Influences from the North
Named after the type of suitcase that they carried, these Northerners came to the South during Reconstruction for several reasons. Some came to help the South rebuild after the Civil War and some came to take advantage of a bad situation and tried to get rich quick or gain power or influence for themselves.`
What are carpetbaggers?
The separation of people based on their race.
What is segregation?
The amendment that made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This economy was devastated after the Civil War
What is the South?
Became President after Abraham Lincoln's death.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This derogatory term was used to describe Southerners who cooperated with Northern agents or African Americans after the Civil War.
What are scalawags?
Laws that limited the rights of freed African Americans in the South.
What are Black Codes?
This president was the first to be impeached (to charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office)
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This economy was mainly based on industry and factories
What is the North?
This person was the main leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
After the Civil War, the South was divided into ____________________ and occupied by Northern soldiers to make sure that Blacks could exercise their new rights and freedoms.
What is 5 military districts?
A system of farming that allowed freed men to rent and work a landowner's property in exchange for a portion of their crop. This system usually trapped the tenant farmer in a cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
The amendment that made all people born in the United States citizens of the United States (except Native Americans).
What is the 14th amendment?
This group pushed for strong federal protection of African American rights and harsher terms for Southern readmission.
Who were Radical Republicans?
After his election in 1877, Northern troops left the South and Reconstruction officially ended.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
An agency established by the federal government to provide food, clothing, education, medical help, legal help and employment help for African Americans and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Laws that legally separated or segregated blacks and whites. These laws created separate facilities such as restrooms, schools, hospitals, water fountains, etc. for each race.
What are "Jim Crow" laws?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote (women, both black and white would have to wait another 62 years!).
What is the 15th Amendment?
These federal laws of the early 1870s attempted to curb Klan violence by allowing federal prosecution and protecting voting rights.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
This president supported Radical Reconstruction and enforced the Enforcement Acts?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
A plan for reconstruction that pardoned Confederate leaders and allowed them back into state governments and vetoed laws designed to protect equal rights for African Americans
What is Johnson's Plan?
A secret group of white supremacists who terrorized southern Blacks in order to prevent them from exercising their rights (especially their right to vote).
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This Supreme Court decision upheld the legality of segregation in the South. This decision coined the phrase "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1864 / 1865 bill required a majority (not just 10%) of a Southern state's voters to take a loyalty oath — it was pocket-vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Southern white politicians who worked to "redeem" state governments from Republican control and restore prewar social order were called this.
Who were Southern Redeemers?