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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)
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