights Association | Organization founded in 1866 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to secure equal rights for all citizens regardless of race or sex. Split over support of the 15th Amendment |
| 15th Amendment (1870) | U.S. cannot prevent a man from voting because of race, color, or creed. |
| National Woman Suffrage Association | Organization split from the AERA, created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. An organization founded in 1890 to demand the vote for women |
| Ladies Memorial Associations | Organizations formed in the South after the Civil War to commemorate Confederate soldiers, perpetuated the "lost cause" narrative. |
| Racial Violence | attacks used to stifle Black advancement and return the old social order |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
| Black Towns | Residents took pride in the fact that African Americans owned all the property in towns, including business, banks, insurance companies and surrounding farms |
| Sharecropping | A 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 the crops. |
| redeemers | Largely former slave owners who were bitterest opps of Rep. program in South. Staged major counterrevolution by taking back southern state govs. Foundation rested on idea of racism, white supremacy. Waged aggressive assault on African Americans of South |
| Depression of 1873 | Brought on by over expansive tendencies of railroad builders and businessmen during the immediate postwar boom, the Panic was triggered by economic downturns in Europe and by the failure of Jay Cooke's bank. |
| Compromise of 1877 | Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise to remove military from South, if Southern Democrats would recognize the election of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes . |
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