APUSH quiz Reconstruction

13th amendment

abolishes slavery in December 1865

who was the leading radical republican in the senate

Charles Sumner

radical republicans advocated...

women's suffrage, rights for labor unions, and civil rights for northern African Americans

Civil rights act of 1866

pronounced that all African Americans were us citizens

Andrew Johnsons Reconstruction policy

loss of right to vote and hold office for all former leaders of the confederacy and confederates with more than $20,000 in property

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction 1863

-full pardon granted to confederates who took an oath of alliance and accepted emancipation of slaves

-state government could be reestablished by the U.S. if 10% of voters took the loyalty oath

Wade-Davis bill

required 50% of voters in a state to take the oath to come back to the union

Freedmen's Bureau

welfare agency, provided food, shelter, and medical aid to blacks and whites after the war

14th amendment June 1866

-declared all people born in the U.S. were citizens

-obligated states to respect the rights on citizens, provide "equal protection of the laws"

-disqualified confederates from hold office

Tenure of Office Act

1866- prevented the president from removing federal official without senate approval

Purpose of Tenure of Office Act

protect the radical republicans in Johnson's cabinet like Edwin Stanton

The Election of 1868

Republican Ulysses S. Grant

15th Amendment

Prohibits voting discrimination based on race.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation

Who were scalawags?

White southerners who favored the North (Republicans).

Who were carpetbaggers?

Northerners who moved to the south after the war

African American senates in 1870

Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels

Who was elected as Mississippi senate in 1870

Hiram Revels

What is Patronage

giving jobs and government favors to supporters

Who was the first state to grant women full suffrage rights

Wyoming

Southern Conservatives

called redeemers

KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

founded by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest

Force Acts of 1870 and 1871

Laws designed to stamp out KKK terrorism in the South

Black codes

Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

Share Cropping

african americans and poor whites would work on a land owned by another in return for small pay or some crops

Election of 1876

Ended reconstruction because neither canidate had an electorial majority. Hayes was elected, and then ended reconstruction as he secretly promised