APUSH Reconstruction era.

in 1868, president johnson was impeached because

violated the tenure office act, and dismissed Edwin Stanton which caused political opposition to radical republicans.

black sharecropping

was a very common occupation of former slaves

After reconstruction, political powers under southern redeemers

was constricted and conservative.

the tenure of office

was designed to limit johnsons authority

At the conclusion of president Andrew Johnson's impeachement trial,

was spared conviction by one vote

describe the details and major battles of the Civil War

Antietam was deadliest, a union victory which caused emanciation proclomation. Gettysburg was a turning point of the war and Sherman's march to the sea which showed total war tactics.

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

Entered the white house with no political experience.

In the final days of the civil war, Abraham Lincoln

Insisted that the confederacy had no legal right to exist.

Describe lincon's and johnson's lenient reconstruction plans clashed with the radical republicans' reconstruction methods and objectives.

Lincoln wanted 10% loyalty oath, Johnson wanted 0, johnson pardoned disenfranchised confederates. Congress wanted 50% loyalty oath, and all confederates disenfranchised.

Describe the various tensions within and between regions came together to cause the civil war.

North was industrialized, south was agrarian based. North wanted to contain slavery, south and north fought over free/slave state.

explain the details of the 3 important civil rights amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th) ratified by congress during the reconstruction.

The 13th amendment banned slavery, the 14th amendment gave citizenship to all US born citizens. the 15th amendment gave african american's the right to vote.

in the 1860's, black codes were

designed to give whites control of their freedom.

the wade-davis bill

disenfranchisement of confederate leaders.

The freedman's bureau

distributed food to millions of southern blacks

during reconstruction, the southern school system

eventually reached 40% of black children

the fourteenth amendment

gave citizenship to all people born in US

Jim Crow laws

imported a system of state supported segregation.

president lincolns "ten percent" plan of the south referred to

number of white voters required for state government

During reconstruction, most carpetbaggers were

northern white veterans who moved south.

as president andrew johnson

offered amnesty to southerners who pledged loyalty to the US

in the 1890's, pressure in the south to restrict black voting rights came from

poor white farmers, wealthy southerner's , advocates of jim crow.

advocates of the south

promoted southern industry

The supreme court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson(1896) that

radical segregation was legal if whites and blacks were equal

in 1867, congressional plans for reconstruction

required new states to grant voting rights to blacks.

during reconstruction, per capita income of southerners

rose for blacks, and declined for whites

at the end of the civil war, the number of slaves in the united states was

six million

During reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to

southern white republicans

the 15th amendment delt with the issue of

suffrage