chapter 22 Flashcards
- Freedmen’s Bureau
(1865-1854, created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medicinal care, education, and legal support)
- 10% Plan
( President Abraham Lincoln’s proposal for Reconstruction after the Civil War, which stated that a Confederate state could be readmitted to the Union once 10% of its 1860 voting population took an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the emancipation of slaves, signifying a lenient approach to rebuilding the South)
- Wade-Davis Bill
(passed by congressional republicans in response to Lincolns 10 percent plan, required that 50 percent of a states voters pledge allegiance to the union and set stronger safe guards for emancipation. Showed divisions between congress and president, and between (
- Black Codes
(1865-1866, laws passed throughout the south to restrict rights of emancipated black ppl, particularly with respect to negotiating labor contracts. Increased north cristim of pres. Andrew Johnsons’ lenient reconstruction policies)
Pacific Railroad Act
(1862, helped fund construction of the union pacific transcontinental railroad with sue of land grants and gov bonds)
- Civil Rights Bill
(1866, passed over Andrew Johnson’s veto, aimed to counteract the black codes by conferring citizenship on black ppl and making it a crime to deprive black ppl of their rights to sue, testify in court or hold property)
14th Amendment
(ratified 1868, constitutional amendment that extended civil rights to freedmen and prohibited states from taking away such rights without due process)
- Reconstruction Act
(1867, passed by republican congress, divided south into 5 military districts, disenfranchised former confederates and required southern states ratify the 14th amendment and write state constitutions)
- 15th Amendment
(ratified 1870, prohibited states from denying citizens the franchise on account of race. It disappointed feminists who wanted the amendment to include guarantees for women’s suffrage)
- Women’s Loyal League
(1863-1865, formed to help bring an end to the civil war and encourage congress to pass an amendment prohibiting slavery)
Scalawags
(bad term for pro-union southern whom southern democrats accused of plundering the resources of the south in collusion with republican governments after the civil war)
- Carpetbagger
(pejorative used by southern whites to describe northern businessmen and politicians who came to the south after civil war to work on reconstruction)
Ku Klux Klan
(an extremist right wing secret society founding in id 19th century, revived during 1920’s, anti-foreign, black, Jewish, pacifist, communionst, internationalist, evolutionist, bootlegger. Pro Anglo Saxon, protestant. )
- Force Acts
( 1870-1871, passed by congress following a wave of KKK violence, the acts banned clan membership, prohibited the use of intimidation to prevent black people from voting, and gave the us military the authority to enforce the acts)
Tenure of Office Act )
(1867, required the president to seek approval from the senate before removing appointees
- Seward’s Folly
(1867, popular term for secretary of state, William Seward’s, purchase of Alaska from Russia. The derisive term reflected anti-expansionist sentiments of most Americans immediately after civil war)
