Chapter 12 Vocabulary Flashcards
(17 cards)
- believed that South should face harsh punishment for “crimes”
- wanted iron-clad oath of loyalty from the Southern states
- wanted full rights, including right to vote, for African-Americans
Radical Republican
- required majority of state’s prewar voters to make an oath of loyalty to Union before restoration could begin
- demanded guarantees of African-American equality
Wade-Davis Bill
Radical Republican plan that sought after food, clothing, health care, and education for both black and white Southern refugees
Freedmen’s Bureau
- Lincoln’s Vice President
- wanted every state to ratify Thirteenth Amendment and draft own constitution that abolished slavery
- resented wealthy Southern planters and other Confederate leaders
Andrew Johnson
laws that sought to limit the rights of African-Americans and force them to remain as landless workers
black codes
- created federal guarantees of civil rights
- superseded any state laws that limited these rights
- vetoed by Andrew Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1866
guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens
14th Amendment
to charge the a governing individual with wrongdoing in office and to remove them from said office
impeach
allowed African Americans to vote
15th Amendment
men who had been locked out of Pre-Civil War politics by wealthier men
scalawags
name for newcomers to the South; Southerners resented them because they felt they were opportunists trying to make a fortune off of the poor economy in the South
carpetbaggers
separation of the races
segregation
combining the races back together
integration
- landowner gave land, seeds, and tools to sharecropper
- because of interest, it was a system of constant debt
sharecropping
same as sharecropping, but sharecropper chose crop and bought own supplies
share-tenancy
tenant pays landowner, but controls own farming
tenant farming
rebuilding of Southern economy after Civil War
Reconstruction
