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Chapter 15 History
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| terms | descriptions |
|---|---|
| presidential reconstruction | headed by Lincoln and Johnson |
| Proclamation of Anmesty & Reconstruction | 1863, pres. pardons by an oath of allegiance and acceptance of emancipation; state gov'ts reestablished if 10% of the population took oaths |
| Wade-Davis bill | required 50% of the pop. to take oaths, only non-confederates could vote for new constitutions being drawn up |
| Andrew Johnson | self-taugh tailor, TN, Democrat, white supremecist |
| Freedmen's Bureau | provided food, medical care, and shelter to blacks/ homeless whites (Oliver Howard) established black schools/ colleges |
| Black codes | prohibited them from renting land, borrowing money for land; put them in semibondage- vagrants and appentices, kept from testifying in court |
| congressional reconstruction | 3 rounds- 2nd phase- congress adopted a plan, harsher on southern whites and more protective of freed blacks |
| radical republicans | for civil rights for blacks |
| charles sumner | radical republican from Mass |
| Thaddeus stevens | PA, for military rule, civil rightsd, black education |
| Benjamin Wade | Ohio, endorsed womens suffrage, labor union rights, and northern black civil rights |
| Civil Rights act of 1866 | overrode johnson's vetoes, all African AMericans were us citizens |
| 14th amendment | everyone born or denaturalized in the us were citizens, provided for equal protection, confederate pol. leaders couldnt hold office, repudiated conf. debts, and penallized interferences with voting rights |
| equal protection and due process of the law | civil rights in the 14th |
| reconstruction acts of 1867 | put south under military occupation, separated it into 5 districts controlled by the union army, increased readmission requirements so that states had to ratify the 14th |
| tenure of office act | prohibited the president from removing an official without senate consent |
| Edwin Stanton | Sec. of War, removed by johnson, in charge of southern military gof'ts |
| impeachment | trial of the president, vote to have him removed |
| 15th amendment | prohibited any state from denying the right to vote |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | equal accomodations in public places, blacks could be on juries |
| scalawags | hated southern republicans |
| carpetbaggers | hated northern newcomers |
| Blanche K Bruce & Hiram Revels | 2 black senators sent by southern republicans |
| sharecropping | landlord provides seed/tools for black labor, they split the crop |
| spoilsmen | those who give jobs/favors to supporters |
| patronage | giving jobs/favors to supporters |
| Jay Gould | he had a scheme to corner the gold market, made a huge profit |
| Credit Mobilier | insiders gave stocks to congressmen in return for their silence about making profits off of subsidies from building the transcontinental RR |
| Thomas Nast | cartoonist, NY Times, exposed tweed |
| William Tweed | NYC, stole $200 million from taxpayers-- tweed ring |
| Liberal Republicans | reform minded, nominated Horace Greeley in 72 |
| Horace Greeley | editor of the NY tribune, presidential Rep. candidate in 1872 |
| Panic of 1873 | depression, business factors, overbuilding, many jobless, homeless |
| greenbacks | paper money not supported by gold |
| redeemers | southern conservatives, took control of state govt's |
| Ku Klux Klan | by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, flogged, burned, threatened arfican americans |
| Force Acts | 1870- 71, gave federal authority power to stop violence, protect citizens |
| Amnesty Act of 1872 | removed most Confederate restrictions, allowed conservative democrats to vote, retake control of state govts |
| Rutherford B hayes | republican 1876 candidate, gov. of ohio |
| Samuel J Tilden | Democrat nominee, NY reform governor |
| Compromise of 1877 | hayes would become president if he ended federal Rep. support in the south and supported southern transcontinental RR |
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