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30 Cards in this Set
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Ten Percent Plan
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Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction
Southern state could form a new government after ten percent of its voters swore allegiance to the U.S The new government has to abolish sslavery |
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Reconstruction Plan 1867
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Throws out southern goverments
unless Write new constitution Ratify 14th Amendment African Americans must be able to vote |
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Freedmen
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men and women who had been slaves
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Three groups that dominated Southern government during Reconstruction
Down south, good dogs run after cattle, foxes, and sheep |
Dominating
Southern Governments During Reconstruction Are Carperbaggers Freedman And Scalawags |
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Problems in the South after the Civil War
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Destruction of homes, barns, bridges and 2/3rds of the railroads
Financial system in ruin - Confederate money was worthless Ended an economy based on slave labor Death of a quarter-million men |
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Freedman's Bureau
President Johnson failed many confident states following feeble bylaws |
Poor Whites
Jobs Food medicine clothing schools Former slaves/ freedmen Freedman's Bureau |
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Reconstruction Act
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Johnson vetoed
Passed the veto and threw out any southern state government that refused to ratify the 14th Amendment |
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Remember which states remained under Republican control.
Rebelling Southerners Commanded Fraudulent Laws |
Republican
South Carolina Florida Louisiana |
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Charles Sumner
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Led the Radical Republicans in the Senate
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who went south after the Civil War
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Reason for refusal of Southern representatives
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Deprived African Americans of the right to vote
Elected former Confederates to office |
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Led the Radical Republicans in the House
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Radical Reconstruction
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Period after the Civil War
Republicans controlled Congress and passed strict laws regarding the South |
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Blanche K. Bruce
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Black who won a Senate seat during Reconstruction
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Passed in January 1865
Banned slavery throughout the nation Required an oath of loyalty to the United States |
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Radical Republicans Goals
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Break the power of the rich Southern planters
Ensure freedmen had the right to vote |
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Former Slaves receive
food clothing jobs medical care set up schools also helped poor whites |
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poll tax
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A fee charged each time a person voted
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Equal protection to all born in the U.S.
Illegal to discriminate on unreasonable grounds such as race |
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Impeach
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According to the Constitution, the House can remove the President from office for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
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Andrew Johnson
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Vice President
Became President after Lincoln's assassination Radical Republicans attempted to impeach him but failed by one vote. |
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Sharecroppers
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Many freedmen and poor whites worked on farms of large large planters and paid to use the land with part of their crop
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Charlotte Forten
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rich, well-educated African American woman
taught freed slaves |
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Black Codes
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laws that limited the rights of freedmen in the
South after the Civil War |
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Wade Davis Bill
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Required the majority of white men in each southern state swear loyalty to the Union
Denied the right to vote and to hold office to anyone who fought for the Confederacy |
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Segregation
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Seperated black and whites from attending the same schools
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Former general who became President in 1868
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Scalawags
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Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
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Rutherford Hayes
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First post-Reconstruction President
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Literacy Tests
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Used to make it difficult for uneducated freedmen to vote
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