Dates and acts 1865 - 1890 Flashcards
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation and who put it in place?
1862 and Abraham Lincoln
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Any southern states conquered by the Union had to abolish slavery
How many slaves were in the South by 1860?
4 million
What did the 13th amendment do?
It abolished slavery everywhere in America after the civil war
when was the civil war?
1865
When was the Freedmen’s bureau and what was it for?
1866
it was enforced (but vetoed by Johnson) to provide aid to freed slaves
What was the 15th amendment?
said that the right to votes couldn’t be denied according to race, colour or previous servitude
When was the civil rights act?
1875
What did the civil rights act do?
intended to guarantee equal treatment of issues such as jury duty and public transport
What was the case called where the courts ruled black and white people should be separate but equal?
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
when was the 13th amendment?
1865
When was the 15th amendment?
1870
when was the enforcement act?
1870-71
what was the enforcement act?
it became a federal criminal offence to restrict the civil and political rights of others (right to trial suspended)
when and why did reconstruction end?
1877
Hayes removed the military from the south and ended federal protection over freed slaves
When was the southern compromise?
1877
What was the southern compromise?
Where Hayes pulls the military away from the south and stops the conflict from the civil war
What was the 1867 Belknap scandal?
Where Grants secretary of war had to resign for taking backhanders and granting rights to sell supplies to Indians
What was the whiskey ring?
Grants private secretary helped defraud the government of million in the taxing of whiskey
What was the 1869 gold scandal?
2 friends of the president cornered the gold market by spreading rumours which allowed then to buy all the gold and then sell it at a huge profit
what was the 1873 salary grab?
The Congress voted to massively increase salaries across the federal government
What was the cause of the 1873 Colfax massacre?
150 black people were killed to try and prevent black people from voting (as they voted Republican)
when was the economic depression and what was it caused by?
1873
the fall out of the stock market
what was the 1872 amnesty act?
allowed some ex-confederate to return to politics after being disqualified by previous laws such as the 14th amendment
When was Hayes president?
1877-81
When was Garfield president?
1881
When was Arthur president?
1881-84
When was Cleveland president?
1884-88
When was the Pendleton service act?
1883
when was the Chinese exclusion act?
1882
when was the Granger movement and what was it?
1867
It united farmers against the hostilities of railroad companies
when was the dawes act
1887
what did the dawes act do
split up reservations and gave areas to native families to farm on
when was the sherman silver purchase act
1890
what was the sherman silver purchase act
gov buy 4.5 million ounces of silver each month at market price to use as coinage
