Chapter 12: Reconstruction and its's effects Flashcards
Carptebaggers
Northerners who moved South after the Civil War
Scalawag
A white Southerner who joined the Republican party after the civil war
Hiram Revels
First AfricanAmerican senator
Sharecropping
A system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed and tools in return for part of the crops they harvest
Tenant Farming
a system in which farm workers supply their own tools and sell their farmland for cash
Reconstruction
an impression, model, or re-enactment of a past event formed from the available evidence, or the era after the civil war, where people were still recovering from all the fighting
Radical republicans
Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for the former rebels, and emphasizing civil rights and voting rights for freedmen (recently freed slaves).
Thaddeus Stevens
was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
Wade-Davis Bill
1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.
- Freedman’s Bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War
Black codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans’ freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
- Fourteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment 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.
Impeach
to boot a president out of office… or, rather, to strongly think about it
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment 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.” Strangely enough, this amendment mentions absolutely nothing about gender.
Go figure.
KKK
Ku Klux Klan, or the KKK, was a band of absolute assholes. Their overreaching goal was to silence African American people and restore white supremacy. By, of course, preventing blacks from exercising their political rights. Don’t make me go on a tangent about these… ahem… people. Because I will.
