Lincoln won without a single southern state vote, south succedds cause they believed "if a single republican president gets elected, we leave"
Election of 1860
Lee surrenders to grant
N outlast South
Last battle of the civil war
Surrender at appomattox
Prohibited A.A. from renting land or borrowing money to buy land
Placed freedmen into a form of semi-slavery where they cant testify against a white man
What was the black codes
Equal accomendations in public places, banned courts frome xcluding AA from juries
What was teh civil right act of 1875
Basically slavery back in south but a different name
"rent land" from white ppl to farm in exchange for labor
sharecropping
1.consitutional amendment to permanently protect slavery in state where it already exist
2./Extend missouri comprmise to CA
vetoed by lincoln
Anti war northners who wanted an end to war by removing lincoln from power
Copperheads
Aided poor whites and ex slaves after war and gave shelter and food
What was its chief accomplishment
What was the Freedmen's bureau
Chief accomplishment is education
All African Americans were us citiznes
nullfied black codes
14th amendment ratified (why?)
What was the civil rights act of 1866
amnesty for ex-confederates and can vote again
Impact:southerns can not vote back control of congress, by end of the rescontruction southern congress is funny controlled by ex-confederates
Amnesty act
Confederate States and border states
Deep South:South Carolina, Flordia, Georgia, Texaxs, Mississpi, Louisiana, Alabama.
Upper South:Virgina, Tenesse, North carolina, arkansas
Border States:maryland, delaware, kentucky, missouri
First draft, men between 20-45 can be drafted
Conscription act
Proclaimation of amnesty
Presidental pardon of Southerners
Oath of alliengece to Union
Accpted the emancipation
10% of voters
What was lincoln's 10% plan
Congress passed this law that johnson broke so he can get impeached
Tenure of Office Act: president cant replace cabinet without congress approval
Ex-confederate general turned funny cloak man is what organizaton and attacked which people
What bill is made to stop them
Who was the Ku Klux Klan
What was the KKK act of 1871, authorized prosecution andmilitary force to supress consirpices and secret governments
Confederate advantages and cons and plans to win the war
Advantages: Defensive war
Fighting for a cause
Experienced generals(stonewall jackson and Robert E. Lee
Cotton diplomacy
Cons: No Navy and badly equiped
No railroads
No sofiscated banks
Win plan:Out last the north's will to get a stalemate for succession
Pray for Britain/France/any other europe nation to help them for their cotton (failed cause india)
How did both sides finance the civil war
North:borrowed money from banks,
Morrill Tariffs
Taxes increase and greenbacks
South:cotton diplomacy
Disenfranchised high ranking confederates and wealthy property(aka pardon)
New state consitutions required minimun conditions to join
Only need to ratify 13th amendment
All ex-confederate states join by 1865
What was Johnson's 10% plan
Military reconstructment in south
Divide 11 states into 5 military districts
To earn statehood you must staify 14th amendment also
Also what did Johnsoon do in his mid-term
Reconstruction act of 1867
Mid term election 1866
Debt, inflation, speculation and overinestment in railroad
Grant supports hard currency
What was the act to try to solve this
Panic of 1873
Specie redemption act 1875
North's plan to win the war, pros, cons
advantages, Better industry and transportation
Better military, navy and established government,
2x population of confederates and better banks
Cons:No leadership until grant
No real purpose aside from stopping succession
Win strat:
Winfield Scott's anaconda plan, divide confederatcy into 2 by the mississippi river and force a 2 front war, then invade Richmond Virgina with 100k men
Results of the civil war
700k ppl died
Northern invention and sherman and grant's new tactics
Slavery is banned
Lincoln assassinated
First draft from both sides
Every state accpet, no slavery, no sucession, no CSA members in office
Lincoln vetoed
What was Wade-Daris Bill
All 3 scandals Grant's Administration was in
1.credit mobilier scandal, railroad cost 60mil company took 95 mil, ceo took 44 mil
2.Boss Tweed: NY poltiican who took 200 mil in tax money
3. Whiskey ring: grant's high ranking officals pockets tax from whiskey tax
1.Immediately end federal support for republicans and blacks in south
2.Support hte building of southern transitational rail road
3.Federal military withdraws from south
Compromise of 1873