Chapter 17 - StevenBarbour
... e. scandal and corruption at all levels of government. ____ 19. Which of the following is not true of black political activity during Reconstruction? a. Most black voters were illiterate ex-slaves. b. More than 50 percent of high state and federal offices were held by blacks. c. Prominent black lead ...
... e. scandal and corruption at all levels of government. ____ 19. Which of the following is not true of black political activity during Reconstruction? a. Most black voters were illiterate ex-slaves. b. More than 50 percent of high state and federal offices were held by blacks. c. Prominent black lead ...
Slide 1
... The process the federal government used to re admit the Confederate states back into the Union. ...
... The process the federal government used to re admit the Confederate states back into the Union. ...
Chapter 16 - Study guide sharecroppers
... Civil Rights Act of 1866 - outlawed black codes Most freedmen were uneducated and poor 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant's presidency was laced with corruption 1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes 19th President, which led to the end of Reconstruction Grandfather clause ensured that only white men co ...
... Civil Rights Act of 1866 - outlawed black codes Most freedmen were uneducated and poor 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant's presidency was laced with corruption 1876 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes 19th President, which led to the end of Reconstruction Grandfather clause ensured that only white men co ...
first black US senator from
... when the number of men who had taken a loyalty oath equaled one tenth of the number of voters in the 1860 presidential election. New state constitutions had to ban slavery ...
... when the number of men who had taken a loyalty oath equaled one tenth of the number of voters in the 1860 presidential election. New state constitutions had to ban slavery ...
Reconstruction
... Put the South under military rule Ordered states to create new constitutions All states had to allow black males to vote Required southern states to ratify 14th Amendment and to guarantee equal rights to all citizens ...
... Put the South under military rule Ordered states to create new constitutions All states had to allow black males to vote Required southern states to ratify 14th Amendment and to guarantee equal rights to all citizens ...
American Pageant 16th edition Vocabulary Words and Definitions
... Reconstruction-Era African American organization that worked to educate Southern blacks about civic life, built black schools and churches, and represented African American interests before government and employers. It also campaigned on behalf of Republican candidates and recruited local militias t ...
... Reconstruction-Era African American organization that worked to educate Southern blacks about civic life, built black schools and churches, and represented African American interests before government and employers. It also campaigned on behalf of Republican candidates and recruited local militias t ...
Reconstruction
... South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power block). ...
... South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power block). ...
Reconstruction 1. Lincoln`s plan 2. Congressional
... South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power block). ...
... South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power block). ...
() Document - Etiwanda E
... Gave full citizenship and equal protection to all people born in the United States ...
... Gave full citizenship and equal protection to all people born in the United States ...
Redeemers
In United States history, the Redeemers were a white political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War. Redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the conservative, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party, who pursued a policy of Redemption, seeking to oust the Radical Republican coalition of freedmen, ""carpetbaggers"", and ""scalawags"". They generally were led by the rich landowners, businessmen and professionals, and dominated Southern politics in most areas from the 1870s to 1910.During Reconstruction, the South was under occupation by federal forces and Southern state governments were dominated by Republicans. Republicans nationally pressed for the granting of political rights to the newly freed slaves as the key to their becoming full citizens. The Thirteenth Amendment (banning slavery), Fourteenth Amendment (guaranteeing the civil rights of former slaves and ensuring equal protection of the laws), and Fifteenth Amendment (prohibiting the denial of the right to vote on grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude) enshrined such political rights in the Constitution.Numerous educated blacks moved to the South to work for Reconstruction, and some blacks attained positions of political power under these conditions. However, the Reconstruction governments were unpopular with many white Southerners, who were not willing to accept defeat and continued to try to prevent black political activity by any means. While the elite planter class often supported insurgencies, violence against freedmen and other Republicans was often carried out by other whites; insurgency took the form of the secret Ku Klux Klan in the first years after the war.In the 1870s, secret paramilitary organizations, such as the White League in Louisiana and Red Shirts in Mississippi and North Carolina undermined the opposition. These paramilitary bands used violence and threats to undermine the Republican vote. By the presidential election of 1876, only three Southern states – Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida – were ""unredeemed"", or not yet taken over by white Democrats. The disputed Presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes (the Republican governor of Ohio) and Samuel J. Tilden (the Democratic governor of New York) was allegedly resolved by the Compromise of 1877, also known as the Corrupt Bargain. In this compromise, it was claimed, Hayes became President in exchange for numerous favors to the South, one of which was the removal of Federal troops from the remaining ""unredeemed"" Southern states; this was however a policy Hayes had endorsed during his campaign. With the removal of these forces, Reconstruction came to an end.