Exam 1 Flashcards
Abraham Lincoln
Signed emancipation proclamation freeing the slaves in rebellion states
Andrew Johnson
rags to riches life, orphaned, wife taught him how to read, served as a US house of representative, US Senator, Military Governor of Tennessee, US VP, US President, US Senator
Opposite views as Lincoln, but remained loyal to the Union
First US President to be impeached. Not convicted of 11 charges.
Freedman’s Bureau
supervise the employment, relief and welfare of ex-slaves, set up hospitals, give rations to displaced blacks and whites, set up schools, settle freedmen on abandoned land. It provided a military trial for anyone who violated rights of freedmen.
Ulysses S. Grant
winning General in the Civil War. His two terms as President were riddled with corruption. Multiple scandals ruined his reputation
Compromise of 1877
Followed the election of 1876 after voting fraud. Committee declared Hayes when Tilden truly won. Republicans and Democrats compromised (old radicals gone, young radicals had different agendas, no public support, no $, unconstitutional)
Fourteenth Amendment
designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of the freedmen. citizenship=“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
(Southern states had to ratify 14th Amendment to get back in the Union).
Civil Rights Act 1866
Attempted to nullify Black Codes by
providing that blacks had the same civil rights as whites and by providing that federal courts would enforce its terms.
Civil Rights Act 1875
Guaranteed full and equal enjoyment, to persons in U.S. of bathrooms, hotels, water fountains, theaters, etc. Access couldn’t be
denied a person because of race, color, religion or political persuasion.
(Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court in 1883).
Thirteenth Amendment
Ended slavery
Atlanta Compromise
Speech made by Booker T. Washington about African American community focusing more on jobs and training rather than civil liberties to gain respect from the white community
Fifteenth Amendment
The right of U.S. citizens to vote can’t be denied on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
Jim Crow Laws
enforced racial segregation in the US from the 1880s until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Ex. of laws:
- nurses (no white female nurse had to take care of black men)
- burial (couldn’t bury black people next to white people)
- Intermarriage (whites could only marry whites)
- promotion of equality (anyone protesting segregation could be fined or jailed)
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who came south to work In Reconstruction Governments
Scalawags
Southern whites who joined the Republican Party and participated in Reconstruction politics
10% plan
10 percent of the 1860 electorate must swear loyalty to the US
The state must write a new constitution which recognized the “permanent freedom of slaves.”
The state must set up a public school system
Black codes
limited the Freedmens’ economic, civil and political rights.
Tenure of Office Act 1867
Required Senate’s approval for the removal of officers appointed by the President with Senatorial consent. Purpose was to keep Johnson from firing his opponents in the Executive Branch.
Edward Stanton
Northern democrat, served as secretary of war for Lincoln and Johnson. Opposed slavery, sided with Republicans for harsh treatment of ex-confederate states. Johnson tried to fire Stanton in order to test the constitutionality of the Tenure of Office Act.
(the violation of this act became the most serious accusation against Johnson in his impeachment trial)
Henry W. Grady
editor of “The Atlanta Constitution,” was the best known promoter of the New South Ideal
Ghost Dance
In the 1880s a new religion promising the destruction of the White Man and the return of the traditional Indian way of life swept across the plains.