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Lost Cause
South decided North winning the war was only a temporary setback.
Freeman's Bureau
Created by congress- aided former slaves. Education, financial social. Lasted 7 years. Education was most successful.
Field Order No. 15
1865: William T. Sherman- set aside abandoned land to give in forty acre plots to former slaves. Abolished later that year by President Johnson.
Southern Homestead Act
Largely unsuccessful. Gave black people preferential access to land, but even if they had land, they didn't have the money to run it.
Black Codes
Laws passed to deny black's rights.
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Republican. Envisioned a south with no large plantations and few landless farmers.
14th Ammendment
prohibits states from violating civil rights: outlawed the black codes.
Congressional Reconstruction
Republican dominated congress controlled Reconstruction.
Johnson's Impeachment
He deliberately violated the Act that prohibited him from removing certain office holders. Escaped impeachment by one vote.
15th Ammendment
Guaranteed all American men of all races to vote.
scalawags
Southerners that took advantage of other southerners
carpetbaggers
Northerners that went to the south to take advantage of southerners.
Union Leagues
demanded universal suffrage
Tammany Hall and Corruption
William Tweed transformed it into a political machine. Robbed NYC of $100 mil.
Civil Rights Act 1875
Charles Sumner- bill passed watered down. Prohibited discrimination in public places. Overturned by Supreme Court in 1883
Compromise of 1877
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes install ed in the white house, and Gave Democrats control of all state government in the South.
Slaughterhouse cases
Supreme court ruled most citizenship rights lay understates, undoing any good the 14th Amendment had done.
United States v. Cruikshank
Enforcement Act only applied to violations of black rights, not individuals.
Solid South
Democratic Party rule. "New South Era"
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Ch 1-2 Vocab
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