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23 Cards in this Set
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6 parts of Radical Reconstruction Plan
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1. South under military rule-divided into 5 military districts governed by northern generals.
2. Hold new election & write new constitutions. 3. Allow all qualified males to vote. 4. Temporarily barred CSA supporters from voting. 5. Guarantee equal rights for all citizens. 6. Must radify the 14th ammendment. |
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Full name of Freedmen's Bureau
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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
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Full name of KKK
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Ku Klux Klan
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Purpose of KKK
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The KKK terrorized and threatened African Americans to control them and create fear of getting equal rights.
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Characteristics of Republicans and Democrats:
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Republicans: from the north, industrial, from the Union, many were Radical Republicans, wanted equal rights, rebuild South like North
Democrats:from the South, agricultural, CSA, wanted ways back to "Old South" |
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Republican Scandals effects
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unqualified people were in key positions and took bribes, many republicans lost interest and motivation in Reconstruction
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Scalawags
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nickname for a Southerner who agreed/sided with the North Radical Reconstruction Plan
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Thaddeus Stevens
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the leader of the Radical Republicans
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Panic of 1873
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banks made bad loans, went broke so the stock market crashed, railroads went broke, companies went out of business, people lost jobs and everyone blamed Grant and Republicans
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Tenure Office Act
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an act passed by Congress that said President Johnson couldn't fire official without permission of Senate
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5 District Military Rule
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South divided into 5 military districts run by North generals
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Andrew Johnson
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Lincoln's VP, southern democrat and former salve owner, fought against Republican Congress (RR)
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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a Supreme Court case in which the Jim Crow laws were declared constitutional
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New South
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-elected delegates to create new state constitutions
-establish AA schools and rights -former CSA supporters could not vote -more industrial |
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Edwin Stanton
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fired by AJ in response to Tenure Office Act, former secretary of war
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Jim Crow Laws
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laws that created a seperate but equal policy in which whites and blacks had to use seperate facilities like schools, restuarants, water fountains etc.
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President Grant
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elected in 1868, reelected in 1872, fought KKK after increased terror b/c of 15th ammendment
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Carpetbaggers
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northerners who came to South to "help out"
-tought AA, rebuilt -take advantage for personal gain ($) |
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segregation
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seperation of races
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Civil Rights Act
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14th ammendment, gauranteed rights to all men (not women or N.A.) born in US
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Radical Republicans
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group that controlled Congress, led by Thaddeus Stevens, wanted to run Recon, against slavery
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Compromise of 1877
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1. Fed Gov would would remove military rule in South
2. Land grants and loans for railroads connecting south and west. 3. Funding for other S projects (rebuilding). 4. Democrat in the cabinet 5. South would respect AA rights (didn't really happen...) |
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Tenant Farming
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type of farming where farmers paid to rent land and chose what to plant and when to work
-tenant farmers had higher social class then sharecroppers |
