Final test for US History

• Former Confederate states must ratify the 13th Amendment which legally banned slavery 

• Granted full amnesty to Southerners

• High ranking officials excluded

Lincoln Reconstruction Plan (10% Plan)

• Abolish State governments in South

• Divide South in 5 Military districts

• Strict Requirements for States to rejoin

Radical Republican reconstruction plan

legally banned slavery

13th amendment

• African-Americans Citizenship

• Equal Protection

• Due Process of law

14th amendment

Secured the right to vote (race, color, former status)

15th amendment

gains of ex-slave other than amendments during reconstruction

education and independent institution (church)

• Northern Congressman who held a majority in the two houses

• Led by Thaddeus Stevens (PA)

Radical Republican

Johnson Vetoed Civil Rights Act

opposition of Johnson against 14th amendment

Reasons for the dispute between President Johnson and Radical Republicans

• House impeaches

• Senate fails to convict by one vote

• Johnson escapes conviction but is a lame duck

impeachment of Johnson

Support ex slaves and poor whites-food, clothing, and education

Teachers and preachers (Reconstruction)

Maintain law and order in the South

Protect ex slaves from violence and terror from KKK

Military

Northern businessman who exploited southerners for profit

“Carpetbaggers”

White Southerners who cooperated with Northerners and supported ex-slaves

Seen as traitors by other Southerners

“Scalawags”

providing immediate assistance to newly freed African Americans and impoverished whites in the South

Freedmen’s Bureau

1. Rise of the KKK and the use of violence

2. Earliest members were ex-confederates

3. Intimidation tactics especially to discourage voting

4. Congress passes the Force Acts to curb the violence

Reasons why White Southerners returned to power in state governments

1. House and Senate members agree (Hayes win presidency and Republican give up reconstruction)

2. State power in the south is restored to white southerners

3. “Home Rule” implemented

Compromise of 1877

• Jim Crow Laws established segregated society in the South including separate public facilities

• Voting restrictions limit suffrage for African-Americans

  • Poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests

Home Rule

Segregation system was upheld

14th Amendment was weakened (Amnesty Act allowed ex confederates to hold office)

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

More government support that helps agriculture

Populist party

• Federally supported farm loans

• Increase money in circulation

• Graduated income tax

• Public ownership of railroads

Populist party agenda

addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.

Sherman Antitrust Act

Navitism

Hostility from native-born Americans

Prohibited all Chinese immigration except students, teachers, merchants and government officials

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Limited no. of immigrants from a country to 2 % of those nationals living in US in 1890

• Targeted immigration from S/E Europe and Asia

Immigration Restriction Act of 1921

Type of workers: all inclusives (skills levels, women, minorities)

tatics: Cooperation/Negotiation

role of fed gov: child labor, abolish trusts

Knight of Labor

typer of workers: Skilled workers (men)

tatics: walkouts/strikes

role of fed gov: wages, safety, hourse

AFL

Anarchists and Socialists influences

Haymarket affairs

steel industry

Homestead Strike

Owner also owned worker homes - Pullman Town

Pullman Strike

his domestic policy agenda that aimed to promote fairness and equality for all American (gov involve more in economy)

 T. Roosevelt’s Square Deal Agenda

Those against suffrage raised concerns about the impact on traditional gender roles, the potential for political corruption, and the idea that women already exerted influence through other means. 

Arguments for and against Suffrage

Sustained and Diverse Activism

Shifting Social Norms and Public Opinion

 two main reasons for the success of the women’s suffrage movement

journalists and writers exposed corruption and social injustices in business and government.

muckrakers

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell:

examples and books written by muckrakers