Unit 4 Day 1 Flashcards
What led to the 14th amendment
A 3 day scuffle that left 48 African Americans dead
What was the 14th amendment
enforcing US Citizenship rights
Who was the president after Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
What party was Andrew Johnson
A Unionist Democrat
Who refused to sign the 14th amendment
Andrew Johnson
What did the reconstruction act allow southern states to do?
Re-enter the union
Why was there a struggle with powers following the civil war?
There was no clarity on who can allow Southern states to re-enter the Union
What 2 things did Lincoln want Southern states to do before they were allowed to enter the union?
Approve the 13th amendment, and have 10% of its voters take a loyalty oath
What did the Wade-Davis Bill require southern states to do before being re-admitted into the union?
Majority must take an oath of alliegence
Who was disenfranchised under the Wade-Davis Bill?
Confederate leaders
Who rejected the Wade-Davis Bill by a pocket Veto?
Lincoln
Who did many unionists blame for Lincoln’s assassination?
All confederates
Who was a “common man”
Johnson
What did black codes attempt to do?
Force former slaves back to plantation labor
What mixed signals did Johnson give
Said he was against southern planters, but allied with ex-confederate leaders and pardoned them
Who is this in reference to: “You have become a benefactor of the Southern people”
Johnson
What did congress to in December 1865
Blocked Johnson’s program
Why was the Freedmen’s bureau created
to combat racial violence in the South
What did the Freedmen’s bureau do?
Give aid to displaced blacks and other war refugees
What was the name of the act that declared formerly enslaved people as citizens with equal protection and rights of contract, and full access to the courts.
Civil Rights act of 1866
What two bills did Johnson veto
Civil Rights Act, Freedmen’s Bureau
Who said this: “As long as I am president, it should be a government for white men”
Johnson
What happened to the Civil Rights Act and Freedmen’s Bureau
Congress passed them with a 2/3 majority
What writing states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” were citizens
The 14th amendment
What political party wanted sweeping transformations in the defeated South
Radical Republicans
Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans?
Charles Sumner
Who was the House’s representative in Pennsylvania who was a passionate advocate of political and economic rights?
Thaddeus Stevens
Who was suspended as Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton
Who replaced Stanton as secretary of war
Ulysses S. Grant
What did Johnson misjudge about Grant?
His loyalty, he was an open enemy of Johnson’s
What did Grant humbly do?
Resign so Stanton could resume his place as secretary of war
How many counts of misconduct against Johnson were brought up in the house
11
How close was the senate to convicting Johnson
One vote short
Who was the republican’s nomination in the 1868 election
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the democrat’s nomination in the 1868 election
former New York governor Horatio Seymour
Who won the 1868 election?
Ulysses S. Grant
Which amendment protected a male citizen’s right to vote irrespective of are color or “previous conditions of servitude”
The 15th amendment
What writing does this quote refer to “The colored people of these Southern states have cast their lot with the government”
The 15th amendment
What did many women hope would come with the 15th amendments
Women’s voting rights
What was the main reason republicans were against women’s enfranshisment
Because it would “distract” from race rights
What party did the American Woman Suffrage Association belong to
Republicans
Which women’s right committee took up battle for a federal suffrage amendment
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
What supreme court case ruled that state legislators could deny women the vote if they wished
Minor v. Happersett (1875)
Who said “I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional, and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short period as I can; to change that love every day if I please” and what milestone did she break
Victoria Woodhull, first female stockbroker on wall street
What was the Beecher-Tilton scandal
When Woodhull accused a minister of having affairs
What was the first territory to give women full voting rights
Wyoming
to what did the issue of resettlement of blacks fall to
The Freedmen’s bureau
What did Johnson’s amnesty plan allow confederates to do
recover property seized from the war