Reconstruction And Native America Flashcards
1868 Johnson does what that gets him impeached
Fires the secretary of war without senate approval
Does the senate find Johnson guilty during his impeachment trial
No
1868 who is elected president
U.S. Grant
What year is grant re-elected
1872
What does the Force act do?
Passed by U.S. Grant, force act forces voting under federal control, troops sent to south to get control of votes on a local level
U.S. Grant dies of throat cancer in
1885
Who encourages US Grant to write a biography to finance his family after his impending death
Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain: author of Huck Fin
Who were the candidates of the election of 1876
Samuel Tilden- Democrat
Rutherford Hayes- Republican
What were the 3 states that challenged the votes in the election of 1876
South Carolina
Louisiana
Florida
Who originally wins the election of 1876 and who wins after vote recount
Tilden originally wins
Rutherford Hayes takes office
What was the Compromise of 1877
Hayes tells the south that he will end reconstruction( 12 years after the end of the war)
This is why: Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina flip and “ recount votes”
When does reconstruction end and by the hand of who
Spring of 1877
Rutherford Hayes
Three voting restrictions that take political power from blacks
1) poll tax
2) literacy test
3) grandfather clause ( grandfather couldn’t vote: neither can you)
Which Supreme Court case begins SEPARATE BUT EQUAL
Plessy vs. Fergusson
Plessy vs. Ferguson what happined
Homer Plessy buys ticket for train, he buys it for a certain and when asked to move he refuses, and is thrown off the train
Loses Supreme Court case- begins separate but equal
Who started the Tuskegee institute
Booker T Washington
What was Booker Washington’s view about black education
Education in the arts is a waste of time, blacks need to be educated to get jobs and function within society
What was Washintons most famous speech
the Atlanta Compromise
What did Booker t Washington say in his Atlanta compromise
Blacks execpt that they do not have equality and it will take time to get there.
Many view this as excepting separate but equal
W.E.B. Dubois
Born free man of color 1868, in the north. Harvard educated, becomes enemy of Booker T. ( views Booker as a sell out)
W.E.B. Dubois most famous book
Souls of Black folk
1909 NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people
WEB Dubois believes in the talented 10%…
10% of colored people will become leaders and break down the walls of prejudice and the 90% will fallow
1867 tenure of office act
Says if senate has to approve appointed officials being hired, it must also have to approve them being fired
Post war “ war” is between —
Johnson and the radical republicans
