APUSH Ch. 15 Flashcards
Ten Percent Plan p480 POL
a) plan that decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the population had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S.
b) would have helped reconstruction
c) would have released tensions between north and south
Wade-Davis Bill p480 POL
a) required states majority of states to say that they didnt support the confederacy to be admitted to the union
b) caused tension because of radical republicans
c) allowed states back into union
Black Codes p481 PEO
a) These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans’ freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
b) showed the south was still trying to control blacks
c) showed the continued hatred for blacks
Freedmen’s Bureau p481 PEO
a) a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freed slaves during the Reconstruction
b) helped aid the blacks
c) fought people trying to injustice the black people
Civil Rights Act of 1866 p481 POL
a) the first United States federal law to define US citizenship and affirmed that all citizens were equally protected by the law
b) gave blacks rights
c) now there was a more well defined definition of citizen
Fourteenth Amendment p481 POL
a) addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slave
b) gave all slaves rights and protections
c) helped clear up citizenship problems
Reconstruction Act of 1867 p482 POL
a) were extended to include the registration of voters who had taken the oath of allegiance, and the supervision of the election of delegates to state constitutional conventions
b) helped continue reconstruction
c) gave some rights back to people in the south
Fifteenth Amendment p485 POL
a) prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
b) gave voting rights to everyone
c) now everyone has voting rights
American Woman Suffrage Association p486 PEO
a) They believed that the Fifteenth Amendment would be in danger of failing to pass in Congress if it included the vote for women.
b) helped push for women’s rights
c) now women have the same rights as men
National Woman Suffrage Association p486 PEO
a) opposed the Fifteenth Amendment unless it included the vote for women.
b) also helped women’s rights
c) allowed women to have same rights
Minor v Happersett p486 POL
a) a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote.
b) stopped women’s chances for rights at the time
c) continued struggle for women
sharecropping p491 WXT
a) a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land
b) allowed blacks to maintain a living
c) blacks continued to be poor
Union League p493 PEO
a) a group of men’s clubs established during the American Civil War to promote loyalty to the Union
b) people helped preserve the union
c) showed that there were some people who supported the war
scalawags p493 PEO
a) southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War
b) helped continue reconstruction
c) people in the south went along with Reconstruction ideas
carpetbaggers p493 PEO
a) a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, especially during the Reconstruction era , in order to profit from the instability that existed at this time.
b) people like these were greatly resented in south
c) rebuilding of south was set back
