HW - Chapter 15: Henretta

Civil Rights Act of 1866

The act allowing formerly enslaved people citizenship and rights of contract w/ ful access to courts

Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

The year and amendment stating all people in the US were citizens and allowed nat. rights

Reconstruction Act of 1867

The act dividing the South into 5 military districts commanded by a US General and only allowed Union reentry when freedmen were granted the vote and X powerful ex-Confederates vote

Fifteenth Amendment (1870)

The year and amendment that protected all male citizens' right to vote

- Congress required the 4 remaining federally-controlled states to ratify this amendment for reentry

Minor vs. Happersett (1875)

The lawsuit and year B/C suffrage advocate Minor of Missouri had her ballot denied by registar which violated 14th Amendment

- Ruling: Women are citizens but states can deny vote

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The act requiring "full and legal" access to jury service, transporation, and public accomodations for all races

Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company

The failing bank that worked w/ the Freedmen's Bureau/Union Party managing deposits by small Af. Am farmers and entrepeneurs

- Failed B/C bank directors had risky loans and speculative investments (June 1874)

June 1874

The month and year the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company failed B/C bank directors risky loans and speculative investments

Credit Mobilier

The sham corporation by the Union Pacific Railroad shareholders to secure gov. grants for profit

- Provided CM stocks as gifts to powerful Congress members as bribery

Enforcement Laws (1869-1871)

The group of laws and years implemented authorizing federal prosecution, military intervention, and martial law in response to the KKK

- X terrorist activities

Slaughter-House Cases (1873)

The name of the group of SC decisions/cases and starting year that undercut the 14th Amendment's Power

ex. US v. Cruikshank (1876)

US v. Cruikshank (1876)

The SC decision and year made after Af. Am farmers in Colefax, LA were murdered by an ex-Confederate democratic political coup

- Ruling: Voting rights = state matter unless violated by state itself

- X power over armed vigilantes in this coup

Civil Rights Cases (1883)

The SC decisions and year where X Civil Rights Act of 1875 and paved way for segregation

Thaddeus Stevens

The Radical Republican House leader from Pennsylvania

- Wanted freedmen political/economic rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The leader of the National Women's Suffrage Association and suffragette

Robert Smalls

He was an African American Congressmen in the South who worked his way up by buying property

Blanche K. Bruce

He was Mississippi's 2nd Black US Senator elected in 1874 during reconstruction

Nathan Bedford Forrest

The secessionist and white supremacist who founded the KKK

- Grand Wizard in 1866

- X Republican government B/C Democrat

Edwin M. Stanton

The suspended Secretary of War and radical republican that was replaced by Ulysses S. Grant

- His suspension led to the impeachment trial

Land Grants

The belief of Thaddius Stevens for a right to this B/C "secured" the economic security for freedmen

Black and White Republicans

These progressive laws/achievements resulted from the new state governments of these people:

1. Founding HBCU

2. Petersburg, VA free smallpox healthcare board

3. 1/2+ Black Mississippi/FL/SC children attended public school