| A | B |
|---|
| believed that Congress should have control and that South needs to be punished and remade from what it was before war | Radical Republicans |
| theory that seceding states ceased to exist and therfore those states are conquered territory | "state suicide" theory |
| percent of Radical Republicans out of Republicans in congress | 2/3 |
| Republicans passed this plan of Reconstruction in spring of 1864 but it was pocket-vetoed by LIncoln and therefore didn't become law | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Lincoln's theory that there was no secession and only a group of individuals had rebelled | "State of Insurrection" Theory |
| Lincoln's Democratic VP in 1864 | Andrew Johnson |
| Lincoln's plan of reconstruction that was supported by those who believed the pres. should control reconstruction | Ten Percent Plan/ Executive Reconstruction |
| three states where the ten percent plan passed | Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee |
| laws that applied only to freedmen | Black Codes |
| place where Lincoln was assassinated | Ford's Theater |
| man who assassinated Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| man who said "Now he belongs to the ages" | Secretary of War Stanton |
| man who set Booth's leg out of ignorence | Dr. Mudd |
| TN Democrat who became an accidental president after Lincoln died | Andrew Johnson |
| these states still passed Johnson's revised reconstruction plan | Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia |
| freed slaves everywhere and was ratified in 1865 | 13th Amendment |
| was supposed to guarantee all rts. to citizens (including blacks!) | 14th Amendment |
| stated that there would be no discrimination in voting on basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude/ratified in 1870 | 15th Amendment |
| during this mid-term election there was exactly 2/3 Senate and over 2/3 House are Rad. Reps. | 1866 |
| made it hard for a president to fire a tenured member of cabinet (would have to get permission from congress) | Tenure of Office Act |
| Secretary of War during Lincoln and Johnson's presidency and who was fired by Johnson | Edwin Stanton |
| this act gave Johnson a law to break so that congress would have an excuse to impeach him | Tenure of Office Act |
| Radical Republican from Kansas who was telling vote and voted nay on indightment for Johnson based on his conscience | Senator Edmund Ross |
| only state exempt from Congressional/Radical Reconstruction as a sort of hats off to Johnson | Tennessee |
| place where Ku Klux Klan was founded and one of main founders | Pulaski, Tenn. and Nathan Bedford Forrest |
| Congressional/Radical Reconstruction did this to all ex-CS by taking away the right to vote | disenfranchised |
| plan of reconstruction that wanted to divide former states into five districts | Congressional/Radical Reconstruction |
| negative term for a native-born Southernor who cooperated w/Radical Reconstruction | scalawag |
| only black governor from this state | P.B.S. Pinchback, Louisiana |
| this state had a legislature dominated by blacks in one house for two years | South Carolina |
| name given to those blacks who moved in a mass across the Miss. R. to Kansas | Exodusters |
| founded by Congress as a primitive welfare to provide for freedmen and white refugees | Freemen's Bureau |
| former Union general who headed the Freedmen's Bureau and foudned a university in D.C. | Oliver O. Howard |
| required that 50% of a state's voters take oath of allegiance, rammed through congress but pocket-vetoed by Lincoln | Wade-Davis Bill |
| Congress refused to seat this state's delegates after they met the requirements of Lincoln's ten percent plan | Louisiana |
| laws designed to regulate the affairs of blacks | Black Codes |
| 1st state to pass Black Code in Nov. 1865 | Mississippi |
| passed by Republicans and gave blacks the priviledge of American citizenship and struck at black codes | Civil Rights Bill |
| most powerful Radical in the Senate who worked for black freedom and racial equality | Charles Sumner |
| most powerful Radical in House, 76 yrs old from Penn., devoted friend of blacks | Thaddeus Stevens |
| this act divided the South into five military districts commanded by a Union general and policed by soldiers, temp. disenfranchised former CS | Reconstruction Act |
| Supreme court case that ruled military tribunals couldn't be used to try citizens even in war times in areas where civil courts were open | Ex parte Milligan |
| two women's rts. activists who were disappointed with the 15th Amendment | Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| orig. a pro-union org. based in north that bcme. a network of political clubs that campaigned for Reps. and was supported by blacks | Union League |
| two black Senators elected to congres | Hiram Revels and Blanche R. Bruce |
| former Unionists and Whigs in the South accused of plundering Southern treasuries through their political influence | Scalawags |
| supposedly sleazy Northernors who moved South in search of personal power and profits | Carpetbaggers |
| pres. pro-tempore of the Senate from OH who would have bcme. pres. if Johnson had been found guilty | Ben Wade |
| sec. of state who signed a treaty that bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 | Seward |
| country that Alaska was bought from | Russia |
| year Alaska was bought | 1867 |
| Seward's folley | Alaska |
| only place that land was taken away from slaveowner and divided up and given to former slaves | Jefferson Davis's plantation at Port Gibson |
| an insulting term for people who moved South to take advantage and make money | Carpetbagger |
| negative term for a native-born Southernor who cooperated with Radical Reconstruction | scalawag |
| the thought that after the civil war and during Reconstruction, blacks had taken over the government in the South | Myth of Black Rule |
| sole black governor from some state?and who became gov. only bcse. former was impeached | P.B.S. Pinchback and Louisiana |
| roughly the years of Reconstruction | 1869-1877 |
| Reconstruction ended first in this state | Tennessee |
| name for white native Southernors who had supported the CS | Redeemers/Bourban Redeemers |
| largest group in the South | Redeemers |
| groups that took the law into their own hands | vigilantes |
| examples of vigilantes | KKK, Knights of the White Camelia |
| this vigilante decided to undermine the carpetbag govs by scaring/killing freedmen and white Reps | KKK |
| gave wide pardon to almost all ex-CS | Amnesty Act |
| When and who finally pardoned Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee? | Jimmy Carter in 1977 |
| only three states to retain carpetbag govs after the Union troops leave the South | SC, LA, FL |
| this Republican won the election of 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Democratic nominee in 1876 election who stopped corruption in New York | Samuel Tilden |
| this group was appointed to decide about the 20 votes in question in the 1876 election | Electoral Commission of 1877 |
| political deal betwn. new southern Dem. and Reps. so that the SD would vote R and then one would be put in cabinet and Southernors could control own patronage and Union troops would withdraw from S. | Compromise of 1877 |
| term coined by Henry Grady an editor for the Atlanta Constitution | "New South" |
| coined the term New South | Henry Grady |
| what two kinds of ____ became the "new slavery" in the South | sharecropping and tenant farming |
| this was where the crop was split 50/50 but one party had to rent equipment,etc. and pay other party back | sharecropping |
| the SYSTEM where split crop fifty/fifty but had to pay back for equipment (the credit part) | crop lien system |
| where you had to pay to vote and keep name on registers | pole tax |
| this allowed for exceptions in pole taxes for poor whites | grandfather clauses |
| if you had a relative that had voted before 1850, then you were exempt from the pole tax | grandfather clauses |
| ways Redeemers got around the problem of the 15th Amendment | pole taxes and literacy tests |
| first state to adopt literacy tests | Mississippi |
| black doctor who sued the state of Mississippi because they wouldn't let him register ot vote | Williams |
| court case that ruled in favor of literacy tests and the "words of the law" | Williams vs. Mississippi |
| set up a legal system that separated blacks from whites at public institutions | "Jim Crow" Laws/ System of Segregation |
| a black educator who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama but believed blacks should ignore politics unitl whites realized that blacks should be able to vote | Booker T. Washington |
| famous speech by Booker T. Washington to whites that blacks should focus on education and ignore politics until whites realized blacks should be allowed to vote | The Atlanta Compromise |
| the view that the Confederacy was not bad | "moonlight and magnolias" view of US history |
| organization for civil war soldiers that allowed both US and CS in 1899 | GAR/ Grand Army of the Republic |
| 1910 book that described CS as a patriotic thing | The Klansman |
| made a movie called Birth of a Nation based on The Klansman that (1) portrayed all slaves as happy (2) all whites as educated and cultured (3) CS as good | D.W. Griffith |
| movie based on The Klansman that (1) portrayed all slaves as happy (2) all whites as educated and cultured (3) CS as good | Birth of a Nation |
| Supreme Court Case where a black doctor sued bcse. all tickets for black train cars sold out and was denied a white one, court decided in favor of train and Jim Crow laws with "separate but equal" facilities | Plessy vs. Ferguson |
