Modern American History

13th Amendment

Neither slavery nor involentary servituide shall exist within the U.S

14th Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the U.S are citizens of the U.S

15th Amendment

The right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied

Radical Republicans

Congressional republicans who wanted to send union troops to the south to protect the rights of free black people.

10% plan

10% of each southern state votes were required to pledge loyalty to u.s. and support emancipation b efore being re admitted.

Wade-Davis Bill

Says that 50% of voters in southern states must take oath of allegiance to the U.S.

Andrew Johnson

• Took office after Lincolns assassination

• was impeached

• called for state conventions to repeal secession

Scalawag

A southerner who supported the union

Carpetbagger

Northerner who moved to the south during reconstruction in order to make money

freedmens Bureau

Helped former enslaved people with school, Jobs, and housing

Ku Klux Klan

Former confederate soliders who terrorized black people across the south

Sharecropping

Similar to old plantation system because freed blacks ended up working plantions again for very little

Ulysses S. Grant

• elected U.S. president in 1868

• adovacted for the rights of free slaves

Robert E. Lee

Urged southeners to reconcile with the union

June 19th 1865

• emancipation proclamation was 2 years old

• 13th admenmant had already been written

• confedarate army had already surrendered

• union soilders arrived in terms and freed the last remaining 250,000 black people

Corrupt Bargain

• election boards fixed the resatles of the 1876 election so that republican hayes won

compromise of 1877

• All union troops were pulled out of the south

• demorcrats

• marked the end of reconstruction

Jim crow

an era in which white suprenacists took power across the south, segregation because the norm and southern states found ways to strip free black peoples rights.