Semester One Review Flashcards
(226 cards)
Passed to control freedmen and women and exploit them on plantations
Black codes
Former senator from Tennessee
Johnson
Divided the ten southern states into five military districts
Military reconstruction act of 1867
The passage of this act was a deliberate attempt to weaken the power of the presidency
Tenure of office act
Johnson was impeached when he tried to dismiss this secretary of war
Stanton
Republican candidate in 1868 election
Grant
Democratic candidate in the 1868 election
Seymour
The amendment that prohibited any government from denying any male citizen the right to vote
15th amendment
African Americans who served as senators from Mississippi
Bruce and revels
Southern whites who supported republican policies
Scalawags
Northerners who went south after the civil war
Carpetbaggers
Helped to educate both whites and African Americans
The freedmens bereau
Most common form of farm work for freed individuals
Sharecropping
Term often associated with the KKK
Midnight rides
Campaigned against grant unsuccessfully in 1872
Greely
How the southerners referred to the use of federal troops
Bayonet rule
Southern democrats who claimed that they had saved the south from republican rule
Redeemers
An idea Henry Grady came up with
The new south
Founder of the American tobacco company
Duke
A crop that hampered the economic development in the south
A cash crop
Three tactics designed to keep blacks from voting
Poll tax literacy test and the grandfather clause
The Supreme Court law that upheld the Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
This is one of his famous quotes:”The slave went free stood a brief moment in the sun: then moved back again towards slavery
W. E. B Dubois
T/F the wade Davis bill demanded that ten percent of the eligible voters in the south take an oath of allegiance
F