Week 1 IDs

Question 1

Ten-percent plan

Answer 1

Lincoln’s plan that would have required 10 percent of southerners in each state to take an oath of loyalty before the state could be re-admitted.

Question 2

Wade-Davis bill

Answer 2

Required 50% Ironclad Oath, which Lincoln pocket vetos by not addressing the law after congress breaks → WD Bill demonstrates that Radical Repubs were willing to challenge Lincoln’s lenient vision for reconstruction

Question 3

Johnson Government; Presidential Reconstruction

Answer 3

• Sort of a Jacksonian, sympathized with poor whites but not slaves, did not care for plantation owners or calls for disunion in Tennessee
• Very lenient pardon policy except for the rich, made use of presidential pardon, restored land to southerners, did not require freedmen acquire rights or the vote → “white men alone must manage the South”

Question 4

Black Codes

Answer 4

State laws aimed to manage black workforce and limit its economic options .

Question 5

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 5

Outlawed Black Codes and empowered Freedmen’s Bureau to go after violations of the act; Johnson vetoes CRA but he’s overidden by congress.

Question 6

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 6

Implements Military District system and required states to draft new state constitutions which needed to have universal suffrage for men and approval of the 14th amendment.

Question 7

Redemption

Answer 7

• Entailed southern whites redeeming the south from reconstruction
• KKK violence

Question 8

Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871

Answer 8

Federal response to Redemption includes Enforcement Acts 1870-71 and Ku Klux Klan Act 1871 which said that violations, even by individuals (not just states) were subject to federal prosecution by newly created Department of Justice (1870) → 1872 US Grant sends down DoJ officials to the south, results in federal troops breaking the back of the Klan in South Carolina.

Question 9

Slaughterhouse Cases 1873

Answer 9

Louisiana govt grants slaughterhouse monopoly to one company; other slaughterhouses sue based on the 14th amendment, saying that their property and due process rights are violated → ruling that butchers rights were not violated and that the issue cited was a state concern, not covered by 14th amendment based on the idea that it alters state/federal govt relations (to which radical repubs would say of course that was the point) → also says that the 14th amendment covers only a narrow set of federal rights (interstate transport, running for federal office, travel to seat of govt, and travel on the high seas).