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us history
chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Radical Reconstruction | was the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 to 1877. The term also refers to the process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states |
| 14th amendment | did not specifically give African Americans the vote.did specify that if any state prevented a portion of its male citizens from voting, that state would lose a percentage of its congressional seats |
| Radical Republicans | Lincoln’s moderate Reconstruction plan angered a minority of Republicans in Congress |
| Black Codes | had the effect of restoring many of the restrictions of slavery by prohibiting blacks from carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, marrying whites, and traveling without permits |
| Civil Rights act | 1866- gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws |
| Moderate Republicans | members of the Republican party that shared the views of that party but did not go to the drastic means that the Radicals did. |
| Freedman's Bureau | established by Congress in the last month of the war, assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food |
| 15th amendment | Radicals introduced, which states that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” |
| Enforcement Act of 1870 | Congress passed, giving the federal government more power to punish those who tried to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights. |
| Wade-Davis Bill | was made into response of the 10% Plan which proposed that Congress, not the president, be responsible for Reconstruction |
| Sharecropper | landowners divided their land and gave each worker (either freed African Americans) a few acres along with seed and tools. |
| carpetbaggers | The Democrats used an equally unflattering name for the Northerners, The name referred to the belief that Northerners arrived with so few belongings that everything could fit in a carpetbag, |
| Hiram Revels | -first African American in the senator |
| Tenant Farmers | even rent land for cash from the planters, and keep all their harvest, Eventually they might move up the economic ladder to become outright owners of their farms. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Founded as a social club for Confederate veterans, Its overarching goal was to restore white supremacy. Its method was to prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights |
| Credit Mobileir- | in which a construction company had skimmed off large profits from a government railroad contract. This scandal involved several leading Republicans, including Grant’s first vice-president, Schuyler Colfax |
| Scalawag | name used for Democrats, calling white Southerners who joined the Republican Party |
| Amnesty Act | returned the right to vote and the right to hold federal and state offices—revoked by the Fourteenth Amendment—to about 150,000 former Confederates, who would almost certainly vote Democratic. |
| Redemption | the Democrats called their return to power in the South |
| part 2 Compromise of 1877 | Second, the Democrats wanted federal money to build a railroad from Texas to the West Coast and to improve Southern rivers, harbors, and bridges. |
| part 1 0f the Compromise of 1877 | the withdrawal of federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina—two of the three Southern states that Republicans still governed |
| part 3 of the compromise of 1877 | Third, they wanted Hayes to appoint a conservative Southerner to the cabinet. Also the end of reconstruction in the south |
| Slaughterhouse cases | Most civil rights were ruled to be state, rather than federal, rights and therefore unprotected by the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| U.S vs Reese | The Fifteenth Amendment was determined not to grant voting rights to anyone, but rather to restrict types of voter discrimination |
| home rule | the ability to run state governments without federal intervention. |
| Greenbacks | paper money that was not backed by equal value in gold. |
| 10% Plan | Lincolns plan for readmitting southern states back into the Union, as long as 10 percent of the people pledge allegiance to the Union |
| Liberal | wanting change, not drastic |
| Conservative | do not want change, not drastic, |
| Reactionary | do not want change, drastic, will be violent |
| Radical | wanting change, drastic, willing to be violent |
| Tenure of Office Act | stated that the president could not remove cabinet officers “during the term of the president by whom they may have been appointed” without the consent of the Senate |
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