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•Johnson begins Reconstrucion (rapid/lenient)
•Confederate leaders regain power
•White gov't pass codes against blacks
•Congress bans S. reps
•13 Amendment Ratified |
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•Congress passes CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
•Congress renews FREEDMAN'S BUREAU (Johnson vetoes in vain)
•Congress approves 14th Amendment, S. states reject
•Ex parte Milligan - SC enforces influence
•Republicans - 2/3 majority |
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•Congress passes RECONSTRUCTION ACTS
•Congress passes TENURE OF OFFICE ACT
•Constitutional conventions in S. states |
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| Johnson's Secretary of State, organized purchase of Alaska |
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•House impeaches Johnson, Senate acquits
•Most S. states get readmitted under Radical plan
•14th Amendment passed
•GRANT ELECTED president |
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| Congress approves 15th amendment, ratified in 1870 |
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| Congress passes 1st ENFORCEMENT ACT |
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| Congress passes KU KLUX KLAN ACT |
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•AMNESTY ACT frees remaining confederates from office holding restrictions
•Liberal Republicans oppose Grant
•GRANT REELECTED |
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•SLAUGHTER HOUSE cases limit power of 14th Amendment
•Panic of 1873 - Depression |
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•Grant vetoes increase in supply of paper money
•Democrats win majority in House |
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| •Congress passes weak Civil Rights act |
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•US v. Cruikshank and US v. Reese weaken 14th amendment
•Presidential election disputed |
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•Congress elects Hayes president
•Exodusters migrate to Kansas
•"Home Rule" returns to 3 remaining S. states not yet controlled by Democrats
•RECONSTRUCTION OVER |
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"Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction"...replace majority rule with "loyal rule"
10% swear loyalty oath, then readmittance
pardons for all except highest ranking confederates |
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1) majority of male citizens participating in gov't reconstruction
2) "iron-clad" oath required for office
3) all officers above leitenant not pardoned |
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abolished involuntary servitude
Congress has power to enforce this |
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Blacks rented land they worked...
proved disaster, monoply of control and ever-increasing debt |
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| white supremacist, looked down on blacks |
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•Called constitutional conventions, delegates drafted new constitutions,then state restored to union
•unpardoned whites not eligable
•did NOT hold plan - pardoned many |
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Compelled slaves to carry passes, observe curfew, live in housing of a landowner, not eligible for good work
legislatures did this by substituting "freedmen" for slaves, and defined status of freed men and women |
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| wanted to transform the south - democratize, black suffrage, land confiscation/redistribution |
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| wanted to transform the south - democratize, black suffrage, land confiscation/redistribution |
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ratified 1868
•citizenship for blacks
•life, liberty, property
•civil rights
•Confederate debt null/void
•confederate leaders - no officeholding |
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| National Union Convention |
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| Johnson's way of presenting his case for refusal of 14th amendment to North... criticized republicans in ranting style which reduced popularity |
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| Reconstruction Acts of 1867-1868 |
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1) S. states readmitted, Union Generals assumed command of 5 S. districts
2, 3, 4) provided for details of operation of voter registration boards, adoption of constitutions, and administration of good faith oaths for whites |
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| leader of the radical republicans |
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| Constitutional Crisis - Congress asserts more authority |
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1) set its own reconvention date
2) limited Johnson's power over army, requiring him to go thru Grant
3) Tenure of Office Act |
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| Gave Senate power to approve president's cabinet...designed to protect Secretary of War Stanton |
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| Secretary of War for Stanton, sympathized for Radicals |
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| Secretary of War for Stanton, sympathized for Radicals |
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| violation of Tenure of Office Act - attempt to remove Stanton |
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Ulusses S. Grant (R) vs. Horatio Seymour (D)
Grant acted as administrator of Reconstruction but not supporter...democrats refused Reconstruction |
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forbade states to deny the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous servitude
**did not gurantee right to vote (women, immigrantes) |
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forbade states to deny the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous servitude
**did not gurantee right to vote (women, immigrants) |
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| Black Voters/Emergence of S. Republican Party |
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| sizeable amount of blacks - brought south into line iwht progressive reforms |
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| S. white supremacists charged that the south had been turned over to blacks, and made propaganda |
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| Carpetbaggers and Scalawags |
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C = northern interlopers
S= southern sympathizers w/ republicans |
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terrorist organization - POLITICAL
wealthy and powerful white supremacists, S., helped bring back democratic majority |
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| Liberal Republican Revolt |
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| civil service reformers, foes of corruption, advocates of lower tarriff: distatste for fed intervention in S. |
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| electoral candidate for Democrat 1872 election |
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| Ulysses Grant as President |
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| made bad choices of war appts. - scandals, corruption |
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| (1875) - equal accomodations in public places for blacks...bill watered down and didn't help |
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5 yrs economic depression/contraction
class conflict => monetary issue
paper money vs. Civil War greenbacks |
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| military trials illegal when civil courts were open and functioning...REASSERTION OF SC AUTHORITY |
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one company got monopoly of livestock, rival butchers sued.
14th amednment - state citizenship and national citizenship DIFFERENT - limited amendment |
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| female attorney claimed right to practice law but restricted because F. claim rejected, further limiting 14th amendment power |
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| Democratic governor of NY, ran against Rutherford Hayes in election of 1876 |
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| (R) ran against Samuel Tilden in election of 1876, won despite dispute |
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Rutherford (R) vs. Tilden (D) -
disputed elecion... both parties claimed fraud by opponents
Congress elects 15-member electoral commision |
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| because of the betrayal of black rights, many migrated to Kansas and were labeled this, searching for the American Dream |
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