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Radical Republicans proposed the Fourteenth Amendment. Many northerners agreed with the need for stronger measures and in the 1866 election, supported the Republicans who won majorities in both houses of Congress.
How did Radical Republicans win control of Congress?
In the Old South southerner's were arrogant and self-assured, The North assumed a war over slavery would quickly end the issue and everyone would move on.
How did the "New South" differ from the antebellum South?
It became more balanced. Southerners built industry to process their own raw materials.
How did the southern economy change after Reconstruction?
The South began building textile mills and tobacco refineries.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: After Reconstruction ended, African Americans in the South began losing their rights.
they wanted to help the freedmen. Some wanted to profit from the rebuilding of the South
Many northerners came South after the war. Why (causes)?
The South tapped into its mineral resources.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: Industries flourished in the New South.
President Hayes removed federal troops from the South.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: Reconstruction came to an end in the 1870s.
The Amnesty Act restored the right to vote to the white southerners.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: Reconstruction came to an end in the 1870s.
corruption in Washington, D.C. made the Republicans unpopular.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: Reconstruction came to an end in the 1870s.
Freedmen had few opportunities.
Most freedom worked the land and remained poor. Why (causes)?
to pass black codes that denied African Americans many of their rights
Southern legislatures' response to the Thirteenth Amendment was
. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Paraphrase the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, and provide the date that it was ratified on
Supreme Court decision that segregation was legal if facilities were equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ulysses S. Grant
What Civil War hero became President in 1868?
As the President watched the show, Booth entered the State Box and fired at Lincoln's head. Booth managed to flee despite breaking bones in his left leg after jumping from the balcony in his escape. Booth fled away from Washington into southern Maryland where he received medical assistance for his leg from Dr. Mudd.
What did John Wilkes Booth do on April 14, 1865 just five days after the Civil War had ended?
After the war, he favored dividing up Southern plantations among the freed slaves, embracing William Tecumseh Sherman's "forty acres and a mule."
What did Thaddeus Stevens (a Radical Republican leader) want to do to Southern plantations after the Civil War?
They wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power
What did the Military Reconstruction Acts call for?
Radical Republicans wanted to enact a sweeping transformation of southern social and economic life, permanently ending the old planter class system, and favored granting freed slaves full-fledged citizenship including voting rights. They wanted to impeach President Johnson they where very close.
What did the Radical Republicans attempt to do to President Johnson? How close did they come to doing so?
Thus always to tyrants .He might of said that at the time because when he jumped off he broke his leg so maybe he was in pain or was happy that he killed Lincoln.
What does the phrase "sic simper tyrannis" mean? Why might Booth say this at this time?
David Herald surrendered when union soldiers had trapped them in the bar. Booth was shot dead in the back of the neck..
What happened to Booth and his friend David Herold when Union soldiers had them trapped in a barn?
Some of his men began to backtrack. They agreed to kidnapping Lincoln but not murder.
What happened when Booth informed his men about the assassination plot?
The second part of the Amendment provided for a reduction of a state's representatives if suffrage was denied. Republicans, in essence, offered the South a choice — accept black enfranchisement or lose congressional representation.
What right did Charles Sumner (a Radical Republican leader) believe that all Africans Americans needed to have if they were to obtain equality?
Many held office in the South's new governments; a few won election to Congress.
What role did freedmen play in Reconstruction governments?
Booth took his men at went to the theater where Lincoln was and they where going to shoot him
What was Booth's plan regarding the assassination of Lincoln?
if your father or grandfather could vote before 1867, you did not have to take the literacy test.
grandfather clause
test to prove ability to read. Designed to ban illiterate freedmen from voting.
literacy test
Carpetbagger
northerner who went to the South after the war.
tax required in order to vote. Established to prevent poor freedmen from voting.
poll tax
Some white southern Democrats resisted Reconstruction and change
some southerners formed a terrorist group called the Ku Klux Klan. Why (causes)?
Scalwag
southern Democrat's derogatory nickname for southern Republican.
Republican majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
the 1866 elections resulted in
they honored African American rights and they knew that African Americans would vote Republican
they honored African American rights and they knew that African Americans would vote Republican Republicans supported the Fifteenth Amendment because
What made both decide to kill Lincoln was that he bitter about the Confederacy losing the war, decided to modify and kidnap plot and kill Lincoln
. How did Booth's kidnapping plan fall through? What made Booth decide to kill Lincoln?
They were criminal codes that protected African-Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws.
. What were the Enforcement Acts meant to do, and what powers did they give to the President?
laws that severely limited rights of freedmen in the South.
.Black codes are
separation by race. Designed to ban freedmen from equal access to public facilitie
.segregation
Some African Americans were elected to public office including Congress.
African Americans in the South went to the polls in large numbers. What happened (effect)?
After Lincoln was shot they moved him to a different location the doctors decided that he was dead and they couldn't help him.
After Lincoln was shot, where did they move him? What did the doctors decide?
They needed to raise money to rebuild the South and they needed to curb government corruption
Describe two economic problems faced by Reconstruction governments in the South.
Poll taxes and literacy tests were used to prevent African Americans from voting. Jim Crow laws forced racial segregation in schools and other public facilities.
Describe two ways in which African Americans in the South lost political rights.
He jumped off and broke his leg screaming "sic simper tyrannis".
Describe what happened when President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head.
he tried to limit the effect of the Radical Reconstruction program
President Johnson was impeached because
restructuring of southern society by the Republican Congress
Radical Reconstruction is
to break the power of the wealthy southern plantation owners and to ensure freedmen could exercise their right to vote.
Radical Republicans' two chief goals were
Southern governments raised income taxes to pay for improvements
Reconstruction governments spent a lot of money on railroads, school systems and telegraph lines. What happened (effect)?
becausethey believed that Johnson was allowing the South to discriminate and use violence against freedmen
Republican were outraged at the black codes and President Johnson
Post African Americans could not pass the literacy test or pay the poll tax.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: After Reconstruction ended, African Americans in the South began losing their rights.
Segregation became legal in the South.
Select the best supporting detail for the main idea. Main Idea: After Reconstruction ended, African Americans in the South began losing their rights.
sharecopper
farmer who rented land and was given seed, fertilizer and tools in return for a share of the crop at harvest time.
all persons born in the United States were citizens and no state could deprive a person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
The Fourteenth Amendment stated that
former Confederate states ratify the 14th Amendment, write new state constitutions, allow African Americans to vote and it established five military districts in the South.
The Reconstruction Act required that
It originally started as a kidnapping plot after Union General Ulysses S Grant had suspended the exchange of prisoners during the Civil War. Booth wanted to kidnap the Lincoln and bring him to the south. He wanted to hold Lincoln hostage until the prisoners exchange was a restart it.The plan was to attack and kidnap Lincoln when he was returning home from the Campbell bar military hospital after seeing a show entitled still waters run deep
What was John Wilkes Booth's original plan for President Abraham Lincoln?
Sharecropping is a type of farming in which families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end of each year. It was bad for newly freed black southers because seeking economic independence and autonomy.
What was sharecropping, and was it good or bad for newly freed black Southerners (why)?
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era
What was the Compromise of 1877, and how did it affect Reconstruction?
The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.
What was the Reconstruction?
Their goal was to regain the power that white people had had before the Civil War.
What was the goal of groups like the Ku Klux Klan?
The Freedmen's Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s.
What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?
These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations.
What were Black Codes, and what did the Radical Republicans do in response to their creation?
South viewed as opportunists looking to exploit and profit from the region's misfortunes-supported the Republican Party, and would play a central role in shaping new southern governments during Reconstruction.
What were carpetbaggers, and how did people in the south view them?
scalawag referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
What were scalawags?
The Radical Republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites. They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War. Leaders like Pennsylvania REPRESENTATIVE THADDEUS STEVENS and Massachusetts SENATOR CHARLES SUMNER vigorously opposed Andrew Johnson's lenient policies.
Who were the Radical Republicans, and what did they believe?
Republican leaders accused Johnson of failing to enforce Reconstruction measures
Why did Congress impeach President Johnson?
Because they had no land, money or credit, sharecroppers farmed the land of large landowners for a share of the crop.
Why did many farmers become sharecroppers?
Many northerners wanted to let the South run its own affairs. Corruption in Grant's administration hurt Republicans.
Why did the Radical Republicans lose their power?
The codes were meant to keep freedmen from gaining political and economic power.
Why did the black codes anger Republicans in Congress?
With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the President of the United States
With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the President of the United StatesWho was Lincoln's Vice President that took over as President after his assassination, and how did he get along with the Radical Republicans? Why do you think Lincoln chose a Southern Democrat as his Vice President?
