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Lincolns assasination targets

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Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, William Seward

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president, first republican president, elected in 1860

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Lincolns fiancé

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Clara Harris

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Mary E. Surratt

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Ran the boardinghouse where the conspirators met. First woman to be executed. Was the first female to be hung

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Dr. Samuel Mudd

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Doctor who set Booth’s leg. Always claimed his innocence but was later charged because he had meetings with the conspirators before.

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George Atzerodt

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Sentenced to death because he was going to kill Andrew Johnson but got too drunk and told the bartender his whole plan

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George A. Atzerodt

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Was going to murder VP Andrew Johnson but never went through with it. Was hung

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John Wilkes Booth

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Killed president Lincoln. After a search of 12 days, he was found and shot to death

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Louis Powell/Payne

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Assaulted William H. Seward with the intent to murder. Also assaulted his friends. Was captured at Mary E. Surratts house and was hung.

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Michael o Laughlin

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Planned to kill Ulysses s grant. Was sent to prison and died of yellow fever

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David Herold

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Fled with Wilkes Booth and surrendered. Was put to death.

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Reconstruction

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Rebuilding the South 1865-1877

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Black codes

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Laws passed by South limiting African American rights— getting as close to slavery as possible

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13th amendment

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Abolish slavery (1865)

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14th amendment

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It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, if you’re US born. (1868)

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15th amendment

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African American MEN right to vote (1870)

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln’s speech declaring all slavery is abolished in the SOUTH, even though the war wasn’t won

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The actual black “codes” or laws

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  • all AA adults must sign labor contract for year, if not signed, a fine and if fine isnt payed the AA can be auctioned to an employer (basically slave trade!)
  • neighbors can report “bad parenting” even as a lie and they can take the child an labor them
  • only blacks can marry blacks
  • could only testify against other African Americans, no whites
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The rights given from the black codes

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Legalized black on black marriages
Freedom of slavery
Make money (a mere amt.)
Right to own property (very rare)
Could testify in court against other AA

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Ku Klux Klan

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  • coincides with black codes, act like slave patrol
  • targeted blacks with lots of land, or with children that were smarter than white children
  • would destroy them and their property
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Tenure of Office act

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A person cannot be removed from office without senate approval

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Radical republicans (House)

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Advocated to freedmen rights, brings up charges, led by Thadeus Stevens

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Radical Republicans (Senate)

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Advocates to rights of freedmen, acts as jury, led by Charles Sumner

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Supreme Court justice RR

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Salmon P. Chase

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Andrew Johnson backstory

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Father died at 3, taught to read at 20 by his wife, grew up as a tailor, self-conscious, hated white plantation owners

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Reasons Andrew Johnson was impeached

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  • Attempted to remove Edwin Stanton without senate approval
  • took everything personally, remembered all slander towards him
  • declared war on congress
  • 8 minute drunk inauguration speech
  • racist, though AA rights should be different in each state
  • vetoed bills trying to help freedmen
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Southern Military Districts

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5 union military districts divided into Southern States, not Tennessee

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Why was Tennessee not under military union watch?

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Tennessee was also remitted into the Union before the district plan was issued

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Separate car act

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Blacks and whites had different train cars, $25 fine and 20 days in jail if you don’t follow the rules.

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Homer Plessy

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Was a man who was 1/8 African American, and decided to go into the white train car. He was arrested but went to the Supreme Court and used the 14th amendment. He said it was unfair that black citizens got a worse train car because the constitution states all CITIZENS be treated equally and so the separate car act was unconstitutional. In the end, the Supreme Court said that it WAS constitutional, and “separate but equal.”

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Poll tax

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Was passed in the south to pay a tax before you vote

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Literacy

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Laws passed in the south requiring African Americans to read a passage and interpret it from the constitution before they could vote

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Grandfather

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Passed to help poor/illiterate WHITES. If your grandfather voted before 1867 (a time when blacks couldn’t vote) no requirements needed to be met to vote.

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Hiram Revels

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First African American in congress, took Jefferson Davis’ seat! Was from Mississippi.

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Blanche K Bruce

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Senator from Mississippi (served full term)

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Joseph Hayne Rainey

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First African American in the house that was from South Carolina

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Enforcement Act

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Laws making it illegal to prevent a person from voting by bribery, force, or scare tactics

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Ku Klux Klan Act

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Allowed the government to act against terrorist organizations (military can intervene)

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Ku Klux Klan

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Was formed in 1865 (year slavery was abolished) in Pulaski Tennessee, formed by 6 Confederate Soldiers

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Former Confederate General who was the first grand wizard of the KKK. Never took prisoners, just killed everybody instead

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End Compromise of Election of 1867

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Rutherford B. Hayes became president, as long as he removed Union troops from South

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Tenant-Farming

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Farmer who paid rent for the land they worked

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Sharecropping

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Rented land from landowners, but unlike tenant farmers, paid back in crops

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Ten Percent Plan

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Proposed by Lincoln in 1863
- 10% of voters who voted in the 1860 election must swear loyalty to the union
- must abolish slavery
- former confederate (except high ranking) may vote and hold office

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Wade-Davis Bill

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Proposed by Senator Benjamin Wade / congressman Henry Davis in 1864
- majority of whiny men who voted in 1860 must swear Union loyalty
- must abolish slavery
- former confederates cannot vote or hold office

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Johnson plan

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Proposed by President Andrew Johnson
- majority of white men who voted in 1860 must swear loyalty
- must ratify 13th amendment
- former confederate officials can vote, high rankers get hold pardoned
- new state government & governors reelected

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Reconstruction Act (rejected)

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Proposed by Radical Republicans in 1867
- must disband state governments
- must write new constitutions
- must ratify 14th amendment
- African Americans must be allowed to vote
- military reconstruction must be ratified (southern districts be watched by military union)

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South Carolina black codes (besides the national ones)

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  • can take child apprentices if a person doesn’t have a job for 20 days
  • no assemblies, owning shops, and no reading without white approval (institutional racism)
  • white approval + $100 to be a mechanic or shopkeeper
  • no guns
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Compormise of 1877

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Solved the presidential election of 1877, by giving the unistributed votes to Rutherford b Hayes as long as he removed the troops from the south

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Enforcement acts

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No forcing not to vote with scare tactics

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The amnesty act of 1872

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The forgiveness of the south, intended to end reconstructions overall

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