Chapter 1 - Reconstruction Flashcards
What issues contributed to the conflict over Reconstruction?
Lack of constitutional guidance in secession
What is the 13th Amendment
It banned slavery
What problems did African Americans face with the vacancy laws
B
Laws that restricted African Americans’ rights
Black codes
What is the 14th amendment
Gave African Americans citizenship
As soon as _____ of state’s voters took the loyalty oath to the union, the state could set up a new government
10% Plan
What is the 15th Amendment
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote
Enforcement Acts
Laid out the process for readmitting southern into the Union
Reconstruction Acts
Why did Johnson veto the a Civil Rights Act of 1866
Johnson supported state rights
Understand that the Civil Rights Act of 1866…
Sought to abolish the Black codes by overruling state laws
What led to the passage of the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
14th amendment
The _____ was used to eliminate _____ from elective office
Ironclad Oath; Confederate officers
What is the importance of African American churches in Reconstruction
They provided a platform for organizing and group planning
A farmer tends to a portion of a planter’s land in return for a portion of the crop
Sharecroppers
A farmer paid rent to a landowner for the use of land
Tenant farming
Why did tenant farmer need to be better at managing money than sharecroppers
So they could continue to pay the landowner for use of his land
Segregation laws enacted after reconstruction in the south
Jim Crow Laws
An agreement by which Rutherford B. Hayes won the 1876 election and in exchange agreed to remove all remaining federal troops from the south
Compromise of 1877
A term for white southern Democrats who returned to political power after 1870 who wanted to redeem or reclaim the South from northern domination
Redeemer Strategy
A law that required a majority of prewar voters in Confederate states to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin
Wade-Davis Bill
Case in which the U.S. Supreme Court implemented the “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
When the Supreme Court chipped away African American freedoms
Slaughterhouse cases
What are the lasting effects of Reconstruction
The diversification of the southern economy
Which voting practices did the Supreme Court decision address
Grandfather clause
A sum of money you pay to vote
Poll Tax
What are the consequences of the Supreme Court decision of 1883
B
In what way did Booker T. Washington think the Tuskegee Institute could help the African American community
B
During reconstruction, republicans dominated the new state governments because of…
Effects of carpetbaggers and new women voters
A law to disqualify African American voters by only allowing men to vote whose fathers and grandfathers had voted before 1867
Grandfather clause
He advocated full citizenship, including the right to vote for African Americans
Thaddeus Stevens
