Reconstruction - US History Flashcards
What was significant about 1870?
African Americans got the right to vote
Scalawag
Southern white person who supported the Republican party after the Civil War
Carpetbagger
Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
15th Amendment
African American suffrage(right to vote)
Segregation
Separation of the races
What are some challenges African Americans in the South faced after the War?
Limited protection for racial violence, illiteracy, poor medical care, and housing
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Provided food, shelter, medical care, and clothing the white refugees and freed African Americans
Klu Klux Klan
White terrorist group that was created to scare African Americans into not voting
Black codes
Laws made to limit the rights of African Americans; vagrancy, labor contracts, and land restrictions
14th Amendment
States that all people born in the US are citizens, including former enslaved people
Impeach
To charge a president with wrongdoing in office
What is a synonym for pardon?
Amnesty
Compromise of 1877
B.Hayes(Republican) elected President in turn remaining federal troops are withdrawn from the south
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery
Booker T.
Felt African Americans should earn respect by establishing themselves as good hardworking citizens
Du Bois
Felt African Americans should demand their equality by voting and using their voices
Exodusters
Group of slaves that moved west to escape racial violence
Holmer Plessy
The original Rosa Parks
Nadir
Lowest point
Lincoln’s Plan
10% of voters had to take an oath, Emancipation had to be accepted, all former confederates pardoned
Johnson’s Plan
Former confederates with $20,000 worth of property to get presidential pardon, ratification of 13th Amendment
Radical Republican Plan
50% of voters had to take an oath, south divided into military districts, state legislators had to adopt new constitutions, 14th amendment ratified
Radical Republican Plan
50% of voters had to take an oath, south divided into military districts, state legislators had to adopt new constitutions, 14th amendment ratified
What were 3 major successes of reconstruction?
Tax supported school system, infusion of federal money to make railroads and ports, economy expanded
Why would some argue reconstruction was a failure?
Historians say that the changes made in reconstruction might’ve happened anyway, plus, African Americans were still being terrorized
