Reconstruction Flashcards

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Jim crow laws

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laws meant to suppress blacks

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Dejure segregation

Defacto segregation

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dejure: segregation by law

defacto: segregation by choice/custom

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Plessy vs Ferguson

Date?
What did it do?

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1898

separate but equal

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Homestead Act

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provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land

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Morrill Land grant act

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set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”

education accessable and cheap

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On liberty and the Union

Webster
Jacksons
Calhoun

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Webster: liberty and union is inseparable
Jackson: union of upmost importance
Calhoun: Liberty> union

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13th amendment

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ends slavery

(except in prison)

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14th amendment

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civil rights

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15th amendment

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right to vote for black men

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Lincoln’s plan:

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10% plan: prioritizes the union

amnesty during war

needed 10% of whites to take oath to be reinstated as a state

nothing about role of blacks

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amnesty

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forgiveness/pardon for fighting

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Wade-Davis BIll

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required 50% of voters to take oath of allegiance

state constitution changed

state suicide theory

conquered provinces position

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Andrew Jackson’s 10% plan

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simple oath for reinstatement for all but confederate military; and those with property must pay 20,000

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Black codes

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turned freedpeople into labor force for planter; denied freed people farms, hunting, refused them access to money and credit

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Ida B Wells

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fought for women’s and black’s rights

fought and exposed lynching- used white newspapers to prove inhumanity and racist

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Klan was not a ____________ organization

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secret

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When the north leaves __________ __ _________ _____

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everything goes to shit

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radical reconstitution

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authorities subject to military observation

new constitutions must include: black suffrage, 13th and 14th amendments

black voters protected by military

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states left for as long as ___ years

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12

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Military reconstruction act

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restart reconstruction

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Command Army Act

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prohibited the president from issuing military orders except through the commanding general of the army

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Tenure of office act

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unconstitutional act that made the president not allowed to remove officials without senate approval

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yeomen

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small farm owners

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planters

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wealthy slaveholding class that had dominated southern politics and society during the war; sought full restoration of power and slavery

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freedman bureau bill
renewed bureau and widening of powers
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sharecropper:
tenant farmer who gives part of crops as rent replaces slavery
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Ku Klux Klan
paramilitary organization; white supremacist, mass murderers, terrorist acts
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Enforcement Act of 1870
prohibited use of force or threat against anyone trying to vote or register to vote
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Ku Klux Klan Act
gave federal gover broad powers to arrest and prosecute individuals who conspire to deprive citizens of right to vote, hold office and serve on juries
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Liberal Republicans
wanted excessive police power in hands of federal government in the expense of states
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Redeemers:
vigilante violence, faced economic depression, northern hater
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lynchings
extralegal murder of individuals by vigilantes racist
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southern horrors: lynch Law in All Its Phases
documented the souths lynching culture and exposed the myth of the black rapist
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Red shirt
paramilitary organizations dedicated to eradicating black political participants and restoring democratic rule through violence and intimidation
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Lost cause:
glorification of confederacy in media
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manufacturing industries
railroads and road building and other industries grew but plantations remained king
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jobs for freed people
whites: better pay Blacks: dangerous, dirty, intense, lowest paying jobs factories separated Women: help white families
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Debt Peonage
a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. constantly in debt
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compromise of 1877
end reconstruction democrats agree to swing vote so republicans can become president if they will leave south screws over black people
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W.E.B Debois
you must challenge segregation because if not, accepting it top 10% of blacks will lead calls Booker t washington house slave
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Who is Ida B. Wells' intended audience
white women, educated blacks, northern lawmakers, moderates, london
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One drop rule
The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification
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Brown vs Board
ends segregation legally
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Marcus Garvey
blacks> whites black nationalism united N.I.L.; Malcom X
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difference of brazilian and USA in slavery
brazil: fear slave, not black USA: fear broth the slave and black
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Ethos
Ethos appeals to the speaker's status or authority, making the audience more likely to trust them.
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logos
Logos appeals to the audience's reason, building up logical arguments.
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Pathos
appeals to the emotions, trying to make the audience feel angry or sympathetic, for example.
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