Reconstruction Flashcards
(148 cards)
Jim crow laws
laws meant to suppress blacks
Dejure segregation
Defacto segregation
dejure: segregation by law
defacto: segregation by choice/custom
Plessy vs Ferguson
Date?
What did it do?
1898
separate but equal
Homestead Act
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
Morrill Land grant act
set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
education accessable and cheap
On liberty and the Union
Webster
Jacksons
Calhoun
Webster: liberty and union is inseparable
Jackson: union of upmost importance
Calhoun: Liberty> union
13th amendment
ends slavery
(except in prison)
14th amendment
civil rights
15th amendment
right to vote for black men
Lincoln’s plan:
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
amnesty
forgiveness/pardon for fighting
Wade-Davis BIll
required 50% of voters to take oath of allegiance
state constitution changed
state suicide theory
conquered provinces position
Andrew Jackson’s 10% plan
simple oath for reinstatement for all but confederate military; and those with property must pay 20,000
Black codes
turned freedpeople into labor force for planter; denied freed people farms, hunting, refused them access to money and credit
Ida B Wells
fought for women’s and black’s rights
fought and exposed lynching- used white newspapers to prove inhumanity and racist
Klan was not a ____________ organization
secret
When the north leaves __________ __ _________ _____
everything goes to shit
radical reconstitution
authorities subject to military observation
new constitutions must include: black suffrage, 13th and 14th amendments
black voters protected by military
states left for as long as ___ years
12
Military reconstruction act
restart reconstruction
Command Army Act
prohibited the president from issuing military orders except through the commanding general of the army
Tenure of office act
unconstitutional act that made the president not allowed to remove officials without senate approval
yeomen
small farm owners
planters
wealthy slaveholding class that had dominated southern politics and society during the war; sought full restoration of power and slavery