Section 1, 2, 3, 4 Test 11/8/22 Flashcards
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Whats a Freedmen
a freed slav
What was the reconstruction
Reconstruction of the South
What is the ten percent plan
A reconstruction program proposed by President Lincoln that would allow Confed states to establish new state governments after 10% of their male population took loyalty oaths
What is Amnesty
a pardon
What is the Wade-Davis Bill
A reconstruction program proposed by the radical republicans that would allow Confed states to establish new states governments after 50% of their male population took loyalty oaths
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau
An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees. They helped freed blacks and displaced southerners
What were 2 problems after the war
unemployment and economy
What did the 13th Amendment do
abolished slavery
What were the Black Codes
Laws that tried to limit the freedom of Africans
What did congress do to combat the Black Codes
They passed the Civil Rights act
What were the 2 main goals of the Radical Republicans
Break the power of wealthy planer and ensure freedmen the right to vote
Who lead the Radical Republicans in the House
Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania
Who lead the Radical Republicans in the Senate
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate
What was Radical Reconstruction
When the radical republicans gained control of the reconstruction of the south
What was the Reconstruction Acts
Acts that set forth the requirements for the South to be admitted into the Union
What did the 15th amendment do
Gave everyone equal voting rights
What is someone who wants the south to change as little as possible
A Conservative
What is a name for northerners who came to the south after the war
a carpetbagger
What was a name given to southerners who supported the republicans
Scalawag
What was the Ku Klux Klan
a secret society that wanted to stop Africans from taking office and terrorized them
What is a sharecropper
people who worked land owned by others in exchange for part of the crops at harvest time
Who killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Who followed Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
What is the 14th amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Equal Protection and Citizenship Rights)
