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a period from end of the civil war 1877, proved to be testing for american values
reconstruction
Black american that has been freed from slavery
freedman
a plan for bringing the seceded states back into the union
presidential reconstruction
required 10% of registered voters in the state to swear allegiance
10 percent plan
republicans who believed that those who had led the south into rebellion should not be allowed back. Into power
radical republicans
a state could reenter the Union when 50% of its registered voters had taken an oath of allegiance
wade-davis bill
a group pardon
amnesty
abolished slavery
the 13th amendment
restrictive codes placing black people in inferior positions to white people. Could be considered another form of slavery
black codes
committee formed by moderate and radical republicans to oversee reconstruction
joint committee on reconstruction
Led the radical republicans in the house
Thaddeus Stevens
the leader of the radical republicans in the senate
Charles summer
short term agency set up by congress to provide aid for freedman in the south
freedman’s bureau
full citizenship for black people. Would cancel black codes
14th amendment
the radicals worked to ensure congress and not the president would control reconstruction. Gave black people the right to vote and hold office
radical reconstruction
ordered the army to ensure the south complied with congressional mandates. It divided that south into 5 military districts ruled by a union general general and provisional Governor
reconstruction act of 1867
Northerners who traveled south to help with reconstruction were stereotyped as taking advantage of the southerners
carpetbaggers
a white southerner that supported reconstruction
scalawag
the house files charges against the president, the senate holds the trial, and the supreme court judges =. A 1/3 vote of the senate is required for the file president guilty
impeachment
made it illegal for the president to remove any appointee who had been approved by the senate unless the senate also approves the dismissal
tenure of office act
secretary of war was fired by johnson but refused to leave office, because of this firing congress believed they had grounds to impeach johnson
Edwin Stanton
negotiated the treaty to buy ‘‘frigidia’’
William Seward
kept states from denying the vote to any citizen on account of race, color, or previous condition to servitude. Took effect in 1870
15th amendment
used in the 1860’s and 1870’s to refer to conservative democrats =( both north and south) who still held the ideas of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson and in the 1870’s to refer to the regimes set up in south by redeemers as a conservative against reconstruction
bourbon reconstruction