Reconstruction Flashcards
Johnson reconstruction plan
Offered amnesty upon an oath to the union EXCPET confederate civilian and military’s officers and those w/ property over 20,000
Fords theater
Theater where Lincoln was killed
15th amendment
Right to vote
Poll tax
Had to pay to vote
Wade Davis bill
Required 50% of the # of 1860 voters to take an iron clad oath of allegiance
Lincoln’s plan
10% of white voters from the south had to give an oath of loyalty to the union. Planned to ban slavery
Black codes
Allowed slavery to be reinstitute in the south
13th amendment
Ended slavery
14th amendment
Provide a constitutional guarantee of the rights and security of freed ppl
Carpetbaggers
a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
Radical reconstruction plan
South states would be punished for denying the right to vote to black citizens kl
Civil rights act
Prohibited discrimination in jury selection
Freeman’s burea
Burea of refuges ,freedman, abandoned lands
Reconstruction acts
Military reconstruction act
Command of the army act
Military reconstruction act
Restart reconstruction in the 10 south states that refused 2 ratify the 14th amendment