Chapters 12-13: Reconstruction & West Flashcards
emancipation proclamation
freed slaved men
freedman’s bureau
1865, helped freed men and southern refugees with basic need such as school, food, and clothing
3 plans for reconstruction
Lincolns, Wade-Davis, and Johnson
Lincoln’s plan:
forgiven if pledged to the Union, state can rejoin if 10% of voters took an oath of loyalty
Wade-Davis plan:
congress, majority of white male citizens had to take an oath of loyalty, and decreased possibility of revolt
Johnson plan:
wealthy southerners have to apply for pardons, no set percentage of loyalty, refusal to pay off Confederate debts, a-polish slavery, and repeal recession
pocket vote
put away for 10 days until it died
bill things
president signs and becomes law; if vetoed, process starts over again
Lincoln’s assassination:
John Wilkes Booth; 1865; Ford’s Theatre; plan to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and SOS William Steward
Andrew Johnson
democrat, southerner, not popular in congress
black codes
designed to keep freed men in slave-like conditions; law enforcement supported and enforced such laws; only written down
Radical Republicans
reshape southern society fast for freed men to bring change quickly
Civil Rights Act
protect freed men from black codes
13th amendment
freed slaves
14th amendment
granted all citizenship to freed men and all males
15th amendment
prohibited state government from denying the right to vote based on race
Johnson’s impeachment
Edward Staton fired, and violated 10 year act, 1 vote impeached but kept him in office
scalawags
Southerners who supported the Union
carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved down south for the rebirth
Southern Homestead Act
law set aside 45 million airs of government owned land for free farms to freed men and farmers
sharecropping
employer provides everything
tenet farming
renting pieces of land for farming
croplein system
supplies sold on credit, legal claims on debtors property
enforcement act
protect the right of voting for freed men, setting heavy penalties for anyone who interjected
compromise of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden competed for president; Hayes won; independent replaced with republican; promised south to construct new railroads, control floods on the Mississippi, and removed federal troops
Plains Indians
different tribes; buffalo used for everything; white men wanted to kill off buffalo to move them