Chpt 22 Flashcards
“10 Percent” Reconstruction Plan
Lincoln’s plan which said that a state could be readmitted to the Union when 10% of its voters in the presidential election fo 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and agreed to abide by emancipation
Wade-Davis Bill
Passed in response to the 10% plan, saying that 50% of the state’s voters had to pledge allegiance to the Union and it made better protection of emancipation.
Black Codes
Laws passed throughout the south that restricted the rights given to former slaves. It increased criticism of Andrew Johnson’s lose Reconstruction policies by Northerners.
Pacific Railroad Act
Used land grants and government bonds to fund the construction of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad. Favored the north like the Morrill Act and Homestead Act.
Civil Rights Bill
Passed despite Andrew Johnson’s veto; it looked to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and it made it a crime to deny blacks the right to sue, testify in court, or hold property.
Fourteenth Amendment
Extended civil rights given in the Civil Rights Bill to former slaves and stopped states from taking away these rights without due process.
Reconstruction Act
Divided the south into 5 military districts, got rid of former confederates, and said the Southern states had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and make state constitutions promising former slaves those rights before they could come back into the Union.
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibited states from denying a citizen the franchise because of race. Protection for suffrage provisions in the Reconstruction Act.
Ex parte Milligan
Case where Supreme Court ruled that military tribunals couldn’t be used to try civilians if a civil court was to open.
Redeemers
Southern Democratic politicians who wanted to take control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction so they could make their own decisions on things like how to work around restrictions made on the Black Codes.
Woman’s Loyal League
Formed to help end the Civil War and encourage Congress to pass an amendment that banned slavery. They campaigned against the Fourteenth amendment because for the first time it specifically said men when referring to the right to vote.
Union League
After blacks gained rights to suffrage in the fifteenth amendment it was created that helped to educate Southern blacks about civic life, they built schools and churches for black and they represented black grievances before government and employers.
Scalawags
Pro-Union southerners accused by former Confederates of plundering the resources of the South with Republican governments.
carpetbaggers
How former Confederates described Northern businessmen and politicians who came to the south after war to helped with reconstruction or invest in southern infrastructure.
Ku Klux Klan
An extremist, paramilitary, right-wing secret society that would terrorized former slaves and sympathetic whites throughout the south. The terror caused carpetbaggers to shun the polls.
