Unit 1 Topic 1 Flashcards
What was black freedom
To read
To start families
How was the south devastated after civil war?
- land destruction
- Economic destruction
- human destruction
- governmental destruction
- southern future
What was southern freedom
Own slaves
To own land
13th amendment
Legally abolish Slavery
Freedman’s Bureau
To help former slaves
Adjust to freedom
Find them jobs
Teach them to read
40 acres and a mule
Give land from former southerners to former slaves
What were Lincoln’s plans
Priority: reunification
1) general forgiveness 2) 10% of population swore alliance 3) no mention of voting rights to freedmen 4) three states already followed requirements
Wade-Davis bill (1864)
To punish the south
1) military rule
2) 50% pledge loyalty
3) abolish slavery
4) former confederate leaders have no voting rights
5) freedman can vote
Black codes
Don’t let blacks
carry alcohol
Marry whites
Vote
Share cropping
Blacks share part of land paying rent with white owner and can’t leave until debt is paid.
Aka slavery all over again
14th amendment (1866)
Defined citizenship
Outlined voting rights for blacks and former confederates
“Equal protection” clause
Ratification necessary to rejoin union
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
1) rejected reconstruction governors
2) military rule in the south
3) harsher terms to rejoin; 50%
4) vetoed but then veto overridden
15th amendment
1) can’t deny vote based on race
2) assures that many southern states won’t be dominated by whites anymore
Tenure of office act (1867)
1: requires a president to get approval from congress before firing people from his cabin
2; to limit Johnson’s power
Scalawags
Southerners who had sympathy with the north
Carpetbaggers
Someone who went from north to south to assume government positions
Election of 1868
- Ulysses s. Grant (republican) war hero
- Horatio Seymour (democrat)
Ulysses won
What happened during grants presidency ?
- Corruption
- panic of 1873
- support for reconstruction fades
Panic of 1873
Depression
Businesses closed
Unemployment
Support for reconstruction fades
1) northern republicans views
2) thought they did all they could for south
3) slowly Southerners went back to old ways/ back in control
4) through intimidation southerners forced black men to vote for who they wanted
5) kkk terrorized blacks to vote for former confederates
6) by 1874 most states were controlled with the same mindset as the confederacy
Election of 1876
- Rutherford b. Hayes (republican)
~pro: helped win civil war - Samuel Tilden (democrat)
~pro: can get rid of corruption
Tilden “won”
Compromise of 1877
1) Tilden gives up
2) u.s army troops have to go home
3) hays pulls them out of south
4) freedman won’t be protected
5) reconstruction comes to an end
