American Nations: Chapter 16- Study Guide Flashcards
Republican group who wanted greater assurances of white loyalty and greater guarantees of black rights after the Civil War
radical reconstructionists
document that outlined Lincoln’s plan for readmitting Southern states to the Union & reconstructing the South after the war.
Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction
proposed by radical Republicans; wanted stricter provisions for Reconstruction & punishment for former Confederates.
Wade-Davis Bill
the group that was created to help freed slaves transition into life as freedmen.
Freedmen’s Bureau
discriminatory Southern laws used during Reconstruction to restrict black freedoms.
black codes
amendment that defines citizenship and guarantees citizens due process & equal protection.
14th amendment
amendment that abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
amendment that established universal male suffrage.
15th Amendment
Lincoln’s VP; Southern Democrat, anti-wealth and anti-aristocracy President who sabotaged Republican Reconstruction efforts.
Andrew Johnson
laws that prevented intermarriage between Black and White citizens.
anti-miscegenation laws
act that established military rule in the South and stated that the military would supervise voter registration in the South.
Military Reconstruction Act
Southern term for Northern Republicans who moved to the South after the war.
carpetbaggers
a system in which white planters divided up large plantations into small farms which freedmen rented.
sharecropping
former Civil War general who became a president whose administration was known for corruption.
U.S. Grant
white Southerners who owned small, independent farms.
yeomen
Confederate paramilitary organization that supported Democrats & terrorized blacks and Republicans in the South.
Ku Klux Klan
system in which merchants sold goods to sharecroppers in exchange for a claim on their future crop.
crop lien
act that made it a felony to interfere with voting rights; almost destroyed the KKK.
Ku Klux Klan Act
act that outlawed racial discrimination in transportation, public accommodations, & juries.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
the name Southern Democrats called themselves as they took over when Republican governments in the South collapsed.
Redeemers
Republican President who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote and therefore the election.
Rutherford B. Hayes
transitioning from slavery to free labor
most difficult problem for the South after the Civil War.
term that refers to the right to vote.
suffrage
generally expanded black rights in the US & banned discrimination in state laws; passed by Congress with the first override of a presidential veto in US history.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
3 groups that made up the Republican Party in the South
Freedmen, Northern whites, yeoman farmers.
agreement in which Democrats promised not to interfere with Hayes’s inauguration if Republicans in Congress promised to keep the army out of the South.
Compromise of 1877
Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were the personal property of their masters and therefore had no standing in court.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
first military engagement of the Civil War
Fort Sumter.
bloodiest single day of the Civil War
Antietam.
most significant turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg.
location of the Confederate surrender at the end of the Civil War
Appomattox Court House.
3 major focus areas of Republican Reconstruction
education, civil rights, economic improvement.
3 major goals of freedmen
finding lost family members, independent worship, economic independence (land ownership).
