History 311 Chapter 14

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When did the Civil War End

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April 1865

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Emancipation of Proclamation

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January 1, 1863

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What happenened when the federal forces seized the Sea Islands off of the coast of South Carolina in Nov 1861

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Vast cotton plantations but with no planters. Slaves associated their slavery with cotton crops and decided to plant what ever they wanted. Sweet potatoes and corn. The government auctioned off the land to northern investors and hired the blacks as cotton pickers.

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What happened on Davis Bend?

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Mississippi plantations owned by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Davis thought if he treated slaves humanly, it would be a model society. Ulysses S. Grant leased the land to the freedmen. By 1865 the freedmen established their own government and profited 160000 in cotton sales.

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What happened in the emancipation in Louisiana up to the mississippi vallet. 700,000 slaves

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Blacks were required to remain on their plantations working as laborers bound by 1 yr contracts.

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What did Lincoln issue in Dec 1963?

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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Ten Percent Plan that intended southern state governments which pardoned all southerners and confederate officials that pledged loyalty to the Union and support emancipation.

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Wade-Davis Bill

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1864 a reconstruction program designed to punish confederate leaders and destroy the souths slavery. no amnesty to people who held slaves

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Thirteenth Amendment

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jan 1865 abolishing slavery offering no compensation to former slave owners.

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What is the Freedmans Bureau?

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relief agency providing emergency servics, building schools, and managing confiscated lands.

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Forty Ancres and a mule

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1865 William T Sherman issued Field order 15 400,000 acres of abandoned land along with a mule would be rented out

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Andrew Johnson

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assummed presidency after Lincoln. he opposed succession. April 1865. he spoke of punishing ex confederste leaders for treason. did not want black equality.

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Black codes

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to limit the civil and economic rights of freedmen and create an exploitable workforce. One code had a vagrancy, any freedman who hit the road was arrested and fined

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Fourteenth Amendment

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the gaurantor of individual civil rights. All persons born or naturalized in the US (freedmen) civil rights. Equal protection of the laws where they lived and all states not allowing rights to men and freedmen would lose representation in congress.

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carpetbaggers

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a term suggesting they were penniless adventurers who came south with all their possesions in a cheap suitcase or carpetbag intent on enriching themselves at the expense of the southerners. Reality was they were skilled and middle class

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scalawag

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the republican party contained a number of white southerners. they were considered traitors to their region and race.

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The Fifteenth Ammendment

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Passed 1869 ratified in 1870. The right of citizens of the us shall not be denied or abridged by the us or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude

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White Terrorist Associations

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1866 Klu Klux Klan, White Camelia, White Brotherhood. Carpetbaggers and scalawags targetted in violence. Enforcement acts in 1970 enforced rights and arrested of klans men.

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Horace Greenly

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editor of the New York Tribune, once a champion for slave rights, challenged Grant to the presidency by campaigning that blacks were worthless and the whites needed to be restored to the south

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The Panic of 1873

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had a deep impact on reconstructions. Banks and credit had failed.

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Who are redeemers?

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A new political class. Saviors of the south. redemption to the confederacy and the restoration of white supremacy

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Civil rights act of 1875

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provide equal access in public facilities such as schools and allow blacks to serve on juries. largely ignored. 1883 the supreme court ruled it unconstitutional.

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Rutherford B Hayes vs. Samuel Hayes

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Mardch 2, 1977 by a vote of 8 to 7 the commission awarded all 20 disputed electoral votes to Hayes. Hayes became president.

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The Lost Cause

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After 1877 the south went to the redemeers and prewar south

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Sharecropping

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The southern farmers had to give up farms and rent because of falling prices.

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Jim Crow

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in the late 1870-1880's southern political leaders began to create a social and legal system of segregation. named after the derogatory black character minstrel show

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Reconstruction overview

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the era began with full promise, 1870 fourteenth and fifteenth ammendments. The "new south" mired mainly a small elite and left the rest in poverty, illiteracy snf inequality.