Reconstruction - KIS
... After the Civil War (18611865) ended, what should have been the responsibility of the U.S. government? ...
... After the Civil War (18611865) ended, what should have been the responsibility of the U.S. government? ...
Chapter 6 PPT - Biloxi Public Schools
... • Republican candidate – Rutherford B. Hayes • Neither candidate won a majority. Some electoral votes were contested. • Commission was formed to pick a winner. • Southern Democrats used a filibuster (continuous speechmaking to delay action) to slow the ...
... • Republican candidate – Rutherford B. Hayes • Neither candidate won a majority. Some electoral votes were contested. • Commission was formed to pick a winner. • Southern Democrats used a filibuster (continuous speechmaking to delay action) to slow the ...
AA in Reconstruction Power Point
... vote ONLY if they could pass a test that required them to know specific information about the government. ...
... vote ONLY if they could pass a test that required them to know specific information about the government. ...
Civil War Vocabulary Words
... A tax that had to be paid every time a person voted. Poll taxes were used after the Civil War to prevent free blacks, who often could not afford to pay them, from voting. ...
... A tax that had to be paid every time a person voted. Poll taxes were used after the Civil War to prevent free blacks, who often could not afford to pay them, from voting. ...
Chapter 22 - Greenwood County School District 52
... of life, liberty or property without due process of law. (not ratified until 1868) Republicans gained a 2/3’s majority in both houses in1866 mid-term congressional elections ...
... of life, liberty or property without due process of law. (not ratified until 1868) Republicans gained a 2/3’s majority in both houses in1866 mid-term congressional elections ...
Model for Tuesday`s homework
... a. 13th Amendment: banned slavery in the United States. This could mean that millions of former slaves now had the chance to own land, go to school, reunite with their families and live as free people. b. Legislators: the people who make the laws in a legislative body like Congress or the state asse ...
... a. 13th Amendment: banned slavery in the United States. This could mean that millions of former slaves now had the chance to own land, go to school, reunite with their families and live as free people. b. Legislators: the people who make the laws in a legislative body like Congress or the state asse ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Birdville Independent School District
... 1. On what terms should the defeated Confederacy be reunited with the Union? 2. Who should establish these terms, Congress or the President? 3. What should be the place of the former slaves in the political life of the South? ...
... 1. On what terms should the defeated Confederacy be reunited with the Union? 2. Who should establish these terms, Congress or the President? 3. What should be the place of the former slaves in the political life of the South? ...
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 ...
Reconstruction (1865
... act that authorized the military to enroll eligible black voters and begin the process of constitution making. ...
... act that authorized the military to enroll eligible black voters and begin the process of constitution making. ...
European History Lecture 4
... which they took to politics surprised their former masters, who had expected docility and incompetence. Almost unanimously supporting the Republican party, the party of abolition and enfranchisement, the freedmen elected governments that launched statewide education systems, encouraged railroads, pa ...
... which they took to politics surprised their former masters, who had expected docility and incompetence. Almost unanimously supporting the Republican party, the party of abolition and enfranchisement, the freedmen elected governments that launched statewide education systems, encouraged railroads, pa ...
Chapter 16 - Study guide sharecroppers
... Wade-Davis Bill - states were allowed back into the Union when the majority of voters signed a loyalty oath. (more than 50%) Lincoln's assassination gave up hopes for a lenient plan for Reconstruction, which was to quickly restore the Union Civil Rights Act of 1866 - outlawed black codes Most freedm ...
... Wade-Davis Bill - states were allowed back into the Union when the majority of voters signed a loyalty oath. (more than 50%) Lincoln's assassination gave up hopes for a lenient plan for Reconstruction, which was to quickly restore the Union Civil Rights Act of 1866 - outlawed black codes Most freedm ...
Results of the Civil War Page 12
... blacks from voting Poll taxes Grandfather clause literacy tests ...
... blacks from voting Poll taxes Grandfather clause literacy tests ...
Reconstruction - OCPS TeacherPress
... – To check reading ability; blacks got harder test than whites and failed ...
... – To check reading ability; blacks got harder test than whites and failed ...
Reconstruction and the Changing South
... White Southern Republicans (scalawags) Northerners: some hope to get rich off the South, Some just fell in love with the South ...
... White Southern Republicans (scalawags) Northerners: some hope to get rich off the South, Some just fell in love with the South ...
Chapter 17 - StevenBarbour
... c. mutual understanding between North and South, Democrats and Republicans, whites and blacks. d. renewal of civil war. 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 illi ...
... c. mutual understanding between North and South, Democrats and Republicans, whites and blacks. d. renewal of civil war. 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 illi ...
Print › US History - Unit 3B | Quizlet
... the means of excluding African Americans from voting in Southern elections by testing their ability to read ...
... the means of excluding African Americans from voting in Southern elections by testing their ability to read ...
American Pageant 16th edition Vocabulary Words and Definitions
... Wade-Davis Bill Passed by Congressional Republicans in response to Abraham Lincoln’s “10 percent plan,” it required that 50 percent of a state’s voters pledge allegiance to the Union, and set stronger safeguards for emancipation. Reflected divisions between Congress and the President, and between ra ...
... Wade-Davis Bill Passed by Congressional Republicans in response to Abraham Lincoln’s “10 percent plan,” it required that 50 percent of a state’s voters pledge allegiance to the Union, and set stronger safeguards for emancipation. Reflected divisions between Congress and the President, and between ra ...
Race and Voting in the Segregated South
... Race and Voting in the Segregated South from: http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/race-and-voting-in-the-segregated-south Voting During Reconstruction After the Civil War, Congress acted to prevent Southerners from re-establishing white supremacy. In 1867, the Radical Republicans in Congress ...
... Race and Voting in the Segregated South from: http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/race-and-voting-in-the-segregated-south Voting During Reconstruction After the Civil War, Congress acted to prevent Southerners from re-establishing white supremacy. In 1867, the Radical Republicans in Congress ...
Reconstruction and Segregation
... came to the South to ensure federal laws were followed. Southerners saw them as profiting from their misfortunes after the war. Finally, the Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of Southerners against the Republican Party. Their goals included white supremacy and the political defeat of the Re ...
... came to the South to ensure federal laws were followed. Southerners saw them as profiting from their misfortunes after the war. Finally, the Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of Southerners against the Republican Party. Their goals included white supremacy and the political defeat of the Re ...
first black US senator from
... allowed an employer to pay the fine of an unemployed black in exchange for that person’s labor...sound familiar? ...
... allowed an employer to pay the fine of an unemployed black in exchange for that person’s labor...sound familiar? ...
Reconstruction
... Republican led congress refused to recognize southern delegates condemned the Lincoln-Johnson plan. Argued only congress had right to allow a state into the union. South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power ...
... Republican led congress refused to recognize southern delegates condemned the Lincoln-Johnson plan. Argued only congress had right to allow a state into the union. South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power ...
Reconstruction 1. Lincoln`s plan 2. Congressional
... Republican led congress refused to recognize southern delegates condemned the Lincoln-Johnson plan. Argued only congress had right to allow a state into the union. South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power ...
... Republican led congress refused to recognize southern delegates condemned the Lincoln-Johnson plan. Argued only congress had right to allow a state into the union. South needed to be severely punished Democrats in South were not allowing blacks to vote (and hence denying Republicans an obvious power ...
Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era
Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era deals with the efforts made by Southern states of the former Confederacy at the turn of the 20th century in the United States to prevent their black citizens from registering to vote and voting. Their actions defied the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which was intended to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War.Considerable violence and fraud had accompanied elections during Reconstruction, as the white Democrats used paramilitary groups from the 1870s to suppress black Republican voting and turn Republicans out of office. After regaining control of the state legislatures, Democrats were alarmed by a late 19th-century alliance between Republicans and Populists that cost them some elections. In North Carolina's Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (long called a race riot by whites), white Democrats conducted a coup d'etat of city government, the only one in United States history. They overturned a duly elected biracial government and widely attacked the black community, destroying lives and property.Ultimately, white Democrats added to previous efforts and achieved widespread disenfranchisement by law: from 1890 to 1908, Southern state legislatures passed new constitutions, constitutional amendments, and laws that made voter registration and voting more difficult. This turn of events achieved the intended result of disenfranchising most of the black citizens, as well as many poor whites in the South.The Republican Party was nearly eliminated in the region for decades, until the late 20th century, when a wholesale party realignment took place. Southern Democrats controlled the southern states based on white supremacy. As Congressional apportionment was based on the total population, the Southern white Democrats, the Southern bloc, had tremendous legislative power for decades. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment could have reduced Congressional representation for states that denied suffrage on racial grounds, but this provision was not enforced, as opponents of the Southern bloc could not overcome their political power.In 1912, Woodrow Wilson gained an Electoral College bonus as a result of this black (Republican) disenfranchisement; he was elected as the first southern President since 1856. He was re-elected in 1916, in a much closer presidential contest. During his first term, Wilson instituted overt racial segregation throughout federal government workplaces and established racial discrimination in hiring. During World War I, American military forces were segregated, with black soldiers poorly trained and equipped; they were often sent on suicide missions. Disenfranchisement had other far-reaching effects in Congress, where the Democratic South gained ""about 25 extra seats in Congress for each decade between 1903 and 1953."" Also, the Democratic dominance in the South meant that southern Senators and Representatives were entrenched in Congress, gaining seniority privileges and control of chairmanships of important committees, as well as leadership of the national Democratic Party. During the Great Depression, legislation establishing numerous national social programs were passed without the representation of African Americans, leading to gaps in program coverage.In addition, because black Southerners were not listed on local voter rolls, they were automatically excluded from serving jury duty in local courts.Racial segregation in the U.S. military was ended by Executive Order of President Harry S. Truman in 1948, after World War II. Disenfranchisement did not end until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, which included authority for the federal government to monitor voter registration practices and elections and enforce constitutional voting rights.