Unit 1 Flashcards
Black Codes
The black codes were laws to regulate Black behavior and impose social and economic control. They weren’t allowed to own property, have a business and weren’t allowed to buy and lease land.
13th amendment
The amendment legally abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
14th Amendment
The House of Representatives approved the Fourteenth Amendment on June 13, 1866. Section One granted citizenship. Everybody who was born in the U.S. even if their parents werem’t born would be granted citizenship.
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This garenteed protection against racial discrimination in voting.
Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce and other African American Lawmakers
Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce was chosen as U.S. senators from Mississippi. At least 270 other African American men served in patronage positions as postmasters, customs officials, assessors, and ambassadors. At the state level, more than 1,000 African American men held offices in the South.
Ku Klux Klan
The KKK started in Pulaski, Tennessee. They were a gang that committed acts of violence against African Americans.
Enforcement Acts
The acts were passed between 1870 and 1871. The acts made it criminal to take away African Americans civil rights. The acts also said that the KKK was an act of rebellion against the US. It allowed for the use of U.S. troops to protect freedpeople. If the states failed to act, the laws allowed the federal government to intervene.
Redeemers
They are the southern wing of the democratic party that followed after the civil war and were against blacks having equal rights with everyone else.
Depression of 1873
The depression of 1873 was the first depression in the history of the USA. Wages plummeted and trapped workers in a long cycle of poverty.
1874 House Election
The Democrats took control in the 1874 house of representatives elections because of The Depression of 1873. They were held on various dates in various states between June 1, 1874 and September 7, 1875.
Mississippi Plan
The Mississippi plan was meant to intimidate Black activists and Black voters. The state’s Republican governor pleaded for federal intervention, but national Republicans ignored the plea.
1876 Presidential Election
On the eve of the 1876 presidential election, the nation still reeled from depression. There were wide allegations of electoral fraud, election violence, and other disfranchisement of predominantly Republican Black voters.
Compromise of 1877
Democrats threatened to boycott Hayes’s inauguration. Rival governments claimed that Tilden was the rightfully elected president. Republicans then reached out to democrats, known as the Compromise of 1877.
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism identified a natural order that extended from the laws of the cosmos to the workings of industrial society. It was a theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection
Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor enjoyed considerable success in the early 1880s, due in part to its efforts to unite skilled and unskilled workers. They were founded in 1869 and pressed for 8 hour work days for laborers.
