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| Federal Gov. Agency that aided freed slaves during reconstruction |
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction-1863
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| It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation. Also, a state legislature could write a new constitution, but it also had to abolish slavery forever. |
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| When a president does not pass a bill, and congress goes out of session. |
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Stated:
-States that still need to be re-admitted to The Union, after the Civil War, would have the governor to be appointed by the President.
-50% or more of the population is require to take "Ironclad Oath", then they can elect representatives to Congress.
-Punish Confederate Leaders by stripping them of their property and pay back debts during the War.
-The South must abolish Slavery.
Lincoln Pocket Vetoed |
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| An American stage actor who assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's theater in 1865. |
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| Proclamation of Amnesty 1865 |
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| Johnson issued this granting amnesty to all persons who have directly or indirectly taken part in the rebellion, with the restoration of all rights of property except as to slaves |
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| Presidential Reconstruction |
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| During this period Lincoln signed a bill into law outlawing slavery in Washington D.C. and freeing the estimated 3,500 slaves in the city and on June 19, 1862 he signed legislation outlawing slavery in all U.S. territories. |
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| A short-lived policy, during the last stages of the American Civil War in 1865, of providing arable land to black former slaves who had become free |
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| limited the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks through separate but equal |
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| Stated if you were born in the US you were automatically a citizen |
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| prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery) |
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| Opposed Lincoln in terms of selection of generals, and his efforts to bring states back into the Union. They passed their own Reconstruction plan through Congress in 1864, but Lincoln vetoed it and was putting his own policies in effect when he was assassinated in 1865. They pushed for the uncompensated abolition of slavery, while Lincoln wanted to pay loyal owners. |
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| as long as the southerners rebelled against the union; they had forfeited their rights under the U.S. constitution. |
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| Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction |
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| The three reconstruction amendments(13th, 14th, and 15th) were passed during this time. |
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| The first Reconstruction Act that placed ten Confederate states under military control, grouping them into five military districts |
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| Denied president the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by a past president, without the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. |
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| Commander of the Army Act |
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| An act issued in 1867 that forced Andrew Johnson to issue military orders through the general of the army (then Ulysses S. Grant) instead of directly to the south. |
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| Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
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| First Impeachment ever from violation of the Tenure of Office Act, because he fired the Secretary of War. |
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| a term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, |
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| a derogatory nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War. |
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| "Africanization" of the South |
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| a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks, carpetbaggers, scalawags and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South |
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| was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks, carpetbaggers, scalawags and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South. |
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| One of the chief reasons for its passage was to protect southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan by providing a civil remedy for abuses then being committed in the South. |
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| mandated racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. |
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| a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. |
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| unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction. Through it, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Samuel J. Tilden |
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| Won the disputed 1877 Election due to the Compromise of 1877. Was the last president during the Reconstruction Era of the US. |
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| was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876 |
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| the first permanent English settlement |
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| is the name of a Virginia Indian confederation of tribes. |
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| when the Virginia company offered 50 acres to anyone who paid their own passage to the new world. They did this as an incentive to travel across the Atlantic |
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| was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas |
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| an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. |
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| Following the arrival of the Europeans, tobacco became increasingly popular as a trade item. It fostered the economy for the southern United States |
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| a war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of Native American tribes. Warriors from numerous tribes joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region. |
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| The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. |
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| was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. |
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| were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America |
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| was the chief American means to gain the attention of faraway British policymakers. |
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| a direct action by colonists in Boston, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies |
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| duties that directly affected the internal affairs of the colonies |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. |
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| was a turning point in the Revolutionary War against Britain |
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| a decisive victory by a combined assault of American forces led by General George Washington and French forces led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. |
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| a meeting in 1786 at Annapolis, Maryland, of 12 delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) that unanimously called for a constitutional convention. |
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| established territorial governments in the Great Lakes Region and set a pattern for future western development |
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Large States Plan:
Sought to-
a)scrap the articles of confederation
b)create a congress with two houses
c)establish a federal judiciary
d)establish a president who is elected by congress
e)in general create a centralized system of government in which congress had veto power over the actions of the state |
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Small States Plan:
a)revision of the Articles of Confederation
b)bicameral legislature |
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| was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention. It retained the bicameral legislature, along with proportional representation in the lower house, but required the upper house to be weighted equally between the states. |
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| a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the enumerated population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| “Necessary and Proper” Clause |
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| The first practical example of this came in 1791, when Hamilton used the clause to defend the constitutionality of the creation of the First Bank of the United States, the first federal bank in the new nation's history. |
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| the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution |
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| was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury. |
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| a diplomatic incident that almost led to war between the United States and France. |
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| an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and French Republic |
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| were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution's reign of terror and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. |
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| and the subsequent Non intercourse Acts were American laws restricting American ships from engaging in foreign trade between the years of 1807 and 1812. |
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| Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 |
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| This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for those bound for British or French ports |
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| Lewis and Clark/Corps of Discovery |
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| the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific Coast by the United States |
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| was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. |
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| stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention |
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| a term used to describe policies which emphasize domestic control of the economy, labor and capital formation, even if this requires the imposition of tariffs and other restrictions on the movement of labor, goods and capital. |
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| was a mercantilist economic plan that played a prominent role in American policy during the first half of the 19th century. |
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| a drastic change in the manual labor system |
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| was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the British at the Battle of New Orleans |
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| Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
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Gave the president power to negotiate with Indian tribes
Authorized treaties with eastern Indian tribes
Allowed Jackson to negotiate treaties to get Indian tribes to move west |
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| the name given to the controversy over the Second Bank of the United States and the attempts to destroy it by President Andrew Jackson. |
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| an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths, |
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| s a circle of latitude that is 36 and one-half degrees north of the Equator of the Earth. |
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| a legal theory that a State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. |
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| was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century |
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| was the last strong pre–Civil War president, is noted for his foreign policy successes. He threatened war with Britain over the issue of which nation owned the Oregon Country, then backed away and split the ownership of the region with Britain |
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| American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent. |
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| a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory |
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| was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters |
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| was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts |
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| He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy |
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| The battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War |
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| laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South. |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, |
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| where General Lee surrendered his Confederate army to General Grant of the Union Army 9 April 1865,thus ending the American Civil War. |
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