Chapter 13- Reconstruction & The New South

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Reconstruction

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Rebuilding the former Confederate states and reuniting the nation.

Question 1

Amnesty

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Gave a full pardon to all southerners- except all high ranking Confederate leaders & a few others- who would swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America & accept federal laws ending slavery.

Question 2

John Wilkes Booth

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A confederate sympathizer that shot & killed the President of the United States of America along with his wife.

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The thirteenth amendment

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The amendment that congress passed in January of 1865 which abolished slavery all together.

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Black codes

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Codes that very closely resembled pre- civil war slave codes.

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Fredrick Douglass

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He supported the right to vote pretty open.
He also demanded the “ immediate, unconditional, and universal ‘ enfranchisement [the right to vote] of the black man, in every state in the union.’”

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Freedmen’s Bureau

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Provided the south with food, clothing, & other services.

Especially the freed slaves.

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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This was the very first civil rights law and the nation’s history.
This act declared that everyone born in the United States boarders was a citizen with full civil rights but didn’t not guarantee you voting rights.
Legislatures design the act to overturn discriminatory laws and the Supreme Court’s 1857 dread Scott ruling that African-Americans were not citizens

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14th amendment

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This amendment passed in June 1866 required states to extend full citizenship to African-Americans and all people born or naturalized in the United States.
This amendment denied states the right to deprive anyone of life liberty or property without due process of law.
Further it promised all citizens equal protection of the laws.

Question 9

Reconstruction act’s

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These act’s were passed in 1867.
Please ask divided the former confederacy– with the exception of already- reconstructed Tennessee– 5 military districts.
Union Army troops were stationed in each district to enforce order.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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He was the radical Republicans presidential nominee of the election of 1868.
He lacked political experience though.

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Carpetbaggers

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The term used used for work northern Republicans.

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Scalawags

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Former confederates keep even greater scorn on Southern whites who had back to union cars and now supported reconstruction.

Live view them as seller renegades, betrayers of their race and country.

Question 13

Ku Klux Klan

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This group was founded in 1866 by 6 former Confederates.

Organization grew quickly, attracting planters lawyers, and other professionals, as well as poor farmers and laborers.

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Enforcement act’s

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Yeah Liz three laws empowered the federal government to combat terrorism with military force and to prosecute guilty individuals.

The Democrats called them the force ask and claimed that they threatened individual freedom.

Question 15

The panic of 1873

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A particularly severe economics depression.
Republican leaders came under pressure as workers threatened strikes and farmers demanded relief.
The partnership b/n antilabor,northern business people- who formed the core of the Republican Party- & the freed slaves had never been stable.

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Civil rights act of 1875

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The republicans final effort to enforce reconstruction.
This bill prohibited businesses that served the public- such as hotels & transportation facilities- from discriminating against African Americans.
However white republicans began to see reconstruction as a huge hassle.

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Redeemers

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Supporters of a white- controlled government.

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Samuel J. Tilden

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The republican presidential nominee for the election of 1876 from New York.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Was the democratic presidential nominee for the election of 1876.
He was from Ohio.

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The compromise of 1877

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This basically said that the democrats’ acceptance of Hayes as president, the republicans agreed to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the south.

Question 21

Sharecropping

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The system that the south came up with to solve there labor issues.

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Crop-lien system

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Any outstanding debts were added to their bills the following year.

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Poll taxes

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Fixed taxes imposed on every voter.

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Literacy tests

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Tests that barred those who could not read from voting.

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Segregation

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The separation of the races.

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Jim Crow laws

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So-named after a minstrel song that contained the refrain “Jump-jump-jump Jim Crow.”

Question 27

Plessy versus Ferguson

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A lawsuit brought in 1896 after African American Homer Plessey was denied a seat in first-class railway car.
The court ruled that "separate but legal"