reconstruction Flashcards

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radical republicans

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extreme abolitionists who tried to give blacks same rights as citizens

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radical reconstruction

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union troops were stationed in the south and were running things; starts in 1869

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carpet baggers

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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)

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scalawags

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white southerners who joined republicans (the northerners); former confederate soldiers thought of scalawags as traitors

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5
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1877

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radical reconstruction ends

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impeachment

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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)

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civil rights act of 1867

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an act to protect blacks; vetoed by johnson but congress overrides his veto (2/3ds of congress)

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election of 1868

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ulysses s. grant won the election (union general); replaced johnson

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hiram revels

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(a person) first african-american senator; takes jefferson davis’s seat (jefferson davis was the president of the confederacy)

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“bayonet rule”

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(violence) what hayes calls administration of south during reconstruction

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ulysses s. grant’s presidency (two terms)

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tide turns and reconstruction softens; less radical - former confederates may now run for office

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1872

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former confederate soldiers start getting elected to state government

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ku klux klan (kkk)

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hate group; kill, hang and torture blacks - they wear hoods to cover their faces

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eletion of 1876

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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)

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freedman’s bureau

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an office that distributed food, clothing, and shelter to ex slaves

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andrew johnson

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southerner; succeeded lincoln as president; congress tried to get him impeached but he was not convicted - he vetoed the expansion of the freedman’s bureau

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ten percent plan

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1863; proposed by lincoln - 10% of voters in seceded states must swear loyalty to us under oath and they must abolish slavery

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wade-davis bill

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1864; proposed by congress - majority of confederates must swear loyalty to us; seceded states must abolish slavery andformer confederate officers can never again hold office

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johnson plan

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1865; proposed by johnson - majority of whites from former confederate states must swear loyalty to us; former confederate states must ratify 13th amendment, and former confederate officers may hold office

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reconstruction act

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1867; proposed by radical republicans - former confederate states must disband their governments and write new constitutions and they must ratify the 14th amendment and let blacks vote