period 5 Flashcards
Freedmen’s Bureau
Provided more financial support for the Freedmen’s bureau and extended its authority to defend the rights of black people
many any person born in us a citizen
johnson veto, stunned republicans
drove the radical republicans
Radical Republicans
want a strict policy toward the south, argued that this would keep the people who led the secession from regaining power and weakening the control of radical republicans
post-war reconstruction
Civil Rights Bill 1866
Johnson vetoed and with a 2/3 vote in congress it passed
made any person born in us a citizen
johnson veto, stunned republicans
drove the radical republicans
mandated that “all persons born in the United States,” with the exception of American Indians, were “hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.”
14th Amendment
Citizenship
equal protection
bill of rights in all states
13th amendment
freed slaves
15th amendment
granted black men the right to vote
Black Codes
loophole for black people, republicans became further disillusioned with Johnson as Southern state legislatures adopted black codes
restricted loitering, using firearms, hunting, fishing, vote, serve jurys
slaves of the state
reconstruction act of
1867
radical changes
outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states
each state had to write a new constitution and ratify the 14th amendment, each state had to let black people vote
republicans gained control of congress
1868- creation of KKK
carpet baggers
opponents of Reconstruction
describes northerners who moved to south after war, supposedly in an effort to get rich or acquire political power
massacre at colfax louisiana
1873
about 62-153 black militia men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former confederate soldiers and members of the KKK
bargain of 1877
Through Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, the rest of the troops from the south would be removed, legislation would be passed to assist in the industrialization of the south
kill reconstruction
states passed laws to discriminate against black people