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DSST Civil War: Reconstruction
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1. Restricted the rights and movements of newly freed African Americans; 1) prohibited blacks from either renting land or borrowing money to buy land; 2) placed freemen into a form of semi bondage by forcing them - as 'vagrants' and 'apprentices' to sig
Carpetbaggers
Black Codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Civil War casualties
2. Republican Rutherford Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden run for President. Hayes promises to end the Reconstruction and allows Southern staets to establish the black codes. Caused the end of the Reconstruction in 1877
Johnson's Reconstruction plan
Election of 1876
KKK
Peace Democrats
3. 1. amnesty to all but few southerners who took oath of loyalty 2. 10% percent of state voters (1860 elect.) taken oath could organize state gov. 3. members of conf. gov officers of army - former federal judges - members of congress could not receive
4. US Democrats who didn't support the war and hoped to reunite the states through negotiation
Peace Democrats
13th ammendment
Command of Army Act
Wade-Davis
5. Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South - 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general) - 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
14th ammendment
swing around the circle
Compromise of 1877
Black Codes
6. Sub-division of the fractured democratic party. Consisting of a large portion - the war democrats patriotically supported the Lincoln administration. These democrats did not pose as big a threat to the Union as the Peace Democrats or copperheads.
Fall of Richmond
ratification
impeachment
War Democrats
7. 1. called the Wade- Davis Bill 2. 50% of population swear loyalty for states to rejoin 3. Blacks have equal sufferage - rights - equality 4. states must draft new constitution banning slavery - bill passed both houses of Congress on July 2 - 1864 - b
swing around the circle
Election of 1876
Radical Republicans Reconstruction
Black Codes
8. Set the guidelines for what is a citizen; all persons born or naturalized in the united states are citizens and are protected by the constitution - equal protection - due process - made the bill of rights apply to the states
Election of 1876
14th ammendment
suffrage
impeachment
9. Passed by the congressional republicans. essentially wiped out Johnson's programs. divided the former confederacy to five military districsa. a union general was placed in charge of each district.
KKK
Compromise of 1877
military reconstruction
impeachment
10. Formal approval - final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty
Civil Rights Act of 1866
swing around the circle
ratification
Tenure of Office Act
11. Created to grant citizenship to blacks and it was an attempt to prohibit the black codes; prohibited racial discrimination on jury selection; not really enforced and was really just a political move used to attract more votes. It led to the creation
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1866
ratification
13th ammendment
12. Approved in January 1865. It banned slavery thoughout the nation
Tenure of Office Act
military reconstruction
13th ammendment
14th ammendment
13. April 9 - 1865 - signifying an end to the Civil War
Fall of Richmond
Election of 1876
War Democrats
Jefferson Davis
14. Formal accusation by the lower house of a legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
impeachment
Civil Rights Act of 1866
13th ammendment
KKK
15. 633 - 000
swing around the circle
suffrage
Command of Army Act
Civil War casualties
16. It's purpose was to assist refugees - poor - and homeless former slaves - provided - food - medicine - legal advice on labor contracts - and could request military courts to intervene for the freemen - underfunded
17. 1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from removing a radical republican from his cabinet
swing around the circle
military reconstruction
Tenure of Office Act
Wade-Davis
18. Served two years in prison for his role in the rebellion.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Tenure of Office Act
Radical Republicans Reconstruction
Jefferson Davis
19. 1. Amnesty and pardon except for rich rebels with taxable property of $20 -000 or more - Individual Pardons 3. Revoke ordinance of secession 3. Ratified the 13th amendment 4. Repudiate all confederate Debts - 5. Election of new state officials - Elec
20. The right to vote.
Lincoln's reconstruction plan
ratification
suffrage
15th ammendment
21. Refers to a disastrous speaking campaign undertaken by U.S. President Andrew Johnson - in which he tried to gain support for his mild Reconstruction policies and for his preferred candidates (mostly Democrats)
Radical Republicans Reconstruction
Wade-Davis
swing around the circle
Lincoln's reconstruction plan
22. An act issued in 1867 that forced Andrew Johnson to issue military orders through the general of the army (then Ulysses S. Grant) instead of directly to the south.
Tenure of Office Act
ratification
Command of Army Act
Carpetbaggers
23. Voting rights; all citizens have the right to vote no matter what - color - race - previous condition of servitude. women could still not vote
Fall of Richmond
Black Codes
15th ammendment
KKK
24. White southerners who cooperated with and served in Reconstruction governments; generally eligible to vote - they were usually considered traitors to their states
KKK
13th ammendment
Scalawags
14th ammendment
25. He intentionally violates Tenure Act because it was set upt to get him impeached by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stantin - at the Trial his lawyer says his only crime is opposing Congress - 12 democrats and 7 republicans vote him 'not guilty' - so h
26. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
impeachment
Carpetbaggers
Radical Republicans Reconstruction
Jefferson Davis
27. Founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence;
KKK
suffrage
Tenure of Office Act
military reconstruction
28. The _________ Bill was a harsher alternative to Lincoln's 10% Plan; called for 50% of eligible voters (Caucasian men) to petition for statehood; attempt by Radical Republican-filled Congress to take power from the executive branch; vetoed by Lincoln
Fall of Richmond
Wade-Davis
Carpetbaggers
14th ammendment