Reconstruction Flashcards
Order of presidents
Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes,
Why did African Americans stay in the South?
Because they worked hard for in their families, communities, they started their own businesses, they didn’t think life would be better anywhere else.
Why did some African Americans move?
They wanted equality, better treatment, and a better life
What were new requirements to vote?
Poll tax and a literacy test- anyone who wanted to vote had to pass a reading test and pay a fee, because of this many AA didn’t vote
Separate but equal was established during which court case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Most black votes joined Lincoln’s political party which was?
Republican party
Who did Hayes run against in the election of 1876?
Samuel Tilden
The election of 1876 was disputed over the?
electoral vote
Resolved
to find a solution for
Compromise of 1877
the democrats allowed hayes to become president in return for the removal of federal troops in the South
Grandfather clause
stated that taxes and tests did not apply to any man whose father or grandfather could vote on 1867. Since no blacks could vote on that date, this only applied to whites.
Why was the KKK formed?
formed secret societies to drive AA out of political life.
13th 14th 15th amendment
13- abolished slavery
14- granted citizenship
15- right to vote
Reconstruction means
rebuilding of South
Black Codes
kept freedmen at bottom of the social order in the South
Freedmens Bureau
provided food and medical care to both blacks and whites in the south, helped freedmen arrange wages and good working conditions.
What president was impeached in the mid to late 1800
andrew johnson
Sharecropping
only a little better than slavery, when someone worked on someone else’s land for money but ends up with almost no money because of expenses.
Johnson’s reconstruction plan
states can rejoin union if…
1. new state constitution
2. repealed acts of secession
3. canceled war debts
4. elected a new government
5. ratified the 13th amendment
Enforcement acts
made it illegal to prevent someone from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics
Who made up the largest group of new southern voters?
Northerners who moved to South after the war- carpetbaggers
Radical Republicans
believed that the South wouldn’t be completely rebuilt until Freedmen were granted the full rights of citizenship
What are Jim Crow Laws and why were they passed
- laws enforcing segregation of blacks and whites in the South after civil war
- to draw a color line between whites and blacks
Use the magnifying glass tool to examine this image of a family record created after the Civil War. This family record was created for use by
freed slaves
