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23 Cards in this Set
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Ten percent plan |
Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government after 10% of them swore an oath of loyalty to the USA. |
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Wade-Davis bill |
Harsher alternative to the Ten Percent Plan. Required 50% of a seceding state's voters to take a loyalty oath before elections could be held for a constitutional convention. The bill also offered equality to former slaves. Threatened compromise, so Lincoln refused to sign it. |
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Radical republicans |
Wanted to confiscate plantations and give them to freed slaves. |
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Thaddeus Stevens |
A leader of the radical republicans. He said that former Confederate states should be viewed as conquered provinces. |
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Special field order 15 |
Set aside "forty acres and a mile" to freedmen |
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Andrew Johnson |
Passed the reconstruction acts, first president to be impeached |
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Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
Passed by Congress over Johnson's veto. Declared that everyone born in the USA was a citizen. |
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Reconstruction Act of 1867 |
Divided the South into 5 military districts. |
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13th amendment |
Abolished slavery |
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14th amendment |
Made freedmen citizens |
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15th amendment |
Gave black men the right to vote |
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Edwin Stanton |
Implemented Congressional Reconstruction. Was secretary of war, but was temporarily suspended. |
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Presidential reconstruction |
Johnson believed that reconstruction was solely his responsibility. He was very lax and opposed giving freedmen rights |
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Tenure of Office Act |
Forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent. Was to prevent Johnson from removing radical republicans. It saved Edwin Stanton and got Johnson impeached. |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Used by planters to keep former slaves from leaving or unionizing. |
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Carpetbaggers |
Northerners who moved South. Many were former Union soldiers |
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Scalawags |
Kinda rich southern farmers and merchants. Tried to regain political influence through the Republican party. Wanted modernization and to pay off war debt |
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Union league |
Activism group for former slaves |
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KKK act of 1871 |
Cracking down on the KKK. Temporarily broke its power. |
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Crop lien system |
Merchants and planters granted loans and farming supplies to people in exchange the year's cotton crop. Caused expansion of cotton |
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Impact of railroads |
Railroad companies sold land to settlers to finance construction. Steel railroads made traveling safer. Gave work to Chinese and Irish immigrants. |
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Liberal Republicans |
Formed as an opposition to Grant. Believed that reconstruction was complete, and dampened further reconstruction efforts. |
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Horace Greeley |
Leader of liberal republicans |
