reconstruction Flashcards
radical republicans
extreme abolitionists who tried to give blacks same rights as citizens
radical reconstruction
union troops were stationed in the south and were running things; starts in 1869
carpet baggers
northerners who went to the south and got involved in southern business/politics; southerners hated them (confederate soldiers were not allowed to run for office so many freedman and northerners ran instead)
scalawags
white southerners who joined republicans (the northerners); former confederate soldiers thought of scalawags as traitors
1877
radical reconstruction ends
impeachment
johnson is impeached but not convicted; he was not removed from office (he made deals with some republicans so he wouldn’t be removed from office)
civil rights act of 1867
an act to protect blacks; vetoed by johnson but congress overrides his veto (2/3ds of congress)
election of 1868
ulysses s. grant won the election (union general); replaced johnson
hiram revels
(a person) first african-american senator; takes jefferson davis’s seat (jefferson davis was the president of the confederacy)
“bayonet rule”
(violence) what hayes calls administration of south during reconstruction
ulysses s. grant’s presidency (two terms)
tide turns and reconstruction softens; less radical - former confederates may now run for office
1872
former confederate soldiers start getting elected to state government
ku klux klan (kkk)
hate group; kill, hang and torture blacks - they wear hoods to cover their faces
eletion of 1876
leads to the end of reconstruction; hayes vs. tilden - president is picked by compromise; hayes wins (southerners agree to support hayes if reconstruction ends - union troops are removed)
freedman’s bureau
an office that distributed food, clothing, and shelter to ex slaves