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What group thought the Sounth should be punished?
Radical Republicans
Who became president of Washington College?
Rober E. Lee
(Washington & Lee)
Who fought for the adoption of Constitutional Amendments for voting rights?
Robert E Lee
14th Amendment
grants citizenship to those born in the united states
Freedmans Bureau
Was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the Sounth
After reconstruction, many of the rights that African Americans had gained were lost through the use of what
Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws
What divided th 10 Southern States who had refused to ratify the 14th amendment into 5 military districts?
First Reconstructions Act
Who was banned from holding public office?
Souther Military Leaders
Who were poor white farmers who went along with Radical Repulicans
Scalawags (scoundrels)
Who moved south carrying cheap suitcases? Southeners accused them of coming to the south to get rich or seek political office.
Carpetbaggers
Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1876 election?
Samuel J. Tilden
Why was Ruther B Hays and Tilden election significant?
It ended Reconstruction
What deal was made by the election commitee?
If Rutherford B. Hayes became president, Federal troops would withdrw from the South
Lines of latitude are called?
Parallels
Lines of longitude are called?
meridians
The 0 line of latitude is called?
Equater
What are the physical features or climate of the great plains
Flatlands rise gradually from east to west, low rainfall, dust storms adn erosion.
Name the Nonsontiguous states
Alaska Hawaii
Name the states of the southwest region?
Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona
Visions of Abraham Lincoln?
reconcilliation, preserve union more important than the punishing the south - Malice toward none & charity for one
Visions of Robert E Lee
Urged Southernes to reunite with the north as Americans
President of
13th amendment
bans slavery in the US and many of its territories.
15th amendment
ensures citizens the right to vote regardless of race color or previous condition of servitude.
What were the positive consequesces or Reconstruction?
1)African americans were elected to public office
2)African american gained equal rights through Civil Righrs act of 1866 which authorized federal troops fro its enforcement
3) Freedmans Bureau was established
What were the negative consequences of Reconstruction?
southern military leaders barred from public office
Northern soldiers supervised the south
Reconstruction laws were harsh in the south & created problems
Black codes
Describe political social and economic legacies of reconstruction
1)AA migrate to the north and west
2)Share cropping and tenant faming
3)Southern government tried methods to deprive AA to vote
4)AA gains were lost black codes and jim crow laws
5) resented carpetbaggers
Black Crow Laws?
Laws passed at controlling the feedmen adn enabling plantation owners to exploit AA workers
Freedmans Bureau
Allowed courts to prosecute those who violated the rights of the AA
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Granted full citizenship to AA
First Reconstruction Act
Divided the 10 southern states who had refused to ratify the 14th amendment into 5 military districts.
Second Reconstruction Act
Required the militray commanders of the southern district to begin reconstruction.
Tenure of Aoffice Act
prohibited the president from firing government officials. limiting pres. powers
Jim Crow Laws
Required AA to be seperated in almost every public place
Who could not hold public office?
Southern Military Leaders
Who could hold public office
Blacks
Who Supervised the south?
Northern soldiers
Southeners resented these people because they took advantage of the South
Carpetbaggers
How did reconstruction end?
Election of 1876 between Rutherford b Hayes and Tilden
How did the end of reconstruction hurt AA
Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes
Lines of Latitude run east and west and measure the distance of what?
North and south of the equater
Lines of Longitude runnorth and south and measure the distance of what?
East and West of the prime meridian.
Describe the Great Plains
Great American Desert/prairie grasses/flatlands/water and wind erosion/low rainfall/frequent dust storms/treeless wasteland
What did the Transcontinental railroad do for people?
Spanned entire continent form Spanned East to West
Encouraged people to settle in the west
got products to market faster
Congress passed a bill calling for two companies to develop what? They game $$ and millions of acres.
The Trancontinental Railroad
Where did the Central Pacific start?
Sacramento California and build east
Where did the Union Pacific Start?
Omaha Nebraska and build west.
Where did the two tracks meet?
Promontory Point (gold spike was driven in)
Who worked on the Central Pacific
The Chinese
Who worked on the Union Pacific
Former soldiers, freed slaves and immigrants
Both occasionally hired who?
Native americans
New technologies that encouraged settlement of the great plains
Transcontinental Railroad, steel plow and dry farming techniques allowed farmers to grow wheat, windmills, barbed wire;sod houses, well