Civil War/Reconstruction 1860-1890 #6 Flashcards
(40 cards)
South’s advantages: Military
defensive war
move supplies shorter distances
experienced military leaders
North’s advantages: Military
x4 the population
immigrants
emancipation promises
Navy
North’s advantages: Economic
85% of factories
70% RR
65% farmlands
South’s hopes
outside help
cotton would bring in support from gaikoku
NEEDED money
Antietam
where the officer dropped the plan
when he dropped his cigarette
Union strategy
Anaconda plan
Navy block South ports
Divide South by controlling Miss. River
Raise and train 500,000 to get Richmond, VA
Failure of cotton diplomacy
get cotton from other sources
didn’t want to fight on the pro-slave side
Radical Republicans
immediate equal rights for Blacks
Jim Crow Laws
made Blacks 2nd class citizens
Required segregation
Plessy vs Ferguson
separate but equal
14th amendement
no person shall be denied “equal protection of the law”
separate but equal– unconstitutional
Prevent Black codes
responses to 14th amendemnt
reading tests
grandfather clauses
Dawes Act
abandoned reservation system
redistribute land
goal: assimilate into White culture. Breakkup tribes
sell best pieces of lands to outsiders
Homestead Act
160 acres to whoever decides to move out West for 5 years
not worth it.
conditions terrible
Poverty in the South causes
South’s late start @ industrialization
poorly educated work force
Cotton after the war
productivity UP
amount of cotton UP
Prices DOWN
Redeemers
Democratic politicians who came to power in the South during Reconstruction
support from:
Business community
White supremacy
Used racial fears to distract from White tenant farmers etc
Booker T Washington
Education. Colleges
Non-immediate equality
win-win for Blacks and Whites
Social/Economic equality
NOT political
Atlanta Speech
WEB Dubois
Immediate equality
Northern farming
single cash crops
what, corn
Southern farming
unable to afford expensive machinary
small farmers go out of business
National Grange Movement
social and educational for farmers
Interstate Commerce Act 1886
RR rates to be “reasonable and just”
helped RR than farmers
Farmer’s Alliance
potential for turning into national party
poor whites and blacks join
similar to Grange movement