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Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan
A southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters swore and Oath of Allegiance to the Union.
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Radical Republicans
Believed that blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.
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Wade-Davis Bill
Required 50 percent of a state’s white population to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union. In addition, states were required to give blacks the right to vote.
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Special Field Order 15
William T. Sherman issued this order which confiscated as Union property a strip of coast line. The order redistributed about 400,000 acres of land to newly freed black families in forty-acre segments.
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Freedmen's Bureau
Was known as the Bureau of Refugees established by congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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Black Codes
Laws passed by Southern states in 1865-66 with the intent of restricting African Americans’ freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
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Lincoln’s Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 at a theatre by an actor named John Wilkes Booth, a confederate sympathizer.
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13th Amendment
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Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition.
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Ku Klux Klan
Functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan’s goals include defeating the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy.
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Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union
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“Great Constitutional Revolution” concept introduced by Carl Schurz
The laws and amendments of Reconstruction reflected the intersection of two products of the civil war era, a newly empowered national state, and the idea of a national citizenry enjoying equality before the law.
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Scalawag
Southerners who believed that whites should recognize blacks’ civil and political rights while still retaining control of political and economic life.
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14th Amendment
Granted all citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
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Impeachment of President Johnson
The House of Representatives impeached Johnson due to his “high crimes and misdemeanors”
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Sharecropping
System where landlords or planters allow a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
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Enforcement Act of May 1870
Prohibited groups of people from banding together with the intention to violate citizens’ constitutional rights.
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15th
Allowed all races to be able to vote.
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Second Force Act
Placed administration of national elections under the control of federal government and empowered federal judge and United States marshals to supervise local polling places.
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Third Force Act
Empowered the president to use the armed forces to combat those who conspired to deny equal protection of the laws and to suspend habeas corpus if necessary to enforce the act.
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Slaughterhouse Cases
A state may grant business monopolies to some of its citizens but not to others without running afoul of the Constitution.
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/CivilRightsAct1875.htm
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Civil RIghts Act of 1875
Says all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and public areas.
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Bargain of 1877
The secret deal ensured that the Republican Party candidate, Rutherford Hayes, would become the next president and that the Democrats would regain political power in the southern state governments.
http://www.american-historama.org/1866-1881-reconstruction-era/compromise-of-1877.htm
