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
