Exam 1 Flashcards
(56 cards)
Lincoln promotes him as lead general
Grant
Anaconda plan
Unions strategy to winning the war
Grant vs Lee in Virginia
Petersburg
17,000 Yankee troops killed in 10 minutes
Lincoln’s 10% plan 1863
10% white males in each state have to swear loyalty oath to Union
Acknowledged that slavery is over in the States
Wade-Davis Bill 1864
2 oaths will be taken my white men
- loyalty
- iron clad oath.
-I never fought or voluntarily supported the Confederacy
Johnson’s Restoration 1865
Blanket amnesty
Home rule for south
Home rule
From Johnson’s restoration plan, like old states rights
13th amendments
Slavery is ended
Radical republicans
Heroic
Support civil rights and African American equality
Freedman’s Bureau
Helped millions of blacks and whites with food, clothing
Congressional Reconstruction 1867-1877
Military construction acts
14th amendment
Defines citizenship
Equal protection of the law and due process
15th amendment
African American men right to vote
Johnson’s impeachment
Violates Tenure of Office Act
Tenure of Office Act
President can’t remove any cabinet member; all cabinet must serve the entire term of the preside that appointed them.
Era of Good Stealings
Grant administration faced with 4 major scandals
Shotgun Policy and Redemption
Use violence to force out Republican politicians to give up their seats
Compromise of 1877
Hayes has to withdraw troops from the south to end Reconstruction
Black codes
Like old slave codes
No interracial marriages
No job except for share cropping
Sharecropping
Economic inequality
Get around 13th amendment
Convict lease system
Jailed for petty crimes and worked to death
Jim Crow
Social inequality
Get around 14th amendment
White control over African Americans
Legal separation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Train ticket ruling 8 to 1
Says segregation doesn’t violate the 14th amendment
Justice Harlan Dissent
Lonely vote in Plessy vs.Ferguson decision
Pall mall rule
