Lincoln/ Radical Republicans
What was Lincoln's hope for America after the end of the Civil War?
Reconstruction & Reconciliation
Who has President Johnson declared "war" against?
Radical Republicans
What was American's 1st Relief Organization that created schools, educated free blacks, and offered a transition from slavery to freedom?
Freeman's Bureau
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Gave African Americans freedom from slavery
Due to a lack of assistance and equality, what happened to most free slaves?
Many remained on their previous plantations; others starved to death.
What political party wanted to give equal rights to freed men?
Radical Republicans
Although Johnson says he opposes slavery, what does he refuse to do?
Give free African Americans racial equality
What happens July 30, 1866 at the Mechanics Institute in Louisiana during the Freedom March for Black Suffrage?
Freedom marchers clash with white supremacists, shots fired = New Orleans Massacre
Which Amendment gave African Americans equality under the law & "due process"?
14th Amendment
____ ____ were another form of slavery that regulated the economic and daily life of free African American.
Black Codes
What do the Radical Republicans want most?
Give African Americans the right to vote.
Johnson & the Democrats want to abolish slavery and dismantle the elite "planter class" but do not ____.
want to provide equality to freed African Americans.
What does it mean to "swallow the dog" and what did they have to denounce?
swear an oath to the Unites States & denounce slavery
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Gave ALL men the right to vote
What was the Radical Republican's economic goal for Reconstruction?
During Reconstruction, Republican policy in the South attempted to transform the region into a free-labor economy like the North.
How many African American men fought in the Civil War?
roughly 180,000
Under Johnson's Administration, election results in the South gave seats of power to ______________.
ex-confederates
Who disrupted the local elections in Tennessee in 1868?
Nathan Bedford Forest (KKK)
Which state was the first to give African Americans the right to vote?
Tennessee
Who is the "Robinhood" of the Lumbee People, who attacked confederates in NC?
Henry Berry Lowry
In 1867, Radical Republicans pass a law that Johnson vetoed, that abolished and re-established _________?
All state governments
In 1868, President Johnson was the 1st U.S. President to _________?
be impeached
What report does Ulysses S. Grant deliver to Congress in 1871 and what does he request to stop it?
report = terror in the south; requests Federal Troops
1868 voter registration polls showed there were _____ more African American voters than white voters.
roughly 130,000
What is Special Field Order No. 15, given by General William T. Sherman in 1865?
a wartime order to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres.