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The end of Reconstruction
How reconstruction failed
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History
Undergraduate 3
12/18/2015

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New Orleans Riot (1866)
Definition

Blacks paraded outside building in Luisiana

Radical republicans were trying to get them the vote

White democrats attacked

Term
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Definition

Confed army general during war

 

1st Grand Wizard of the KKK after the war

Term
KKK
Definition

Wanted to overthrow repub state governments in South

 

Used violence against African American Leaders

 

Illegal to interfere w/ right to vote

 

Named terrorist org

 

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Klan Acts
Definition
right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection of laws
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Scalawags
Definition
Southern Whites who supported reconstruction and the republican party
Term
Carpetbaggers
Definition

Northerners who moved South after the civil war during reconstruction

Moved South for financial gains

Term
Lynhings in 1868
Definition
Killed over 1000 ppl
Term

Voting Poll Tax

 

Literacy/Civics tests

Definition
Restricted voting rights w/o interfering w/ right to vote
Term
Democratic Militias
Definition

Red Shirts

 

White League of Louisiana

 

Kept Blacks away from ballot box

Term
15th Amendment
Definition
Gave African Americans the right to vote
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Liz Cady Stanton
Definition

Against 15th Amendment

 

Why should African American men get the vote when white women still don't have it

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Ulysses S. Grant and Santo Domingo
Definition

Wanted to anex SD

 

Freedmen could go there

 

Doesn't fly w/ senate

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Compromise of 1877
Definition

Union forces had to pull out of South

 

Democratic control to South again

 

End of reconstruction

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Sharecropping
Definition

Black families could rent land

 

In exchange for a portion of their crop going to land-owner

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