test 2/20 Flashcards
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ku klux klan
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- secret organization of white extremists
- formed by southerners
- purpose- harass and harm blacks to obstruct their participation in gov.
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freedoms bureau
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- established March 3rd, 1865
* issued rations, clothing and medicine to freed blacks
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sharecroppers
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- farmer who rents or does not own land
- loaned necessary supplies to work land
- receives a portion of the profit after paying fees to land owner
- LEGAL SLAVERY
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who takes place of Abe Lincoln after war?
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Andrew Johnson
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brooks/Baxter war
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- both had organized militia units
- from April to May 15th: 200 people killed
- increased internal bickering, weakening Republican Party
- republican reconstruction on the decline
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radical reconstruction
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goal- punish the south
• all adult males could vote
• US army officers registered voters
• white males had to take the Iron Clad Oath (say you’ll never be a confederate again)
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3 goals of farmer slaves
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- own farming land
- good and better schools
- legal protection
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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- Supreme Court ruling in 1896: SEPARATE BUT EQUAL
* segregation of schools, transportation and housing
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agricultural wheel
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organization to try to get blacks to farm so they would have more numbers
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timber industry
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- # 1 industry during reconstruction
- employed 3/4 of non- farmers
- 6 men created an organization called “concatenated order of Hoo-Hoo”
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Jim Crow laws
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- laws destroyed to keep blacks out of politics
- put out a literacy test
- required a dollar poll tax
- blacks couldn’t vote in primary election
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what happened after 1874?
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• Democratic Party controlled AR • state debt really high - general assembly voted to cut debt - people who bought bonds lost money - prison inmates were leased out to work for businesses/ industry's
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redeemers
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name taken by Democrats Who came to power followingThe Brooks/Baxter war, ending reconstruction
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1874 constitution
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- written directly from the difficulties of radical reconstruction
- made it difficult to raise taxes
- reduction of governor’s power
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radicals in AR
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- republicans controlled state gov.
- Powell Clayton elected gov.
- blacks, Scali wags, and carpetbaggers held power
GOALS: - economic progress (building railroads)
- public education (1st college AEU)
