11 & 12 Flashcards
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What events followed the election of Lincoln?
- Secession of the Southern States
Virginia and 3 other states seceded, forming 11 Confederate states, while West Virginia broke away and joined the Union. - Formation of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis’s court after he said he was just going to bring food in for hungry men. Davis eventually picked war and made Anderson surrender after 4000 rounds of ammunition.
Attack on Fort Sumner
What states seceded?
South Carolina (December 20, 1860) (FIRST)
How did the Civil War start?
Fort Sumter is attacked: A fort that was under Union control, Lincoln sent supplies over, South attacked
What was Lincoln’s plan after the succession?
Wanted to wait for the other side to start the war. Sent reinforcements to South Carolina. The South attacked them there (Fort Sumter).
What was the significance of the 1866 Congressional election?
Radical Republicans get ⅔ control of both houses of Congress and can override any future Johnson veto. Republicans got a super majority and could veto all of the president’s laws.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Slavery was completely abolished, meaning it was against the law to own slaves in any part of the U.S.
Who was in charge of the Reconstruction of the South?
Andrew Johnson
What is the 15th Amendment?
Black men were allowed to become congressmen
- Elected because lots of slaves were freed and voted for their kind. Allowed African Americans to vote.
What did African Americans do to rebuild their lives after the Civil War?
Tried to unite with their missing family members, learned how to read and write, and there were African institutions to help
How/why did reconstruction end?
In the Presidential election of 1876, putting Republican Rutherford B Hayes in office in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops in the South.
People did not want to pay taxes on the army or troops in the South.
Ku Klux Klan
Violent terrorist organizations prevented African Americans from exercising their political rights. Killed thousands of African men, women, and children, burned down schools and churches, and believed in white supremacy.
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Bureau, established by Congress in the last month of the war, assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food. Also set up more than 40 hospitals, 4000 schools, 61 industrial institutes, 74 teacher-training center
Radical Republicans
People who felt strongly that slave owners should have no political power; also wanted African Americans to have full citizenship and the right to vote.
Carpetbaggers
Name for Northerners because they came with few belongings that could fit in a small piece of luggage. They had mixed motives with some being Freedman Bureau agents, teachers, and ministers, who felt a moral duty to help former slaves. Others were dishonest and just wanted to make a profit.
Scalawags
Democrats opposed to the Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction, called white Southerners who joined the Republican Party scalawags. Some scalawags hope to gain political offices with the help of African Americans votes and then use those offices to enrich themselves. Scalawags believed that the Republican government offered the best chances for the South to rebuild and industrialize
14 Amendment (1865) ratified in 1868
- Define citizenship, freeing the slaves and assuming that they were citizens. You set all the rights of a U.S citizen
- Right to vote, all men + had to be 21 years old
- IF you were a part of the succession and made an oath, you can’t vote or run for office unless Congress votes 2/3. You can’t claim anything like debt if you were a part of the Southern succession.
- Congress can interrupt things in different ways.
