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24 Cards in this Set
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Describe Lincoln and Johnson's reconstruction plans. dates?
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1865-67
- "floundering" plans that weren't going to be successful |
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What questions were presented about the South during reconstruction?
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1. legal status of states
2. what to do with the freedmen |
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what was the 14th amendment? date?
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- 1866
- basically granted citizenship for blacks - all prewar confed office holders were disqualified |
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what was the 13th amendment? date?
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- 1865
- abolished slavery |
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what was the 15th amendment? date? loopholes?
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-1870
-basically enfranchised the blacks -loopholes: did not say that blacks could hold office, did not say that they can't place voting restrictions |
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*when was recontruction strongest? what act started it? what was congresional reconstruction? what ended reconstruction?
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1867-1872
- reconstruction act - 5 military districts - have to create new state constitution and have it approved by congress - have to ratify the 14th amendment - eventually will be let back into the union - KKK, ex parte milligan, panic of 1873 (shows other issues that people needed to worry about) |
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what is the civil rights act? what does it become? what was it first to do?
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-1866
- made blacks have equal rights to all citizens - first major law to pass over presidential veto -eventually becomes 14th amendment |
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what was the Freedman's Bureau? What was it first to do?
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- created to help freedmen settle into society
- first to provide for confiscated federal property - johnson had issue with it because he felt that they were not using the military constitutionally |
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what were black codes? why were they created?
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- created to restrict the rights of freed blacks
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who made up the new southern electorate? who was the majority?
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- carpetbaggers
- scalawags - MAJORITY= BLACKS |
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what did johnson do in order to get impeached?
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- violated the tenure of office act
- went around denouncing the 14th amendment - said that the freedman's bureau and the civil rights act of 1866 are unconstitutional - said FB: doesnt use army constitutionally - said CRA: favors one race over another - wasn't impeached because realized that they were only disagreeing with his ideas on political grounds |
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2 different women responses to 15th amendment?
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1. a push towards woman's voting after blacks
2. a push away from woman's voting because doesn't include women, just all men. |
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*who were anthony and Stone? what woman suffrage associations were created?
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-anthony wanted an amendment for woman voting
- national woman suffrage association -stone wanted it to pass within states - american woman suffrage association |
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What happened to congressional reconstruction from 1872-1877
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starts to go downhill with creation of vigilante groups (ex. KKK)
- panic of 1873- shows that people had other things that was taking their mind away from the civil war - ex parte vs. milligan- gets rid of freedman's bureau - |
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what was created in response to the vigilante groups?
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enforcement acts
1. people were afraid to speak in court 2. stationed troops at polls kkk act - threatened with punishment |
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how did freedmen confront their freedom?
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- searched for loved ones who were seperated during slavery
- exodusters - established institutions (schools, churches, etc.) |
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elements of grantism
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- corruption, bribery, fraud
- ex. credit mobilizer, whisky ring, tweedy |
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*ex parte v. milligan
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- got rid of freedman's bureau's power because can't do military courts
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ex parte v. merryman
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- can't suspend habeaus corpus. came at lincoln
- shows lincolns imperial presidency.... using his executive powers |
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what did the freedmen do for jobs? why?
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- extremely difficult to start own farm due to lack of capital and white resistence to selling blacks land because they wanted to keep them dependent land workers
- as a result entered sharecropping and crop lien system |
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describe the sharecropping and crop lien system
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- sharecropping: worked portion of land owned by farmers and gave farmers a share of their crops in return
- needed supplies so they entered the crop lien system which promised another portion of their crops to the merchants - if anything went wrong (bad weather, can't sell, can't grow crop, etc.) goes into debt and is tied to the land |
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what happened with the panic of 1873
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- after the civil war many people invested money in the RR (expected long term returns of money)
-Cook- owns largest bank in US- collects money in bank - the RR dont produce enough profit in enough time and the bank fails which causes the panic of 1873 - results: started currency dispute - RR crashing hurt everyone - effects joining labor unions because everyone needed money and didnt complain (?) |
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explain the currency sitution and how they resolved it
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- post civil war 2 different kids of money (yellow currency-gold and greenback-paper silver,stocks,bonds)but the great amount of money deflated the money's value so they looked to solve the problem by eliminating greenbacks
- didn't want to inconvenience those who had a lot of money in greenbacks so they created a 10 year plan in which they would make the yellow currency standard - plan called the SPECIE RESUMPTION ACT |
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what happened in the election of 1876? what act came out of it? significance?
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- it was a tie between hayes and tilden
- COMPROMISE OF 1877- tilden and hayes made an agreement that tilden would give hayes the right amount of electoral votes to win if hayes ended reconstruction and in return he would recognize the blacks as citizens. (promises not exactly kept) MARKS END OF RECONTRUCTION |
