Chap 15 Flashcards
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who went south to explot free blacks
Black codes
Denied blacks the rights of citizenship
15th amendment
1870 garantee the black vote
Force acts
Laws to protect black voters in the south.
Voting is a federal jurisdiction
Imprisonment to those who interfere
14th amendment
1866 equal protection of the law to cotizens
Freedmen’s bureau
Federal agency to aid slaves and destituted whites. (After civil war)
Ku klux clan
1866
Confederate soldiers who used violence and intimidation to avoid black influence in politics
Radical republicans
Thaddeus Stevens insisted on black suffrage and federal protection of civil rights
Scalawags
White southern republicans that helped with the reconstruction government set up
Ten perecent plan
Any state with 10% of those who vote in 1860 taken the loyalty oath they could have a state government.
13th amendment
1865 end of slavery
Wade-Davids bil
- More than 10% to readmit them