Unit 5 Test 2 Flashcards
Legal Tender Act
A series of United States Supreme Court cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money.
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized secessionist state existing from 1861-1865
National Bank Act
Two United States federal banking acts that established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System.
Morill Tariff Act
An increased tariff in the United States, adopted on March 2, 1861, during the administration of President James Buchanan, a Democrat.
It was a key element of the platform of the new Republican Party, and it appealed to industrialists and factory workers as a way to foster rapid industrial growth
Homestead Act
The first of the acts, the Homestead Act of 1862, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.
Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant.
Morill Land Grant Act
United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges
Emancipation Proclamation
A presidential proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States.
It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion,[2] excluding areas controlled by the Union
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”.
Copperheads
The Copperheads were a vocal faction of Democrats located in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. Republicans started calling antiwar Democrats “Copperheads”, likening them to the venomous snake.
Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.
Freedman’s Bureau
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen’s Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction era of the United States.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27-30, enacted April 9, 1866, was the first United States federal law to define US citizenship and affirmed that all citizens were equally protected by the law.
Congressional Reconstruction
Reconstruction attempts (bills, acts, et cetera) during the Reconstruction Era made by Congress
Reconstruction Act
Supplemented later by three related acts, divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme.
Tenure of Office Act
A United States federal law (in force from 1867 to 1887) that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate.
