Reconstruction Flashcards
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What is Lincolns Approach?
Lincoln’s Approach is peace
After the war who saved our democracy?
Washington
What happened to the south in the war?
It was destroyed
13th amendment
abolished slavery
14th amendment
grants and defines citizenship
15th amendment
prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous enslavement
Who was the southerner Lincoln put as VPOTUS
Andrew Johnson
What did Andrew Johnson do?
He erased all the good things Lincoln did
What are Black Codes?
Laws that severely limited the right to freedmen
African Americans were forbidden from…
V - Voting
O - Ownership of guns
R - Running for Political Office
S- Serving on juries
What is Terrorism
Using violence to get to a political point.
Who was Thadeuss Stevens?
Thadeuss Stevens was a president who had modern day ideas
What is Congress vs Johnson
Where Johnson vetoes and congress overrides the veto (Every time)
What is Radical Reconstuction?
The south is gone and there is an army who tells you what to do
The freedmen’s bureau is?
To not be a slave:
Land
Voting
Education
Grant was a bad slave owner because?
he worked with the slaves then was told this was bad so he went and freed the slaves
Grant almost got rid of?
the Ku Klux Klan or KKK
Election of 1877
tie in votes and people who were republicans (grant) voted democratic because grant was such a BAD president!
What did Hayes do?
Nothing
What is the loophole in amendment 15?
That the amendment says you can vote if you are a different race but it doesn’t say you can’t tell them they can’t vote if they are a woman, dumb, etc…
Grandfather clause?
Says that if your grandfather could vote so could you.
Lynching?
The face of political murder AKA murder that wants to be seen by the public
What is Sharecropping?
A rented piece of land is shared between the owner and the worker. The worker spends all their money on the land and, as a result, owes the owner money for all the miscellaneous items. In the end, they owe more than they earn, and this is compounded by a law that prohibits workers from leaving their employers if they owe them money.
