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The Crisis of Reconstruction Flashcards

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Jacksonian Democrat; military governor of TN during civil war 1862 to 1864; anti-aristocracy, hates aristocracy/planter class in the south; white supremacist and cannot compromise; never gets along with congress; agrees with Lincoln the southern states never legally left the union; proclamations included: oath of allegiance receives pardon with all property restored except slaves, provisional governor of southern states oversaw oaths at state conventions; ratified 13th amendment; all debts/loans forgotten; if property exceeded $20,000 they could not participate in government

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Andrew Johnson

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granted right to marry, right to sue, right to hold land; rarely allowed black to testify against white; rights denied- no guns, no alcohol, no interracial marriage, beginning of segregation, curfew, limited gathering; could be arrested for not working with punishment of labor or fined

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Black Codes

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in charge of Democratic Party in New York City; awarded patronage based on kickbacks; reason for most notorious corruption; brought under by New York courthouse; welfare system to immigrants in exchange for democratic votes at elections; his corruption catches him and he is arrested under corruption charges; takes two times to convict him, is sentenced to 13 years but only served a few; want the money back and can’t make bail, flees to Cuba then Spain and is returned to US where he dies in jail

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Boss Tweed

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northern white who had come to live in the south

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Carpetbaggers

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when people lost citizenship rights; confederates went under this during congressional radical reconstruction

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Civil Disabilities

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1866; granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States “without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.”

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Civil Rights Act

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he leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War

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Charles Sumner

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caused Hayes to win the election 1876

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Compromise of 1877

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happened to confederate land; it was seized by force

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Confiscation

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name was used to set up dummy corporation; Union Pacific Railroad set up this front to make money through contracts; build first transcontinental railroad; give cheap stick to members of congress to get subsidies; New York Sun exposes this in 1872 to try to convince people not to elect US Grant; Union Pacific Railroad went bankrupt when people called for loans; Southerners took large hit on this

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Credit Mobilier

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served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War; Johnson tried to fire; violated tenure of office act

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Edwin Stanton

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Republican US Grant who has no political experience, but was a general; Democrat Horatio Seymour was governor of NY with militant platform, want southern votes, say reconstruction is usurp of power and want to end freedmen’s bureau; the klan is keeping people out of polls; grant wins 214 to 80

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Election of 1868

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opposed 15th amendment; helped head the Women’s Suffrage Movement

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Irish who are making trouble on Canadian border; angry Britain is occupying Ireland

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Fenian

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ratified by states in 1870; the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude; The Congress has power to enforce this

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Fifteenth Amendment

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are laws passed by congress to help break power of klan to help people vote and protect black voters; not very successful

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Force (Enforcement) Acts of 1870 & 1871

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1865 was officially called Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands; many former northern abolitionists risked their lives to help southern freedmen; Johnson tried to cut funds and get rid of it; south saw freedmen’s bureau as teaching freedmen to become lazy

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Freedmen’s Bureau Bill

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democrat runner in 1872 election; lost to US Grant

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Horace Greeley

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democratic candidate for 1868; was governor of NY with militant platform; wants southern votes; says reconstruction is usurp of power; wants to end freedmen’s bureau

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Horatio Seymore

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to charge a serving government official with serious misconduct while in office

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Impeachment

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were heavily invested in railroads where there was a big boom; they were going to build second transcontinental railroad called Northern Pacific Railroad; the bank crashed and many went bankrupt; caused Panic 1873

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Jay Cooke

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was white supremacist group started in Tennessee; they wanted democratic power returned and colored people to lose all rights; laws passed to try to crush klan, but not sucessful

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Klu Klux Klan

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were made just to run against US Grant

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Liberal Republicans

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under congressional reconstruction broke south into military districts watched under a general until they could be reconstructed

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Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

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groups got together and pulled their money to pay dues to organizations and if some died they’d help the widow, they’d pay doctor if you couldn’t work; kind of like insurance

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Mutual Aid Societies

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was the party Johnson organized to keep republicans from getting voted; huge failure

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National Union Party

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union general in charge of the freedmen’s bureau

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Oliver Howard

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economic problem; serious downturn in economy; started through problems with bank Jay Cooke and Company who were heavily invested in railroads where there was a big boom; they were going to build second transcontinental railroad called Northern Pacific Railroad; the bank crashed and many went bankrupt; 18000 businesses failed 1873 and 1877; long depression; crisis fully finished in 1879

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Panic of 1873

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to hold a person in partial slavery; black codes

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Peonage

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is when a bill brought to the president is not signed within 10 days of going out of session; he refuses to sign it and it expires and doesn’t become a law

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Pocket Veto

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runs senate because the Vice President is not allowed to

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President Pro Tempore

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Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner headed up this party

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Radical Republicans

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was the 19th President of the United States; he oversaw the end of Reconstruction; began the efforts that led to civil service reform

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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ran against Hayes in 1876; won popular vote but lost election

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Samuel Tilden

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-price of property in Caribbean; Grant tries to acquire island and tries to do it himself without consulting anyone but instead sends Babcock his personal secretary to annex __; Charles Sumner is very unhappy and the rest of the radical republicans refuse to support this

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Santo Domingo

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another name for Yeoman whites; seen as traitors; former Whigs

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Scalawag

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became major agricultural economy of south; contracted labor never developed; former plantation owner found poor families who were mostly African American to work the land for a year, and the owner provided necessities; at the end of the year they would split crop 2/3 owner 1/3 sharecropper; this system causes continuous debt

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Sharecropping

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woman’s rights activist; walked out of American Equal Rights Association when they supported the 15th amendment since it did not help women’s rights; this formed the American Woman Suffrage Association

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Susan B. Anthony

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was a path a southern state could take to be readmitted to union; the 10% minimum of state had to swear an oath of allegiance to the union to be readmitted; does not provide at all suffrage for free slaves and congress is not consulted; all but highest ranking southern officers of military or civil could call for pardon

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10% Plan

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is when you rented the land and grew what you wanted to; better than sharecropping; make more money so you can pack up and leave

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Tenant Farming

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1867; says if senate has to approve appointment being hired then they also have to approve them being fired

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Tenure in Office Act

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was radical republican who hated 10% plan; wanted to punish south and head up

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Thaddeus Stevens

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ratified December 1865; Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction; congress has power to enforce this

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Thirteenth Amendment

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a violation of the allegiance owed by somebody to his or her own country

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Treason

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1871; worked out by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish; the CSS Alabama captured and sunk many northern ships before having sunk; the north believes the British should pay expenses since they built and sold the ship; ultimate settlement of Alabama claims British gave 15.5 million and an apology

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Treaty of Washington

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republican runner in election of 1868; has no political experience, but was a general; wins 214 to 80

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U.S. Grant

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made by Benjamin wade and Henry Davis;50% of 1860 voters take an iron clad oath of allegiance swearing they had never voluntarily aid the rebellion; required state constitutional convention before the election of state officials; enacted specific safe guard of freedmens liberty

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Wade-Davis Bill

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major scandal that involves the stealing if tax revenue on alcohol which is one of the major sources if revenue; conspiracy among citizens and officials; starts in St. Louis but quickly spreads; people involve primarily republican politicians; Benjamin Bristow the Secretary of Treasurer gets suspicious and sets up set up; a raid is conducted on may 10th and many are arrested; General Henderson is set as an attorney and US Grant tries to get the charges lowered, he won’t and is fired; 3million is recovered; one charged is Orville Babcock but doesn’t serve jail time due to pardon

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Whiskey Ring

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below plantation owners, fought to keep slave laws intact; used to be Whigs; voted for neutral party; want peace and order and reconciliation; want greater diversity in economy but want limited right and powers of freedpeople and only those educated should get to vote; mirrored agenda of northern moderates; scalawags

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Yeoman whites

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said you couldn’t do anything to stop voting, if you didn’t give people the vote you could lose seats in congress; you can’t pay off confederate debts

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