Unit 1 Exam Ch. 16 Flashcards
name two types of reconstruction
lenient and radical
14th amendment (one of three reconstruction amendments)
Granted citizenship 1866
southern states (considered conquered territories). What was the military structure put in place by the republican congress post war?
Five military districts with armies.
What is the “Great Betrayal”? What was it’s official name?
Republicans agreed to remove federal troops in the south, no intervention about race, end of reconstruction for Hayes Pres. win. This left whites to control blacks (Compromise of 1877).
What are redeemers? What social structure did they put in place between whites and blacks brought on my the Compromise of 1877?
Replaced republicans in the south to redeem the region from “black republicanism”. Legal segregation (in all aspects of life) and Jim Crow laws.
what three states were still controlled by republicans?
LA, FL, SC
LA (second civil war/deaths and voting change)
2000 people murdered or injured/voting dropped to zero
civil war number of deaths
620,000
main catalyst for the civil war? why was this bad for the north?
The south wanted to bring slavery to the expanding west. The south would have more political power over the north.
Was Johnson impeached? Was he removed from office?
Yes. No (The senate did not convict).
When and where was the KKK formed
TN 1866
What “job” replaced slavery
sharecropping
tactics/players in “second civil war”
KKK/white supremacists threatened and killed blacks (and whites) who voted republican/unleashed terror to destroy southern republicans/whippings/assasinations/voting dropped dramatically.
15th amendment (one of three reconstruction amendments)
The right to vote 1869
what was the “second civil war”
war against radical reconstruction
