Period 6 (1865-1898) Flash Cards (Chapters 15 - 17) Mini MCQ 1/6/23
Free Labor Vision
Chapter 15
Emancipated African-Americans would enjoy the same opportunities for advancement as northern workers, would labor more productively than they had as slaves.
Freedman’s Bureau
Chapter 15
An agency established by Congress to attempt to establish a working free labor system
Supposed to establish schools, provide aid to the poor and aged, settle disputes between whites and blacks and among the freed people, and secure for former slaves and white Unionist equal treatment before the courts
Sharecropping
Chapter 15
Allowed each African-American family to rent a part of a plantation, with the crops divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.
Crop Lien
Chapter 15
A system that forced farmers to take up the growing cotton and pledge a part of the crop as collateral (property the creditor can seize if a debt is not paid)
Black Codes
Chapter 15
Apart of Johnson’s Reconstruction policy were laws passed by the new southern governments that attempted to regulate the lives of the former slaves.
PROS: Granted blacks certain rights, such as legalized marriage, ownership of property, and limited access to the courts
CONS: denied them the rights to testify against whites, to serve on juries or in state militias, or to vote.
Radical Republicans
Chapter 15
Fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War –> Protect the rights of all Americans
Most Prominent (Leaders?) : Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens
^ Both had been outspoken foes of slavery and defenders of black rights
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Chapter 15
It defined all persons born in the United States as citizens and spelled out rights they were to enjoy without regard to race. – Connected to the 14th Amendment
14th Amendment
Chapter 15
Principle citizenship for all persons born in the United States and the rights for all Americans
Reconstruction Act
Chapter 15
Temporarily divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments with black men given the right to vote
Tenure of Office Act
Chapter 15
Barring the president from removing certain officeholders, including cabinet members with the consent of the Senate. Johnson considered this an unconstitutional restriction on his authority
Impeachment
Chapter 15
Presented charges against Johnson to the Senate, which had to decide whether to remove him from office.
15th Amendment
Chapter 15
Prohibited the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race.
Cartpetbaggers
Chapter 15
People who had packed all their belongings in a suitcase and left their homes in order to reap the spoils of office in the South
Scalawags
Chapter 15
White Republicans who had been born in the South, considered them as traitors to their race and region
Ku Klux Klan
Chapter 15
Served as a military arm of the Democratic Party in the South
A terrorist organizations who killed white Republicans (sometimes African-Americans)
Enforcement Acts
Chapter 15
Outlawed terrorist societies and allowed the president to use the army against them.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Chapter 15
Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation
Railroads
Chapter 16
Developed into a system that allowed for faster transportation of goods and people
Trusts
Chapter 16
Legal devices whereby the affairs of serveral rival companies were managed by a single director