final review Flashcards
10% plan
plan by Abraham Lincoln that if 10% of confederate voters swore alligeience to the states, they could be pardoned, own land, pick their own delegates and state government
Wade-Davis bill
thought the 10% plan was too nice. It required the majority of votes to swear allegience to the states, didn’t let freedmen vote, and didn’t let confederates hold government office. Vetoed by lincoln
13th amendment
ended slavery
radical republican
someone committed to ending slavery
14th amendment
passed by andrew jackson, everyone is equally protected by the law reguardless of if they were a slave or not
radical reconstruction
black people became a part of the government
reconstruction act
said states had to ratify the 13 and 14 amendments to be part of the US
15th amendment
US citizens can vote reguardless of race
scalawag
a white southerner who agreed with northerners
carpetbagger
a northerner who came to the south to help with reconstruction
new south
shift from agriculture to industrialization in the south during reconstruction
who mostly built the transcontinental railroad?
immigrants
how did the cattle kingdom end?
less space due to barbed wire, railroads, settlements. industrialization was beginning
for laramie treaty
gave native americans money, farming tools, animals, and goods and tried to make them farmers
little bighorn
native american forces led by crazy horse and sitting bull defeated american army troops
dawes act
broke up reservations into individual homes for native americans, trying to get them to assimilate
