Reconstruction Flashcards
- 10% each of the state population, raised a hand.
- Emancipation Proclamation (abolished slavery).
- required the south to help (though some souths were Union).
- The had handpicked governs.
Rights
-Abolished slave force but no specific help.
Lincoln’s plan ( 10% plan)
- Get implement quicky as possible.
- 50%: Loyalty Oath
- Leave own governments.
- radical 13 Amendment.
- Pay war, Rejecting secessions.
Rights - 13 Amendment (abolished slavery).
- No voting
- Black codes (rights of AA economically & socially.
- No role: AA required Gov.
Johnson’s Plan (didn’t really enforce)
- SAT: NO (no membranes of congression unless the principle 👍🏼.
- needed all south: 14 & 15 Amendment.
Rights - Extend rights to former slaves.
- Goal: Goot feet and is read economically.
- South paid $.
- New Society equality.
- Free Labory, move away.
- All South: 14 (equity) & 15 (vote but women) Amendments (do process).
Congressional Plan (Radical-Republic Plan)
the period 1865–77 following the Civil War, during which the states of the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government and social legislation, including the granting of new rights to African-Americans, was introduced.
Reconstruction
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
13 Amendment
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ( 100% equal)
14 Amendment
Everyone: vote but women
15 Amendment
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Freedmen’s Bureau
(Slaves) a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.
Sharecropper/sharecropping
The best known of them was passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans’ freedom and to compel them to work for low wages.
Black Codes
The Republican Party during the American Civil War. They were distinguished by their fierce advocacy for the abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of black citizens.
Radical Republicans
After CW: Although disbanded twice, it re-emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and continues at a local level. Members disguise themselves in white robes and hoods and often use a burning cross as a symbol of their organization.
Ku Klux Klan
A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims.
Radical
A person who holds bad views.
Moderate
Existing before a particular war.
Antebellum