Rebuilding the South
Official Pardon
What is amnesty?
President Johnson vetoed this proposed bill in 1866 that would have allowed the use of military courts to try people accused of violating African Americans's rights.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau Bill of 1866?
This secret society opposed civil rights and especially suffrage for African Americans and protested in very violent ways and methods.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the South.
A former slaveholder Democrat, who was a stubborn man, who was Vice President and sworn into office after the assassination of President Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
First they had to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States, and had to agree that slavery is illegal, once this percentage of voters did this, the state could form a new government.
What was the 10 Percent Plan?
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as the White Americans.
Landowners provided the land, tools for farming, and supplies, these people provided the labor to farm the land in the hopes that they would make enough profit to eventually own the land.
Who are sharecroppers?
Laws that greatly limited the Freedom of African Americans.
What were the Black Codes?
Congressmen who wanted the federal government to force changes in the South, wanted a harsher stance on making sure the African Americans have rights.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This agency was created by Congress in 1865 to provide relief to the freed people and poor people of the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
All people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens, guaranteed citizens the equal protection of the laws, cannot deny any person the right of life, liberty and property without due processs of law and others.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
A special tax that people had to pay in order to vote.
What is the poll tax?
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing to a public official.
What is impeachment?
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
Who were the leaders of the Radical Republicans?
Legal marital ceremonies, searches for missing relatives and loved ones, travelling to new places, new last names, same economic and political rights.
What was FREEDOM to newly freed African slaves?
Andrew Johnson speaking tour were a disaster because of these events, that resulted in the Republican party having more control in Congress.
What are the riots during the elections of 1866?
These were laws implemented in the South that forced segregation.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
He was the first African American Senator for the United States. He took over the Senate position that was previously held by the Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Who was Hiram Revels?
First appointed a temporary governor, next states were required to revise their constitution, voters elected state and federal representatives and declare that secession was illegal. Finally had to ratify the 13th Amendment and refuse to pay Confederate debts.
What are the steps for Johnson's Reconstruction Plans?
Because of their votes, Ulysseus Grant was elected President in the Election of 1868 when Andrew Johnson decided not to run again after his impeachment trial.
Who were the African Americans voters?
The Democrats in the Southern government who brought their party back to power.
Who were the Redeemers?
The forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places.
What is segregation?
Escaped from slavery and began a school for African Americans before the Civil War, and was the first African American who was elected as a US Senator for a full 6yr term.
Who was Blanche K. Bruce?