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Unit 10
APUSH
Question | Answer |
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term for period from 1863-1877 when the major issues concerning the conquered South were addressed | Reconstruction |
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction | Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) |
Welfare agency for those made destitute in war (mainly freed slaves and homeless whites) | Freedmen's Bureau |
leader of Freedmen's Bureau | Oliver Howard |
took over presidency upon Lincoln's assassination | Andrew Johnson |
term for Johnson's plan for Reconstruction | Presidential Reconstruction |
various laws in South after Civil War that denied blacks their civil rights | Black Codes |
phase of Reconstruction that was controlled by Congress, which was dominated at the time by the “radical” Republicans | "Radical Reconstruction" |
radical Republican from Massachusetts | Charles Sumner |
radical Republican from Pennsylvania | Thaddeus Stevens |
law that said all African-Americans were legal citizens and said Black Codes illegal | Civil rights Act of 1866 |
among other things, it obligated states to respect rights of citizens by providing “equal protection of the laws” and “due process” | 14th Amendment |
divided South into military districts, ordered writing of new state constitutions in South, enfranchised all males over 21 | Reconstruction Acts of 1867 |
Prohibited President from removing federal official w/o Congressional approval--Johnson broke this and was impeached | Tenure of Office Act |
to charge a federal official (like the President) with a crime | impeach |
Prohibited any state from denying a citizen’s right to vote based upon “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” | 15th Amendment |
law that guaranteed equal accommodations in public places (hotels, RR, theatres) and prohibited exclusion of blacks from juries | Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
term used for southern Republicans | scalawags |
terms used for northern Republicans who came south during Reconstruction | carpetbaggers |
1st black senator; from Mississippi | Hiram Revels |
southern economic system in which landlord (white) provided seed and tools while poor farmer (black) gave landlord 50% of harvest (typically) as rent | sharecropping |
northern scandal in which railroad investors were stealing government money which was supposed to finance RR and investors bribed Congressmen with free shares of RR stock | Credit Mobilier Affair |
NYC "machine" boss who stole tax money from NYC public ($200 million); was exposed by The New York Times and Thomas Nast (cartoonist) | William “Boss” Tweed |
won Presidential election of 1868 | Ulysses S. Grant |
southern plan to fight Reconstruction by intimidating blacks and white Republicans | Mississippi Plan |
main group that implemented Mississippi Plan | Ku Klux Klan |
officially ended Reconstruction | Compromise of 1877 |