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| Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical Republicans |
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| A small group of politicians who supported black suffrage. ________and ______ headed the group. They clamored for the abolition os slavery and a demanding reconstruction policy. |
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| Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan |
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Stated that a minority of voters equal to atleast 10% of those who had cast ballots in the election of 1860 would have to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and accept emancipation. This minority could then create a state government. Confederate goverment officials, army and navy officers, as well as those officers who had resigned from Congres of from U.S. comission sin 1861 were excluded from taking the oath. Also, blacks. |
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| Legislation passed by Southern states after the Civil War in an attempt to control the labor, movements and activities of African Americans. |
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A federal agency that assisted former slaves. Main achievement was in education. |
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A bill that made blacks U.S. citizens with the same rights as other citizens and authorized federal intervention in the states to ensure black rights in court. |
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Provided taht each former Confederate state would be ruled by a military govenor. After atleast half the elibible voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union, delegates could be elected to a state convention that would repeal secession and abolish slavery. To qualify as a voter or delegate, a southerner would have to take a second "ironclad" oath, swearing that he had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy. Theplan did not provide for black suffrage but would delay southern readmission almost indefinately. -- Proposed by the Radical Republicans |
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| The first major law ever passed over a presidential veto |
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| The Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
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Declared in its first clause that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S were citizens of the nation and citizens of the state and no state could abridge their rights without due process of law or deny them equal protection of the law. Guaranteed that if a state denied suffrage to any of its male citizens, its representation in Congress would be proportionally reduced. It also threatened to deprive southern states of some legislature if black men were denied the vote. Disqualified from state and national office all prewar officeholders -- civil and military, state and federal -- who had supported the Confederacy unless congress removed their disqualifications by a 2/3 vote. |
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| Prohibited the president from removing any federal official without the senate's consent. Was to prevent President Johnson from obstructing reconstruction. |
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| Reconstruction Act of 1864 |
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Enfranchised blacks and disenfranced ex-confederates. Invalidated the state governments formed under the Lincoln and Johnson plans. Divided the other ten former Confederate states into five military districs each run by a Union General. Voters -- all black men and white men not disqualified by the 14th Amendment could elect delegates to a state convention that would write a new state constitution granting black suffrage. |
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| Provides that governments in the United States may not prevent a citizen from voting based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery). |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony |
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| Women's rights advocates who began to promote women's suffrage in 1866 when the issue of black suffrage arose and subsequently assailed the proposed 15th amendment for exluding women. By the end of the 1860s, activists had formed two competing suffrogist organizations. |
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| Predominantly poor and ignorant whites who sought to profit from Republican rule; and hordes of uneducatedfreedmen, who were ready prey for Republican Manipulators. |
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| Passed in honor of Charles Sumner. Desegregated transportation facilities, juries, and public accomodations. |
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| those from the north who had allegedly come south seeking wealth and power with little possessions. |
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| A system used for farmers to get credit. After the crop was harvested, they would use it to pay back their loans. |
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| landowners subdivided large plantations into forms of thirty to fifty acres, which they rented to freedmen under annual leasers for a share of the crop, usually half. |
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| Democratic boss who led Tammy Hall, and led a ring that had looted the city treasury and collected an estimated 200 million in kickbacks and payoffs. |
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| A fraudulent construction company created to skim off the profits of the Union Pacific railroad. Using Government funds granted to the railroad, the Union Pacific directors awarded padded construction contracts to the __________, of which they were the directors. |
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