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14th Amendment -
President?
Ulysses S. Grant
TERM 2
14th Amendment -
When?
DEFINITION 2
1868, ratified in 1870.
TERM 3
14th Amendment -
Significance?
DEFINITION 3
Pro's:
Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in
words similar to those of the of the Civil Rights Act of
Con's:
Did not extend towomen'ssuffrageor grant African
Americans the right to vote.
TERM 4
Ku Klux Klan - Who where
they?
DEFINITION 4
Secret society in the South.
Held political power during reconstruction
TERM 5
Ku Klux Klan - What did they
do?
DEFINITION 5
Reign of terror against black and white republicans.
Ku Klux Klan - When were they big?
1866, ended in 1872
TERM 7
Ku Klux Klan - Where did they originate?
DEFINITION 7
Pulaski, Tennessee
TERM 8
Ku Klux Klan - What is their Significance?
DEFINITION 8
Prevent blacks from voting and destroying organizations of
the Republican Party.
TERM 9
Liberal Republicans - Who where
they?
DEFINITION 9
Republicans alienated by Grant during his presidency by
corruption of his administration.
TERM 10
Liberal Republicans - What did they
do?
DEFINITION 10
Formed Liberal Republican Party
Sharecropping - What was it?
Initially arose as a compromise as a blacks desire for land
and a planters desire for labor discipline
Former slaves could live on the land and farm it, giving
the owner the crops while getting paid.
TERM 17
Sharecropping -
When?
DEFINITION 17
Reconstruction
TERM 18
Sharecropping - What was the Significance?
DEFINITION 18
Dominated the Cotton South and much of tobacco areas.
Because of no land redistribution, this happened
TERM 19
Black Office Holders - What happend?
DEFINITION 19
2000 African-Americans held public offices during
Reconstruction.
TERM 20
Black Office Holders - Significance?
DEFINITION 20
14 elected to the House, and 2 to the Senate.
Radical Republicans - Who?
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
TERM 22
Radical Republicans - What did they want?
DEFINITION 22
They wanted the rebels not to be in the charge. Fully
embraced expanded powers of federal government.
TERM 23
Radical Republicans - Where were they from?
DEFINITION 23
Republican North
TERM 24
Radical Republicans - What was their
Significance?
DEFINITION 24
They wanted black people to vote, and to radical for most
people in Congress.
TERM 25
Black Codes - Who started them?
DEFINITION 25
Southern Governments
Freedmens Bureau - What was their
Significance?
Achievements: education and healthcare.
To big for its time, its task was daunting and had fewer
than 1000 agents.
3000 schools teaching more than 150,000 kids
TERM 32
15th Amendment - Who was
president?
DEFINITION 32
Ulysses S. Grant
TERM 33
15th Amendment - What did it
do?
DEFINITION 33
Granted citizenship to all natural born people
Prohibited federal and state governments from denying
citizens the right to vote because of race.
TERM 34
15th Amendment -
When?
DEFINITION 34
Ratified in 1870
TERM 35
15th Amendment - What was the
Significance?
DEFINITION 35
Blacks and other minorities the right to vote, did not extend
to womens suffrage.
Redeemers - Who were they?
White Democrats-planters and businessmen
TERM 37
Redeemers - What did they
do?
DEFINITION 37
claimed to redeem the white south from corruption,
misgovernment, and northern black control
TERM 38
Feminists - Who were the big names?
DEFINITION 38
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
TERM 39
Feminists - What did they
do?
DEFINITION 39
a group of women that opposed the 15th amendment
because it was based on race, not gender.
TERM 40
Feminists - When did they do it?
DEFINITION 40
Civil Rights Bill of 1866 - What did it
say?
A bill proposed to modify Johnsons policy, sought to overturn
the Black Codes
TERM 47
Civil Rights Bill of 1866 - What was the
Significance?
DEFINITION 47
After Johnson vetoed the Bill, congress passed it and it
expanded the life of the Freedmans Bureau
TERM 48
Special Field Order 15 - Who lead it?
DEFINITION 48
William Tecumseh Sherman-commander in the Army
TERM 49
Special Field Order 15 - What was it?
DEFINITION 49
Took over 400,000 acres of land along the Atlantic Coast of
South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
TERM 50
Special Field Order 15 -
When?
DEFINITION 50
Special Field Order 15 - What was the
Significance?
The land was divided, and settled 1800 freed slave families
and other blacks living in the area.
TERM 52
Enforcement Acts - What were they?
DEFINITION 52
Criminal codes that protected the blacks right to vote, hold
office, to serve in the jury, and receive equal protection of
laws.
TERM 53
Enforcement Acts -
When?
DEFINITION 53
TERM 54
Enforcement Acts - What was the
Significance?
DEFINITION 54
These laws said that if the states failed to enforce these
laws the federal government had the right to intervene.
Targeted groups like the KKK
