Founding Ideals
The promise that people should have the chance to attain their hopes and dreams
Opportunity
The Republican party
Systemic laws to deprive African Americans from exercising civil liberties.
Examples: Vagrancy laws, poll tax, grandfather clause, & literacy test
Black Codes
The number of military districts in former Confederate states during Reconstruction
5
A term used to describe Northerners who had moved into the South during Reconstruction for opportunity
Carpetbaggers
Basic conditions guaranteed to each person
Rights
This political party's ideology was small/limited government, claimed to be the "people's party".
No funding for infrastructure, education, or social change.
The Democratic party
Federal relief agency that provided African Americans with legal advice, housing, welfare, food, and secured job contracts
Freedmen's Bureau
Passed by Congress in 1867, restricted the ability of the President from removing certain members of office without senate approval
Tenure of Office Act
A term used to insult White Southerners who supported Republicans and their policies
Scalawags
The freedom to act or think without being limited by unnecessary force
Liberty
The Reconstruction plan that wanted a swift/easy "restoration" of Southern states that favored whites.
Offered pardons to wealthy planters and no protection to African Americans.
Presidential Reconstruction
Ratified on Feb. 3rd 1870
States could no longer prevent people from voting on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
15th Amendment
Famous Civil War general that ran & won the presidency in 1868
Ulysses S. Grant
The only former Confederate state that re-entered the Union before the military districts
Tennessee
The status of having the same opportunities, rights, and privileges as others
Equality
This political party's ideology was big business & big government. Advocating for intervention in the economy, social change, and funding infrastructure.
The Republican party
Agricultural system that placed African Americans in a form of perpetual debt.
Workers did not own the land, tools, equipment, or the animals. Paid a portion of the harvest to the owner.
Sharecropping
Three laws passed between 1870-1871 that offered further protection of African Americans, banned the KKK, and suspended habeas corpus
The Enforcement Acts
The man that laid groundwork for African Americans pursuing higher education and founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
A form of government that places the power in the hands of the people
Democracy
This plan for Reconstruction aimed to transform & punish the South. It divided former Confederate sates into 5 military districts.
Congressional Reconstruction
Schools that have historically served African Americans and other people color due to segregation & discrimination
Most were built after the Civil War
Historically Black College & Universities
HBCU's
The informal deal the effectively ended Reconstruction, pulled the military out of the South, and granted political control of the states back to Democrats.
The Compromise of 1877
The militia group/domestic terrorist group responsible for capturing 25 African Americans and murdering 6
Hamburg Massacre
The Red Shirts