Chapter 12 US History Study Guide

Laws designed to keep freedmen in slave-like conditions

initial goal was to play practical jokes on former slaves. a secret organization of White Protestant Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence against Black people, Jewish people, and other minority groups.

(June 1866) - citizenship to all naturally born in US (cemented Civil Rights Bill into Constitution)

(March 1867) - divided the South into five military zones

(March 1870) - voting rights to all male citizens regardless of race

scoundrel & traitor to the South (James Longstreet is the most famous)

northern Republicans who came South to take part in Reconstruction

labor system where the freedmen worked for a share of the crop rather than wages

set heavy penalties for those interfering with Reconstruction (KKK) by enforcing the 15th Amendment

African American who took the Senate seat held by Jefferson Davis

1. Forbade them from owning property 2. Not allowed to sit on a jury 3. Not allowed to own guns 4. Had curfews (once the sun went down)

1. To keep slaves from getting political rights 2. To drive slaves out of the South (saw them as a threat) 3. To keep Republicans in the North from gaining political power in the South

Advantages: 1. Gave freedmen a place to work 2. Gave landowners the labor force needed Disadvantages: 1. Most sharecroppers never got out of debt 2. Kept the South tied to an agricultural society.

(January 1st, 1865) - abolished slavery

Established by Congress on March 3, 1865 Provided food and medical care, Resettlement of freed blacks, Managed abandoned and confiscated property (850,000 acres given to free blacks), Established schools (over 1,000 built, training schools, several black colleges)

Lincoln offered forgiveness to Southern citizens who pledge loyalty to the Union/support for the Emancipation

a state could be reinstated into the Union when 10% of its legal voters took the oath of allegiance to the U.S.

required majority of state's white citizens to pledge loyalty before elections could be held

a wing of the Republican Party organized around an uncompromising opposition to slavery before and during the Civil War and a vigorous campaign to secure rights for freed slaves during Reconstruction.

granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as criminal or civil punishment.

a United States federal law enacted to break a cycle of debt during the Reconstruction following the American Civil War. Prior to this act, blacks and whites alike were having trouble buying land.

an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management; while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management.

sought to overthrow the Radical Republican coalition of Freedmen, carpetbaggers and Scalawags. They were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the conservative, pro-business wing of the Democratic Party.

Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) allowed to become president, Republicans agree to withdraw from the South

intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. The law was enacted on March 3, 1867, over the veto of President Andrew Johnson.

most famous Radical Republican. Created that party along with Charles Sumner

assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater on April 15, 1865

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865 at Ford's Theater

Took over as president after Lincoln's assassination.

most famous of the Scalawags (traitors to the South)

creator of the Ku Klux Klan

Problems in the South: 1.The land was in ruins 2.Confederate money was worthless 3.Banks were runied 4.No law or authority 5.The souths transportation system was in complete disorder. 6.Loss of enslaved workers,worth two billion dollars. 7.Government at all levels, had dissapeared

13th: abolished slavery 14th: citizenship to all naturally born in US 15th: voting rights to all male citizens regardless of race

1. Created first public school system in the South 2. Built many hospitals and orphanages 3. eliminated property requirements for voting 4. built thousands of miles of new railroads 5. rebuilt many destroyed buildings and bridges

withheld invitation to Ford's Theater to accompany Lincoln and his wife at the play

former slave who served as a close advisor to President Johnson during Reconstruction in the South

Lost to Rutherford B. Hayes in the disputed election of 1876

Won disputed election in 1876

a famous grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan

1. Compromise of 1877 took all Republicans and Union soldiers out of the South, ending Reconstruction. 2. Resentment from Southerners towards Northern Republicans and/or Carpetbaggers 3. The president and Congress couldn't mediate on a plan for Reconstruction, both sides argued and issued their own plans 4. Groups like the KKK were made to derail/undermine Reconstruction.