Civil War Reconstruction Flashcards
Presides in impeachment trial
Salmon P Chase
Ex-slaves
Freedmen
Rebuilding and reuniting
Reconstruction
Made freedmen citizens
Fourteenth
Counter proposal to 10% plan
Wade Davis Bill
Stevens solution
40 acres and a mule
Deciding vote of impeachment trial
Edmund Ross
Southerners willing to cooperate
Scalawags
“I maintain that my race aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow citizens”
Hiram Revels
Northerners who take advantage of the south after war
Carpetbaggers
Convicting Andrew Johnson of…
Treason high crimes and misdemeanors
Gave freedmen right to vote
Fifteenth amendment
Lincolns assassin
John Wilkes booth
Case established principal of segregation
Plessy vs. Fergusson
Tied ex-slaves to the soil
Share cropping
Compromise of 1877 cost him his presidency
Tilden