AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY ARE WE HAVING ANOTHER TEST SO SOON?!?!?!?!?! Flashcards
Is this deck finished?
yes. read the textbook too, it’s short this time you can do it.
Do you have progressive study on?
do that.
Which president came from poor beginnings in North Carolina?
Andrew Johnson
Which president had strong feelings against the planter aristocracy and championed the cause for poor whites
Andrew Johnson
What was one of the only reasons Tennessee didn’t secede from the union
Andrew Johnson was in the congress of Tennessee at the time and oh lord did he have things to say that didn’t involve seceding the union
When did Johnson apply to be war governor of state
when union reconquered Tennessee
Who did Lincoln’s union party try to get support from by making Johnson Lincoln’s second term vp?
War Democrats
When did Lincoln’s union party try to get support from war democrats?
1864
Who was Lincoln’s union party?
repooblicans
when did black codes arise?
after the civil war (so like mid to late-ish 1860s)
What was another name for the black codes?
jim crow laws
What did black codes strictly enforce?
labor contracts
Why did black codes utilize labor contracts of all things?
could keep their labor force and also make their labor force trapped in cycle for long long whiles
What were blacks forbidden from doing in the jim crow laws?
serving jury, owning land, renting accomodations, and not working. (literally there was one that was like if you’re not working you’re leaving)
What form of farming primarily involved former slaves but sometimes roped in poor whites?
sharecropping
Can you summarize sharecropping and all of its effects?
its real simple, big bad, could make zero to negative money, like slavery but even better because now you don’t even need to feed/house your slaves
What three amendments were passed to grant certain civil rights to newly freed slaves
13th, 14th, 15th
who passed the three civil war amendments
radical republicans (opposite of lincoln)
When was the 13th amendment ratified (i know it seems like we don’t need to know this but I feel like this is gonna be one of those things he’s gonna put as a historical ID)
1865
What did the 13th amendment do
abolish slavery except as punishment for crime
When was the 14th amendment ratified
1868
what did the 14th amendment do
granted citizenship to former slaves
when was the 15th amendment ratified
1870
what did the 15th amendment do
grant franchise (fancy word for suffrage, idk thats what he said in class) to former slaves
How did the former confederacy now the south feel about the new civil war amendments?
really fricking miffed
What did the former confederacy do about the new civil war amendments?
find workarounds, jim crow laws, literacy tests, etc.
What was significant about the people who came to the congressional delegation
lots of the delegates representing southern states were just former confederate leaders, lots of radical republicans upsetty spaghetti about newly readmitted confederate states
When was the congressional delegation
December 1865
Who was that one guy mr roberts mentioned in class who was the confederate vp which ended up being elected senate from Georgia
Alexander Stephens
Why were so many people fine with former confederate leaders being in positions of power in the us
they were the “most educated/intellectual/qualified” to represent their constituents in congress
What were the scalawags
southern term used to describe southerners who allied with former slaves or freedmen’s bureau
what were carpetbaggers
southern term, described northerners who rushed to south with belongings in a “carpet bag” to try and take advantage of the south’s vulnerability after the war. often there to help and not take advantage. also often beaten tf up, often for sometimes nonexistent reasons
What was sometimes referred to as the Invisible Empire of the South
kkk/ku klux klan
When was the kkk created?
1866
Where was the kkk created?
Tennessee (because all bad things start in Tennessee)
Who was supposedly one of the founders of the kkk
nathan bedford forrest
what was the purpose of the kkk
protectors of the south, basically they attacked anyone that was a different ethnicity, religion, or just different period because they were nationalists and racists and all the ists
what unconstitutional act made it so that the president had to get senate approval before replacing cabinet members
tenure of office act
when was the tenure of office act
1867
Why did the tenure of office act happen?
prez johnson was gonna remove secretary of war since they disagreed, radical republicans liked the secretary of war and also hated johnson so this was a win win
Who was the secretary of war under Johnson before his removal
Edwin Stanton
when was edwin stanton secretary of war dismissed
1868
What happens when johnson dismissed edwin stanton as secretary of war
house of reps immediately brings impeachment charges for going against new tenure of office act
When was the trial in senate about johnson’s impeachment concluded
may 16 1868
what was the end result of the trial concerning johnson’s impeachment
1 vote short of booting him out of office
Who was the one guy that decided meh let’s not boot the president on dumb charges
Edmund Ross, kansas republican
why would johnsons removal have been significant
ben wade, radical republican, president of senate, would have become president
(just cause mr roberts included this in notes) how many died in civil war
600,000
how much was the cost of the civil war to the economy
fifteen billion dollars
what happened to the south’s agricultural capacity after the civil war
greatly reduced
What was Lincoln’s plan for the south being readmitted into the Union called
ten percent plan
what constituted the ten percent plan
once ten percent of the state’s population took loyalty oaths, the state could be readmitted to the Union
When was the ten percent plan proposed?
idk my notes say before the war’s conclusion so early 1860s probs
What was the bill proposed by radical republicans concerning the reentry of the south into the union called?
wade davis bill
What did the wade davis bill propose?
fifty percent of population in state had to take loyalty oaths, and a whole bunch of strict requirements that mr roberts didn’t specify because he’s a prick
What was the wade davis bill’s purpose?
to punish the south
who proposed the wade davis bill?
Benjamin wade of ohio and harry davis of maryland, radical republicans in congress
Who was that one guy that mr roberts mentioned in class to know that was from Pennsylvania and was a radical republican and pushed strongly for the 13th amendment (yes I’m aware of how weird it is to put this here but this is where it’s at in my notes so mr roberts was just super off)
Thaddeus Stevens (god what a gigachad name) (you think people called him thaddy instead of daddy during hanky panky?)
what group was created to help slaves that were recently freed and unprepared and under resourced to survive (or poor whites)
freedmen’s bureau
when did congress create the freedmen’s bureau
1865
What was the purpose of the freedmen’s bureau
provide basic civil services for people
Who was the former union general that was the leader of the freedmen’s bureau?
Oliver O. Howard (O.O. Howard, same guy who during battle faced a certain direction cause like man how could a military force eeeeever get through wilderness?)
Why was the freedmen’s bureau never able to fulfill all its goals for freed slaves?
Andrew Johnson allowed it to collapse
When did the freedmen’s bureau run out of resources to continue its services
1872
What was that one phrase proposed by union administration about what should be given to freed slaves?
40 acres and a mule
When did Sherman issue special field order number 15 from his temporary hq in savannah, georgia
1865
What did Sherman’s special field order number 15 specify?
a thirty mile wide strip from south carolina to florida would be reserved for former slaves to farm since lots of people ran away from sherman’s march
Why did sherman’s special field order number 15 fail?
land owners came back to their land being settled by black communities and uh it didn’t go super well.
Why did radical republicans support sherman’s special field order number 15
because they hated the south and wanted to confiscate that land
This question has popped up a lot on both true/false and multiple choice so what did newly freed slaves often do soon after gaining liberty
travel or seek loved ones
What was the focus of black community life after emancipation
the black church
Did andrew johnson’s views line up with Lincoln’s or not
NOPE, super far away from lincoln in terms of political position
how successful was the ku klux klan at intimidating blacks and preventing them from voting
not at all
what did congressional republicans demand the southern states do to be readmitted into the union
ratify the fourteenth amendment
