Reconstruction Final Flashcards
2 day parade in DC celebrating the Union’s victory
The Grand Review
Amendment that abolished slavery
13th amendment
Program by Congress to assist former slaves and poor whites in the South providing education and legal support
Freedmans Bureau
Union general that was leader of the Freedmans Bureau
Howard
law that put South under the Union control to ensure black men the right to vote and ensure enforcement of 14th amendment
Reconstruction Act
law requiring President to issue military orders through Army general rather than commanders to ensure Congress had control of reconstruction
Command of the Army Act
requires Senate to approve removal of cabinet members causing Johnson to be impeached when he opposed this
Tenure of Office Act
law prohibiting the army to act as law enforcement to stop military overreach in the south
Posse Comitatus Act
areas the Indians were displaced
reservations
Winter Campaigns against Indians
used indian ponies bc they lose weight in winter due to no grass in the plains making the Indians unable to fight
strategy to box Indians in to disarm them and not kill them
converging columns
last in class at West Point and explored the Black Hills finding gold causing Americans to rush there
Custer
Sioux leader
Crazy Horse
head of Sioux army and fought against US at Battle of Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Little Big Horn Battle
Custer got there too fast with converging columns and got crushed by Sioux causing media to be very upset
