history ts

i fricking hate history

13th amendment

• abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime

• made in 1865, apart of reconstruction amendments

• aiming to establish equality after the Civil War

• establishing the groundwork for civil rights movements and laws

14th amendment

• guarantees citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former enslaved people (birthright citizenship)

• made in 1868, - shaped civil rights and constitutional law

• influencing a wide range of legal battles and social issues. 

15th amendment

• ensures that anyone, regardless of their race, has the right to vote

• made in 1870

• guaranteed African American men the right to vote, a significant step towards racial equality

why didnt the 15 amendment work?

many Southern states found ways to circumvent it, using poll taxes, literacy tests, and voter intimidation to disenfranchise African Americans

Freedmen’s Bureau

• federal agency that aided formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the South during Reconstruction

• established primary and secondary schools and provided relief for blacks

• divided up confiscated land and gave it to former slaves => important

Black Codes

legal codes where they replaced the word slave with black person. shows how unwilling white governments were to ensure the rights of new free citizens

Radical Republicans

advocated for a more aggressive approach to Reconstruction, pushing for harsh punishment of Confederate states and civil rights for African Americans

Compromise of 1877

Southern Democrats would acknowledge Hayes as president, but only on the understanding that Republicans would meet five demands. The five key points of the compromise were:

• The removal of military from the Confederacy.

• needed at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes' cabinet. 

• construction of another transcontinental railroad through the South and Texas.

• laws to help industrialize the South and restore its economy after Reconstruction.

• The right to deal with African American citizens in southern states without northern interference. oh gyatt…

Sharecropping

black workers were bound to the land and in exchange for maintaining and growing crops they would get a place to live and supplies, owners often took a percentage of the sales - kinda like slavery. poor whites were victims too. 

Ku Klux Klan

terrorist organization-- targeting all republicans to keep them from voting — white supremacy - did not accept blacks as equals - KKK said white race was superior to the black - spread the message through violence and intimidation (lynching) places black codes

Scalawags

derogatory terms used by Southern Democrats to criticize white Republicans. "Scalawag" referred to Southern-born Republicans —implying that these individuals were corrupt, greedy, and disloyal

Wounded Knee Massacre

Exodusters

Dawes Act

Homestead Act

Bimetallism

Bonanza Farm

Soddy

Homesteader

Scabs

Skyscrapers

Trusts

Andrew Carnegie

Industrial Boom

Vertical Integration

John D. Rockefeller

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Angel Island

Chinese Exclusion Act

Americanization Movement

Tenement

Graft