Chapter 15-19 vocab Flashcards
Took office and revealed his reconstruction plan in 1865
Andrew Johnson
What did Andrew Johnsons reconstruction plan entail?
grant amnesty to Southerns who would take an oath of allegiance, governor in each state and charge him with inviting qualified voters to elect delegates to constitutional convention, revoke its ordinance of secession, abolish slavery and ratify the 13th amendment and repudiate Confederate and state war debts
Washington outlined a controversial philosophy of race relations; blacks should forgo agitation for political rights and concentrate on self-improvement and preparation for equality
Atlanta Compromise
Laws that authorized local officials to apprehend unemployed blacks, fine them for vagrancy, hire them out to private employers to satisfy the fines
black codes
critics labeled southern white Republicans by this derogatory term
carpetbagger and scalawag
purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
Compromise of 1877
a credit system widely used in the South after the Civil War in which farmers promised a portion of their future crops in exchange for supplies from local merchants
crop-lien system
prohibited states from discriminating against voters on the basis of race and gave the national government the authority to prosecute crimes by individuals under federal law
enforcement acts
What amendment gives everyone born in the United States, and everyone naturalized, was automatically a citizen and entitled to all the “privileges and immunities” guaranteed by the Constitution, including equal protection of the laws
14th
what amendment granted black men the right to vote
15th
This helped at Black men get feed, clothe, educate, and provide medical care for ex-slaves
Freedmen’s Bureau
President Johnson got impeached. What does impeach mean?
the process of charging a public official with misconduct, with the potential for punishment including loss of office
laws restricting the franchise and segregating schools were only part of a network of state and local statutes
Jim Crow laws
Members of this group were powerful, conservative, and oligarchy
redeemers
farming system in which large landowners rent their fields to farmers, and families in return for a share of the crop’s production
sharecropping
This act permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee if they occupied the land they purchased for five years and improved it
Homestead act
This act provided for the gradual elimination of most tribal ownership of land and the allotment of tracts to individual owners
Dawes Act
what year did the battle of little big horn happen?
1876
the owner of standard oil company of Ohio in 1870
John D. Rockefeller’s
The process of buying and preparing food became a critical part of…
consumerism
the process whereby an empire or nation pursues military, political, or economic advantage by extending its extending its rule over external territories and people
imperialism
