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Flashcards by Michael Brydges, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michael Brydges
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Lincoln's 10% Plan | •Did not consult Congress •10% of state voting population had to take oath to United States + government •Way back into the Union •Mockery of democracy |
| Wade-Davis Bill | •July 1864 •white male majority government •be delegate to constitution (Ironclad Oath) •Officers above lieutenant in Confederation not longer American citizens |
| 13th Amendment | •Passed January 31 1865 •abolishment of slavery |
| Freedman's Bureau | •Created March 1865 •relief, education + employment for former slaves/white refugee •founded over 4000 schools |
| Black's Freedom Path | •Often ended up working for the farms they were freed from •try to reunite families • "Sea Islands" •Education (600k by 1877) •Religion (by 1877 African Methodist Episcopal had 1k ministers + 40k members) •"Sharecropping" |
| Sea Islands | •General Sherman's Special Field Order number 15 •February 1865 •400k acres in Sea Islands for freed-people •President Johnson order removal in October |
| Sharecropping | •materialized by 1868 •tenants give land owners portion of crop •tenant given all supplies •lead to perma-debt |
| Andrew Johnson | •Succeeded Lincoln •White supremacist •"Pardon Policy" •The South's Champion (retuning power to the Old Elite) •Congress challenged his authority •Trialed For Impeachment |
| Black Code | Revision of slave code Black people had to: carry passes, abide by curfew, house provided by landowner State School&Orphanages excluded blacks |
| Radicals | •Radical Republicans: Thaddeus Stevens •favoured black suffrage •pushed for land redistribution •willing to exclude the south |
| 14th Amendment | •U.S citizen is anyone born in the U.S.A •State could not interfere with citizens constitutional right •Stated voters must be male |
| Reconstruction Act | •First passed in March 1867 •Federal military districts •New state constitutions •Black male suffrage in states •States must ratify 14th Amendment |
| "Negro Rule" | •Idea of Blacks Dominating •Rally cry for white supremacist •A myth to hold onto white power |
| Carpetbaggers & Scalawags | Carpetbaggers White northerns who support blacks Scalawags white southerners who cooperated w/ Republicans Terms deemed by Conservatives |
| Ku Klux Klan | Referred to as KKK secret veterans club (est. Tennessee, 1866) Committed mass terrorism Reason for "Enforcement Acts" |
| Enforcement Acts | •1870 and 1871 •To protect black voters •To end KKK terror •Violations of civil/political rights now federal offence |
| Knights of Labor | lead by Terence C. Powerdly No child, conviction labour Equal Pay Public land for settles Modern day left-winged liberals Became The Peoples Party |
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