Chapter 3- reviewed/mastered

Chapter 3- Reconstruction and Its Effects

(3.1) Reconstruction

Rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

10%

Of the South must agree to become part of the Union

Too Easy

Radical Republicans involving South joining the Union

Wade Davis Bill

Changed requirement to majority of South should agree to join the Union, Congress in charge of Reconstruction

Majority

Of the South must agree to become apart of the Union

Booth

Assassinated President Lincoln

Black Codes

Laws meant to keep black people under white control

Keep Southern Structure

The Black Codes

Won’t let them sit

Radical Republicans

14th Amendment

Citizenship

Reconstruction Act

South agreed to 13th/14th Amendment and Northern military control over South

Military Control

North over South

15th Amendment

Right to Vote (AA Men)

Johnson

Racist, Tried to block reconstruction act

Tenure of Office Act

President can’t fire anyone without Senate approval, Johnson fired Secretary of War Stanton

One vote

Prevented Johnson’s impeachment

(3.2) Readmitted

The South

Republicans

AA

Raising Taxes

No jobs

Scalawags

Small republican white farmers against plantations

Carpetbaggers

Northern businessmen/politicians who moved down south to make money and buy land

Schools and Colleges

AA/Former Slaves

Voting and Conventions

AA/Former Slaves, demand same rights as whites

Churches and Ministers

AA/Former Slaves

Levels

First AA man in the Senate

Sharecropping

Landowners give few acres of land to workers

Tenant Farming

Former slaves rented land from landowners for cash

Debt Peonage

Workers in debt to their landlords could not leave

New South

Young people wanted South to be like North

(3.3) Take away Right to Vote

Southern Democrats

Faced Voting/Economic Problems

AA

Southern Vote

White Democrats

Panic of 1873

North economy crashes

Lost Interest/Bad Shape

The North

Regained Power

Democrats in the South

Segregation

Next 100 years

Teachers and Community Leaders

Taught and encourages AA

Poll tax, Grandfather clause, Literacy test

Prevented AA from voting

Considered Inferior

AA Establishments

Jim Crow Laws

Kept control over AA, bypassed 13, 14, and 15th amendments

Amnesty Act

Confederate Soldiers can vote (Swamps AA vote)