vocab
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Did Florida support marriages between white people and African Americans?
no they did not.
how many plans are there?
4
who is John Wilkes Booth?
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham lincoln.
when was Ida B. Wells born?
july 16th 1862
what does impeach mean?
process by which a legaslative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct.
what was the black code regaurding education.
schools for white children and schools for African Americans must be conducted seperatley
what were the plans names?
lincolns plan, wade-davis bill, Andrew johnson's plan, and radical republicans plan.
what is the definition of amnesty?
A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense.
what type of transport was Ida B Wells using?
she was using a train
amendment to abolish slavery
could African Americans and white people play pool and billboards together?
no they couldnt.
what was Lincolns main reason for his plan?
restoring the union.
what are radical republicans?
a member of the republican party committed to emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment of the freed blacks
how much money was she rewarded from suing Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad?
$500
what does carpetbagger mean?
northerners moving to the south after the civil war to seek political powers
what was the black codes regaurding mental hospitals?
No white people and African Americans were allowed to be put together.
did wade davis support abraham lincoln's plan?
no he was opposed of it.
what is the wade Davis bill?
required that 50% of a states white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union.
did Ida B. Wells win or loose the case at Tennessee Supreme Court?
she lost
what is the civil rights act of 1866?
declared all people born in the united states to be citizens
What was the black code regaurding prisons?
white people and African Americans have seperate living spots.
what three things were the postwar radical republicans motivated by?
revenge, concern for the freedmen, and political concerns
what is the freedman's bureau?
established in 1865 by congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the south in the aftermath of the civil war.
After this event what did Ida B. Wells become?
a journalist and owner of the Memphis newspaper Free Speech