Chapter 17- Reconstruction Flashcards
Conservatives
Republicans who cooperated with Lincoln’s reconstruction plan
Freedmen
3 1/2 million former slaves
Radicles
Opposed lincoln’s plan
Wade- Davis Bill
Gave congress control of reconstruction
Johnson
Succeeded lincoln as president
“10 percent clause”
10% of voters could set up a new government
Veto
President could refuse the bill
Freedmen’s Bureau
Provided food and clothes for freed slaves
Amendment 13
Permanently abolished slavery
Amendment 14
Made freed slaves citizens
Amendment 15
Slaves have the right to vote
Reconstruction Act
Divided confederacy into 5 military districts
Stanton
Secretary of war who president Johnson dismissed
Grant
Elected president in 1868
Johnson
First president to be impeached
Hayes
Ended reconstruction
Conditions of compromise of 1877
- Federal troops were removed from southern states
- Hayes appointed 1 southerner to his cabinet
- Federal money was given for economic development
Black codes
Limits on civil rights of freedmen
Civil rights bill
Guaranteed civil rights for freedmen
Tenure of office act
Prevented president from dismissing civil officers
Sumner
Radicle who wanted to punish south
Carpetbaggers
Northern politicians who went south after the war
Scalawags
Cooperated with carpetbaggers and freedman
Amnesty act
Restored political rights to those who had joined the confederacy