Reconstruction Flashcards
What was Andrew johnson impeached for?
For violating the tenure of office act
What is the tenure of office act?
Limits the power to remove office-holders
What was the outcome of Johnson’s impeachment?
Saved by one vote to not be impeached but had no power in office
What is reconstruction?
Uniting the country
Reconstruction amendments and what were they
13th: abolish slavery
14th: citizenship
15th: African American men right to vote
What were the black codes?
Laws passed by the South to limit African American’s rights
Who were the targets of the assassination and who was assigned to them?
Abraham Lincoln: john Wilkes booth
Andrew Johnson: George Atzerodt
William Seward: Lewis Powell
What law did Homer Plessy break? And what were the consequences if you did it?
Separate car act, $25 fine and 20 days in jail
Was Homer Plessy found guilty?
Yes
What is the Poll tax?
Laws passed in South to pay a tax before you could vote?
Literacy act?
Laws passed in the south requiring black citizens to read and interpret a passage from the constitution before they could vote
What is the grandfather clause?
Passed to help the poor/illiterate whites if your grandfather voted before 1867 they didn’t have to pay tax to vote
First African American in congress from Mississippi who took Jefferson Davis’s Seat?
Hiram Revels
Senator from Mississippi?
Blanch K. Bruce
First African American in the house from SC
Joseph Rainey
What was the Ku Klux Klan Act?
Allowed gov. To acts against terrorist organizations
What is 40 acres and a mule?
Land confiscated from the Confederates that never happened
What is Tenant Farming?
Farmers who payed rent for the land they worked
What is sharecropping?
Rented land from landowners paid back in crops
When/where/who did KKK originate?
1865
Pulaski Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest and 6 other former confederate soldiers
What is the end compromise?
The 1876 election that ended the reconstruction period.
What was unusual about the election of 1876?
Neither Hayes or tilden won the popularity vote so congress gave Hayes 20 points in order to win.
