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| When Was the Reconstruction? |
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| What was the compact theory? |
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| The states not the people created the national government. |
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| What was the contract theory? |
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| The people, not the states, created the national government. |
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| What were some questions brought about by reconstruction? |
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1. How would the south be rebuilt?
2. How would the blacks fare as free men and women?
3. How would southern states be brought back into the union? (confederate leaders?)
3. Would the southern states, the president, or the congress direct the process of reconstruction? ( Each would have different ideas) |
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| What was the antebellum south? |
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| The south before the civil war. |
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| How was the antebellum south. |
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| Poor, and slaves were on the verge of revolt, despite most people thinking of it with big orchards and houses etc. The civil war gave life to an old south that never existed. |
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| What was the south not conscious of? |
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Crimes they had commited.
(Remained defiant...its your government not ours) |
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| What was the Freedman's Bureau |
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(March 3, 1864)
Their Greatest success was education (taught 200,000 blacks to read)
1. Provide food, clothing, etc to white refugees and freedmen
2. Autherized to distribute 40 acres of land to black settlers.
1. The Virtually distributed no land.
2. They collaborated with white farmers and signed contracts for blacks to work for former masters. |
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| What plan did Lincoln favor? |
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| The 10% plan. He thought the south never left the union. The 10# plan called for 10% of voters to sign an oath of allegiance to the union. |
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| What were the blacks codes? |
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| Laws put into place to regulate affairs of emancipated african americans and to force labor contracts on pittance wages ( to ensure labor supply). Freedom and marriages were legally recognized, but African americans could not vote, rent or lease land, or be idle. |
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| What was the Wade Davis Bill? |
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1. It reguired 50% of voters to take an oath of allegiance.
2. Slavery was banned.
3. Confederate leaders were disenfranchised. |
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| What did Abraham Lincoln do in response to the Wade Davis bill? |
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| He pocket vetoed it. Radical Republicans were outraged. |
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| Who were the radical republicans led by? |
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| Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens |
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| What did the radical republicans want? |
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Blacks to be citizens with all rights and privilges enforced by the federal government.
SHowed the differences between the president and congress. |
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| What was the fourteenth amendment? |
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The fourteenth amendment defines citizen rights for all americans.
1. Citizenship for all people that were born in America or naturalized.
2.All citizens guaranteed equal protection and due process.
3. Violations would lose congressional representation. |
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How did the southern satates react to the 14th amendment?
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1. They refused to ratify it.
2. They wanted to split the former confederate states into five military zones.
SOuthern states had to pass the fourteenth amendment to be admitted into the union. |
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| Who was the first African american congressman? |
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| Hiram Revels in 1870 (previously occupied by Jefferson Davis) |
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| What were the republican worried about? |
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| Power in the national government because the south would have 12 more votes in congress and twelve more electoral votes. |
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| What did congress institute? |
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| A white republican southerner. |
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| WHo were the two candidates in the election of 1876? |
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| Samuel Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes |
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| What were the terms of the compromise of 1876? |
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1. The republican hayes would be president
2. withdraw troops from the south.
3. Federal legislation would spur industialization in the south
4. Democrats would be in patronage positions in the south.
5. A democrat would be appointed to the cabinet.
Reconstruction was finally over. |
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| What did the African Americans in the south call the compromise of 1877? |
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| What was the Civil Rights Act of 1875 |
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Laws to prohibit slavery.
Court declared it did not mean states coulld not violate civil rights only federal. |
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| What were the Jim Crow Laws? |
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| The Jim Crow Laws were laws to seperat blacks from whites. Plessy vs. Ferguson upheld that African- Americans were seperate but equal. |
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| What were the civil war amendments? |
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13. Slavery was illegal- 1865
14. Civil rights protection 1868
15. Right to vote for all adult male citizens. 1870 |
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| He was born in Landau, Germany, and cam e to America to be a cartoonist (political). |
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