Midterm Review Flashcards
Who did the KKK terrorize?
They terrorize free black men, carpetbaggers, scallywags, and redemers.
What is the KKK?
Ku Klux Klan
What are the three phases of reconstruction?
Radical, presidential, and wartime
What is the Wade Davis Bill?
It was the republicans attempt to stop Lincoln 10 percent plan.
What is the Tenure of office act?
Banned the president from firing cabinet members.
What does impeachment mean?
Incitement
Johnson went on a wild train ride to speak against the radical view of reconstruction this was known as?
Swing around the circle.
Congress passed the Military Reconstruction Act that did what?
Divided the South into 5 military districts, split army missions, amd began radical reconstruction.
What was the 14th amendment?
Equal protection under the law for blacks.
What was the Black Codes?
It banned free blacks from certain activities such as jury duty, firearm possession, and certain occupations.
General Sherman Field Order #15 suggest that each?
Head of a freedman’s household gets 40 acres and a mule.
The Freedman’s Bureau was created as part of the Army to help black freedmen get what?
Land, jobs, education, and voting rights.
What are carpetbaggers?
Northern who enforced reconstruction.
Lincoln 10 percent rule stated that when 10% of southern states voting population took alliance to the United States and ended slavery, they could what?
Enter the Union
The philosophy of reconstruction was alway at odds between ________ and _______
President and congress
The redemers did what?
Fight against the reconstruction.
What was the Panic of 1873 that caused depression and put southerns democrats back into power in the southern states and the federal House of Representatives?
Stock market crash
Neighborhoods in Northern cites for example New York were Known as?
Ghettos
What did the Jim Crow Law do?
Restrict the rights for blacks
What did the Grandfather Clause do?
Restrict black men from voting.
What is a patronage?
Getting a job because you know someone
What was the Plessy vs Fergueson case about?
Separate but equal
What was the social gospel movement?
Beloved that the answers was with people who practice Christianity
Who were muckrakers?
They were investigative journalists who exposed public corruption and abuses in big businesses.
What was the three famous novels of the muckrakers?
Wizard of Oz, Octopus, and the Jungle.
What was the National Child Labor Committee?
Lobbied laws for restricting the use of child labor.
What was the National American Woman Suffrage Association doing?
It was a movement to get women the right to vote
Municipal reformers led the movement to reform?
Corrupt and inefficient city governments.
What was the 16th amendment?
Establish federal income tax
What was the 17th amendment?
Allowed for election of senators by the electoral vote.
What was the 18th amendment?
Prohibition of Alcohol.