reconstruction/ the new south Flashcards
10 percent plan (made by who? ignored what? was it accepted by congress?)
lincoln
ignored secession (southern states can be readmitted to the union of 10% of voters swear oath to the union)
REJECTED BY CONGRESS
wade davis bill (got rid of what?)
total abolishment of slavery
pocket veto
president vetoes congress
pews reconstruction (who becomes new president)
andrew johnson
congressional reconstruction (what amendments passed?)
13th, 14th, and 15th
radical republicans
wanted to abolish slavery
civil rights act of 1866 (defined what?)
defined citizenship
protected all citizens under the law
reconstruction act of 1867 (divided who into where?)
divided south into military districts
tenure of office act (forbid president to do what)
remove civil officers without senates consent
freedmen’s bureau (who/what got involved?)
government helped freedom of slaves
johnson impeachment (why? outcome?)
did many crimes
house of reps 1 vote short to impeach
jim crow laws
liked slavery
racial segregation
black codes
legal restrictions of blacks
sharecropping & tenant farming
-farmer lets black use land to grow & sell crop for exchange of profit
-lets black use mule and they go in debt for life which is slavery
40 acres and mule (who said it? land for who?)
william t sherman
land for freed families