After the Civil War Flashcards
13th amendment (year and what it was for)
Abolished slavery in the United States - 1865.
14th amendment (year and what it was for)
1868, US born and naturalized citizens have federal rights and protections. “equal protection under the laws,”. Granting citizenship.
15th amendment (year and what it was for)
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Granted African American men the right to vote in 1870.
Political Revolution
A rapid, fundamental transformation of a society’s class, state, ethnic or religious structures.
Radical Reconstruction
Congress’s attempt to put more restrictions on the South so freedmen were not denied their rights, killed in riots, nor made to suffer.
Freedmen’s Bureau
To help people who were once slaves learn how to read and write. Get jobs.
Civil Rights Act (year and what it was for)
14th amendments (Giving citizens of every race and color equal rights to make contracts, testify in court, purchase, hold and dispose of property, and enjoy full and equal benefit of all laws. It provided punishment for anyone denying this right to any citizen). 1866.
Counter Revolution
Lost Cause Myth (what did that mean?)
A term that is coined by gone with the wind (they are the inheritors of the original ideas) Slave people lived decent lives like “family”, Continuing a tradition. An American pseudo historical and historical negationism myth that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.
Black Codes
Black Codes restricted black people’s right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces. Southern states put into place to try to differentiate where black people now have other laws to follow.
Stone mountain
Confederate monument
Labor contracts
Had to be carried at all times or they would go to jail. Would result in “sharecropping” where white-land owners would give African Americans land to work on, but want a share of their earnings. The contract was supposed to be fair but it definitely wasn’t.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
White supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
Ex- confederates (year and what they did)
1865.
Violent and illegal militias to enforce Black codes and intimidate Republicans.
Face off with federal troops and state militias.
Red shirts
A group in South Carolina that would parade in every single county to try to intimidate black voters.
White League
A white supremacy in Louisiana.
End of Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877 (what happened?)
Under the compromise, Democrats controlling the House of Representatives allowed the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect, securing political legitimacy for Hayes’s legal authority as President.
Presidential election between Samuel Tilden (D) and Rutherford B. Hayes (Republicans)
Tilden wins the popular vote, fraud in the South.
Hayes becomes president, and federal troops leave the South.
“This is the best it is going to get” taking the troops out caused Chaos.
Known as “The great betrayal”.
Plessy V. Ferguson (what is the year and what did it establish?)
- “separate but equal” - Keep them apart but as long as the things are equal (which was not upheld).
Mass violence and lynchings
They were often times celebrated and no was no accountability held.
Lynching (what was it exactly?)
Spiked in the South in the 1880s. Punishing someone without due process (hangings, beatings, burned). It would usually be public killings and these people would be abducted or taken from their jail cells.
The texas rangers would Lynch Mexicans.
Ida B. Wells (who was she? what was she known for?)
Led a prominent anti-lynching campaign. 1892 a lynching in Memphis took place and a white grocery store wanted to own a black grocery store and caught the store in fire because they wanted the store.
She was thrown off a train because she refused to give up her seat in the train.
She was a teacher and became a journalist.
She talked about how the men that were lynched in Memphis was not because they committed a crime (that they were falsely accused of) they were just good business men (grocery store).
Interracial relationships were not ALLOWED she argued that the relationships were consensual and not rape.
People begin to comply because they don’t want to be killed or “cause trouble”
Things started to go back to normal (slave times).
Jesse Woodson James (what was he known for?)
He was a folk hero of the west. An American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Known as the robin hood of the west, they hated the railroads. Vigilantly against federal railroads organizations.
Incorporation
Reconstruction / post-Civil War
Economic
Modernizing everything adding railroads, roads, towns, and banks.
Political
Allowing the territories to become states. Reservations and control over immigrants/ natives / emigrants.
