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An act of forgiveness for past offenses usually said by political officers
What does amnesty mean?
The veto of a bill if a president fails to sign it within the 10 days
What does pocket veto mean?
To bring an accusation against a public official
What does impeach mean?
The process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War
What does reconstruction mean?
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans
What are carpetbaggers?
Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction of the South
What are scalawags?
Getting money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician
What does graft mean?
A person who gets provided a house and land to give the landowner a small portion of cash or some of the crops
What is a tenant farmer?
A person who is provided multiple things and equipment but needs to give the landowner a fair share of the crops to pay off debt
What is a sharecropped?
He wanted to reunite the Union so he made a lenient plan that said any southern state with at least 10% of the voters making a pledge to be loyal to the U.S can rejoin the Union
What is Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
He pledged to return all property that was taken from Southern landowners and in order to re-enter the Union, they had to revoke the ordinance of secession and ratify the 13th Amendment
What is Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
To help pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 14th Amendment, and the 15th Amendment as well as the Military Reconstruction Act
What is the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction Plan?
All slavery is prohibited in the U.S.
What does the 13th Amendment state?
All people born in the U.S. should be treated equally
What does the 14th Amendment state?
All men are allowed to vote
What does the 15th Amendment state?
An act that divided the former Confederacy (except Tennessee) into 5 military districts
What is the Military Reconstruction act?
The Democrats agreed to give Hayes all votes if all federal troops in the south would withdraw
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Allowed African Americans to own property and be treated equally in court
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
A group that committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment of and enfranchisement of the freed blacks
Who were the Radical Republicans?
An organization that was lead by Bureau who was tasked with feeding and clothing refugees in the South
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
A group of people that would go around burning down houses, killing people, and raping women
Who were the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
He made the 10% plan to reunite the Union
How did Abraham Lincoln impact the Reconstruction?
He made states ratify the 13th amendment and revoke the ordinance of secession
How did Andrew Johnson impact the Reconstruction?
His presidency ended in corruption but he ended the KKK or banned it
How did Ulysses S. Grant impact the Reconstruction?
He made the Compromise of 1877
How did Rutherford B. Hayes impact the Reconstruction?
He lost to Rutherford B. Hayes during the 1876 election
How did Samuel Tilden impact the Reconstruction?
He was Grant's secretary of war and took place in grafts or bribes
How did William Belknap impact the Reconstruction?
Laws that restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
What were black codes?
A rapid expansion of the American securities market in respond to the capital demands of the war effort and railway development
What was the Panic of 1873?
They had received the ability to vote because of the 15th amendment made by the Radical Republicans that was passed by Congress
How did African Americans participate in politics during Reconstruction?
It helped former slaves find work on plantations, negotiated labor contracts, and established courts to deal with grievances between workers and planters
How did the Freedmen's Bureau help formerly enslaved African Americans?
One allowed black people to go to them and help schooling for kids while the other did not do much
What role did churches and schools play in the lives of African Americans during and after Reconstruction
It started the bribing, made the country want a weaker president, had the economic recession unhappy with Republicans, and the Democrats had taken control
How did political and economic issues during the Grant administration weaken Reconstruction?
They had sharecropping and tenant farmers
How did the South's postwar economy force many African Americans into difficult circumstances?
People saw it differently (rise of Jim Crow laws and failure to fully integrate African Americans) (preserving the Union and abolishing slavery)
Was Reconstruction a success of failure?
One had planned on helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the 14th Amendment, and the 15th Amendment as well as the Military Reconstruction Act. The other wanted to reunite the Union and made the 10% loyalty plan
How did the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction plan differ from President Lincoln's plan?