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Ch 16 AJ
Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the lost cause? | Phrase that white southerners applied to their civil war defeat. They viewed their loss as a noble cause and only a temporary setback. |
| What was the Freedmen's Bureau? | Agency established by congress in 1865 to provide social, educational, and economic services, advice, and protection to former slaves and destitute whites. |
| What was "Field Order 15 (40 acres and a mule)? | Order to set aside abandoned land along the southern Atlantic coast for 40 acre grants to freedmen members. |
| What was the southern homestead act? | Largely unsuccessful law passed in 1866 that gave black people preferential access to public lands in five southern states. |
| What Were the "Black Codes"? | Laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free blacks after the civil war. |
| What was the 14 amendment? | Passed by congress in 1866 guaranteeing every citizen equality before the law by prohibiting states from violating the civil rights of their citizens. Outlawed the Black Codes. |
| What was Congressional Reconstruction? | Name given to the period 1867-1870 when the republican-dominated congress controlled the reconstruction era policy. |
| What was the 15 amendment? | Passed by congress in 1869 guaranteeing the right of american men to vote, regardless of race. |
| What were scalawags? | Southern Whites, mainly small landowning farmers, who supported the southern republican party during reconstruction. |
| What were Carpetbaggers? | Northern transplants to the south, many of whom were union soldiers who stayed in the south after the civil war. |
| What were Union Leagues? | Republican party organizations in northern cities that became an important device among freedmen in southern cities after 1865. |
| What was the Ku Klux Klan? | Vigilante group that terrorized black people in the south during reconstruction era. Founded by confederate veterans. |
| What was the Compromise of 1877? | Congressional settling of the 1876 election which made Rutherford B. Hayes as president, but gave democrats control of all state governments in the south. |
| What was sharecropping? | Labor system that evolved during and after the reconstruction era where landowners furnished laborers with a house, farm, animals, and tools and advanced credit in exchange for a share of the laborers crop. |
| What were the Slaughterhouse cases? | Decision by the US Supreme court in 1873 that contradicted the 14 amendment by decreeing that most citizen ship rights remained under the control of the state governments. |
| What was the court case "US vs. Cruikshank" and its ruling? | Overturned the convictions of some of the members of the Colfax massacre ruling that the Enforcement act applied to violations of black rights by states, not individuals. |
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