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to describe white Southerners who supported the Reconstruction policies of the federal government and the rights of freed African Americans after the Civil War.
Scalawags
- This did not
free any slaves immediately
because it applied only to
areas behind Confederate
lines, outside Union control.
-had much symbolic importance
-discourages Britain from supporting the Confederacy.
-confederates reacted with outrage.
Emancipation Proclamation
-a secret organization whose goal was to restore white supremacy.
-It’s method was to prevent African Americans from excericising their politcal rights.
Ku Klux Klan
- the discrimnatrory laws passed throughout the post Civil War South which restricted African Americans.
black codes
-marked the ends of efforts to enforce civil rights protections for african americans in the south
-had long lasting implications for race relations and southern politics
Compromise of 1877
-By year’s end 27 states, including 8 from the South, had ratified what
-law in the united states that abolished slavery
-made it illegal for anyone to own or force anyone to work
-ensured that all people no matter their race should be free
Thirteenth Amendment
-delievered by Lincoln in 1863
-honored soilders who fought in civil war
-Lincoln was making sure everyone in America could be free and have equal rights.
-He reminded everyone that freedom and equality should be the foundation of the nation.
Gettysburg Address
-helped bring an end to Reconstruction
-aimed to rebuild southern states and ensure rights
for free African Americans
Rutherford B Hayes
prohibited slavery in the US
13th Amend
granted citizenship to all african americans and equal protection under law
14th amend
extended voting rights to all african american men in the US
15th amend
a period of rebiilding relations between north and south, lasting from 1865 - 1877
reconstruction
freed southern blacks
freedman
northern businessmen and policemen and politicians who migrated to the south to work on reconstruction projects or invest southern infrastructure
carpetbaggers
created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, etc
freedmans bereu
white southerners who supported reconstruction
scawlings
-lenient reconstruction plan
-believed that southern states should be quickly allowed into the union without harsh punishment
-plan allowed southern states to rejoin the union if they abolished slavery (through 13th amend)
-failed to protect the rights of freed slaves and limited the process of ending reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
pushed for laws that gave African Americans equal rights and protection
-wanted a more aggressive and equal approach to rebuilding nation after civil war
radical republicans
refers to the formal process by which a government official, such as the president, is charged with misconduct or illegal actions in office.
impeach
the belief that Northerners arrived with so few belongings that everything could fit into, a small piece of luggage made of carpeting.
carpetbaggers
landowners would allow farmers to work on their land in exchange for a portion of the crops they produced, rather than paying them wages in cash.
tenant farmers
gave a share of the crops they produced (usually about half) to the landowner as payment for using the land.
sharecroppers
to describe white Southerners who supported the Reconstruction policies of the federal government and the rights of freed African Americans after the Civil War.
Scalawags
