Chapter 15 Vocab Flashcards
Originally designed by Abraham Lincoln as the civil war was drawing to a close; lenient on the south, requiring only 10% of the population in each state to swear loyalty to the U.S. before being admitted back to the Union and accept the 13th amendment
Ten Percent Plan
Proposed by the “Radical Republicans” who wanted to harshly punish the south for causing the civil war; requires a majority of its adult white male citizens to swear an oath of loyalty to the constitution before readmission. Southerners are also not allowed to hold office if they aided the confederacy
Wade-Davis Bill
The presidential act of blocking a congressional passed law not by direct veto but by refusing to sign it
Pocket veto
Vice President of Lincoln, wanted him to readmit former confederate states as soon as possible
Andrew Johnson
A set of laws designed by the south as a method to gain control of the slaves like before the civil war
Black codes
Created by Congress in 1865 as a response to the harsh southern treatment of newly freed slaves; providing jobs, economic aid and education to the former Slaves
Freedmen’s Bureau
Affirming citizenship to blacks, directed at destroying Black Codes
Civil Rights Act (1866)
A group of republicans who felt that before the south is resorted to the union, the social structure needed to be uprooted, the planters punished and the freedmen protected by federal power
Radical Republicans
Equal protection under the law: the amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities it citizens of the United States
14th amendment
A radical republican who wanted to bring about a hard, punishing reconstruction for the south and expand upon the rights of newly freed African Americans
Thaddeus Stevens
Proposed by the radical republicans who wanted to harshly punish the south. One part of the plan was for the south to be split up into five sections where each would be tightly controlled by northern soldiers and filled over by a military governor, must ratify 14th and 15th amendment before resubmission into the union
Reconstruction Act (1867)
To accuse a public official of misconduct, in office and warrant their removal
Impeachment
Stated that all male citizens regardless of race, color, or occupation had the right to vote
15th amendment
Device to restrict blacks from exercising their right to vote by requiring them to pay a fee or require some form of property qualification
Poll tax
Established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890; Women’s Rights March
National Women Suffrage Association
A system of cotton growing agriculture practiced in the south, where former slaves would exchange their labor for the use of land, Home, and tools used in agriculture
Sharecropping
System of work disciplined used on southern cotton plantations in the mid 19th century
Gang labor system
Crop lien system; banks own the land and farmers have to guarantee a claim of their crops to pay off their loans
Lien
An African American representative, served in Mississippi senate
Hiram Revels
African American representative; one of the first black senators
Blanche K. Bruce
A pro union organization based in the North and was assisted by northern blacks
Union League
A derogatory term for southerners who were working with the North
Scalawags
A northerner who went to the south immediately after the civil war, especially who tried to gain political advantages from the disorganized situation
Carpetbaggers
A scandal that formed when a group of Union Pacific rail road insiders formed the credit mibilier construction company and then hired themselves to build the railroads with inflated wages
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Southern democratic term for the end of the reconstruction
Redemption
Former confederate general and founder of the KKK
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Secretive domestic militant organizations in the US, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope
Ku Klux Klan
Passed in 1870/1871, aka KKK Acts; prohibited the states from distracting against voters on the basis of race
Enforcement Laws
Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the republican program in the south
Redeemers
A series of post-civil war surprise court cases containing the first judicial pronouncements on the 13th-15th amendments
Slaughterhouse casss
1876-William Cruikshank argues that his convictions was unconstitutional because his actions in the Colfax massacre weren’t under the authority of federal law; the Supreme Court overturned Cruikshank’s convictions saying that the federal government can only regulate the actions of states regarding civil matters; states regulate individuals
U.S. vs Cruikshank
Self-government in local matters by a city of county that is part of a national government
Home rule
Candidates were Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden; Hayes elected winner
Election of 1876
Liberal republican, civil war general, 19th president
Rutherford B. Hayes
