AP US History Unit 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
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When Andrew Johnson conducted the re-enfranchisement of the the Southern States; it was considered too lenient by other sources of power and many Northerners
Presidential Reconstruction
The period when the Legislative Branch of the United States took over the rebuilding of the South as well as the South’s re-admission to the Union; it was rather punitive and many Southerners despised Northern interventions into what they saw as states’ rights
Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction
Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress who sought to punish the South for starting the Civil War
Thaddeus Stevens
Constitutional law that freed all slaves
13th Amendment
Constitutional law that gave citizenship and equal rights to former slaves
14th Amendment
Constitutional law that ensured that the states had to allow black men the right to vote
15th Amendment
Government agency set up to assist former slaves in finding jobs, giving them medical help, providing food and shelter, etc; it was largely under-funded and was not very successful
Freedman’s Bureau
A white supremacist group who sought to terrorize blacks who attempted to participate in politics and society by using lynch mobs to hang people, burning crosses on people’s property, as well as other forms of terrorism and violence
Ku Klux Klan
Caused the price of cotton to drop dramatically, forcing many to sell their land to the rich and forced people into sharecropping
Panic of 1873’s impact on cotton
Used at first extensively by former slaves because they had no money; people grew crops and instead of paying a land lord with cash, he was paid with a percentage of the farmer’s produce
Sharecropping
Because people had no cash, they offered their future crops to merchants in return for loans to buy tools and seed
Crop Lien
Farmers who rented the land that they farmed instead of owning it; they were often very poor and could not escape constant debt to landlords and merchants
Tenant Farmers
The removal of black people’s rights and citizenship
Disenfranchisement
Laws specifically designed by racist Southern state governments to limit the freedoms of black Americans
Jim Crow Laws
A Supreme Court decision which stated that Americans have dual citizenship; state citizenship rights include rights not in the Constitution and are protected by state governments, national citizenship rights are explained in the Constitution and are protected by the federal government. The two spheres of power do not overlap. States can deny rights provided the Constitution
Slaughter House Cases
Racist Laws to prevent Black Americans from voting; stated that if your grandfather was in a “previous state of servitude” you could not vote
Grandfather Clauses
Racist Laws to require Black Americans to pass reading and writing tests in order to vote
Literacy Tests
Racist Laws that required people to pay a tax to vote; aimed at disenfranchising poor Black Americans
Poll Taxes
Congressional law that prohibited discrimination in public places
Equal Rights Act of 1875
Supreme Court cases that nullified the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by allowing states to discriminate against black Americans
United States v. Reese and United States v. Cruikshank
This caused many to want to focus resources away from rebuilding the South and re-enfranchising blacks, to more pressing economic concerns
Impact of the Panic of 1873 on Reconstruction
The winner of the Electoral College did NOT win the presidential election
Election of 1876
A fifteen-member delegation of Democratic and Republican Congressmen and Supreme Court Justices made a deal to end Reconstruction in exchange for a Northern Republican President, Rutherford B. Hayes
Compromise of 1877
Supreme Court Decision that allowed states and private businesses to segregate black Americans from white Americans as long as the facilities were “equal”
Plessy v. Ferguson