Reconstruction Era Chpt 15-18 Flashcards
Reconstruction
1863-1877
Reconstructing:
equal rights, north & south union, union itself, concession of the union to change, rebuild nation, reconstructing US
What does Lincoln try to do
Tries implementing Reconstruction during the war and thought if states started rejoining union it would be a domino effect
What is Lincoln going to want states to do to rejoin the union?
Wants to make it possible and easy for them to return, wants to maintain union and take loyalty vote to the union
Lincoln’s thoughts on Blacks
Doesn’t believe in black equal rights, not an abolitionist
- fights the war to keep the union not because of slavery
What happens after Lincoln’s assignation
Southern Democrat Andrew Jackson takes his place, creates problem
What does Jackson want
Wants to reconstruct as well
What does the north want as reconstruction
Voting rights, black equality, civil rights for freed people, 13th amendment implemented (later does end of 1865)
Andrew Jackson was
A white supremacist
What did the Black Code Laws do
Circumscribed their laws
Limits economic rights/political
Can’t carry firearms
White southerners response after 1867:
KKK promotes white supremacy, secret org.
They killed and burned buildings/property
Intimated not to vote
15th amendment
No state shall deny someone the right to vote
- southern whites use their power
14th amendment
Defined citizenship in us
If you’re born on US soil, you’re a citizen
- no state shall deny equal protection of law or due process (can’t hold someone without charging them)
TREATED EQUAL NO DISTINCTION
Reconstruction
Attempt to reconstruct the nation and union
What did northerners do to prevent blacks from going north
Put up bonds (pay money) to enter a state
-embraced abolishment of slavery but not equality
Plexus vs Ferguson
1896/ separate but equal
- upheld racial segregation restrictions in public facilities, as long as segregated facilities were equal in quality
How do freed people make a living?
Became sharecroppers - produce crop on rented land and get paid for how much produced
A method of control
-skill sets in agriculture, factors/merchants/planters
Factors, Merchants, sharecroppers
Factors, borrow money
Merchants, planters
Sharecroppers, borrow money and rent land
Crop lien system
To obtain needed supplies each year, had to promise their crops to local merchants who then sold them goods on credit. Any outstanding debts were added to their bills the following year
Who voted for republicans
Southern whites
Industrialization
Increased urbanization- need concentration of workers
What changed during industrialization
Saw woman and children working- no age limit to bring extra $$
- unionization, rise and legitimacy
- mechanization- rise of injuries- sleep deprivation from long hours
Attorney general
Richard oney
-breaks strikes and unions
AFL
American federation of labor
Saw native Americans as foreigners
Excluded them as citizens, couldn’t become citizens
JP Morgan
Banker,
Helps himself, economy evolving into a business economy, which provides capital for economical expansion- help shape it
Boss Tweed
Corruption within city government
- wants political loyalty in return to assistance (housing)
- maintains power through loyalty
Imperialism
Extending power over another inhabited territory
- accompanies exploitation
- emerges 1890s
- industrial capabilities to take over
- economic, commerce, trade justification, social just.
1890s
US expands to Hawaii
Civilized and uncivilized nations
West is superior
Spanish American War, 1898
Invades Cuba, was a Spanish colony
Cuba wants independence
-US interested in resources
US becomes interested in Philippines
Wants harbors, railroads
-replace Spanish with Americans
Sphere of influence
A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
- China was opposed upon
Open door policy
Best way to avoid conflict with China was to keep an open market for all
Panama Canal
- interlock system
- make treaty with panama, wants canal
- sees as independent nation
Progressivism - Era of Reform
Labor and social reform, economical
Muckgreggors
Journalists reporting everything and real exposure
Banking reforms
Federal reserve banking system
Extends loans to private banks
Banks loan money to private sectors
Clayton Antitrust Act
A
The Great War 1914
Huge expands of territory, mass devastation & casualties
-1st use of aerial warfare, submarine and torpedo ships
What caused war
Started with assignation of arch duke frans Ferdinand
-Land and Territory
How did a British ship get torpedoed
It was a passenger ship carrying military supplies, illegal, not expecting to get caught
Woodrow Wilson’s famous line
I kept us out of the war
Wants to side with democracy
14 points
League of Nations
-collective security- group of nations could protect each other (collective protection)
-Addresses issuers that lead to war
US never joins L.O.N
