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Unit 7-Reconstruction and Jim Crow
... The new President Andrew Johnson was politically inept and personally contentious. His attempt to implement a moderate plan of Reconstruction, along the lines originally suggested by Lincoln, fell victim to Southern whites’ severe treatment of blacks and his own political blunders. Republicans impos ...
... The new President Andrew Johnson was politically inept and personally contentious. His attempt to implement a moderate plan of Reconstruction, along the lines originally suggested by Lincoln, fell victim to Southern whites’ severe treatment of blacks and his own political blunders. Republicans impos ...
RECONSTRUCTION ERA 1865-1877
... 2. INCREASED NUMBER OF WHITE SOUTHERN VOTERS 3. WANING NORTHERN INTEREST IN THE PROBLEMS OF THE BLACKS: A. GREW WEARY OF RECONSTRUCTION B. WANTED TO END SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TURMOIL C. REFORMERS TURNED INTERESTS TO OTHER CAUSES D. FELT SOUTHERNERS SHOULD WORK OUT THEIR OWN ...
... 2. INCREASED NUMBER OF WHITE SOUTHERN VOTERS 3. WANING NORTHERN INTEREST IN THE PROBLEMS OF THE BLACKS: A. GREW WEARY OF RECONSTRUCTION B. WANTED TO END SOCIAL AND POLITICAL TURMOIL C. REFORMERS TURNED INTERESTS TO OTHER CAUSES D. FELT SOUTHERNERS SHOULD WORK OUT THEIR OWN ...
Reconstruction (1865
... President Johnson’s Impeachment Johnson removed Stanton in February, 1868. Johnson replaced generals in the field who were more sympathetic to Radical Reconstruction. The House impeached him for trying to fire Stanton on February 24th before even drawing up the charges by a vote of 126 – 47! ...
... President Johnson’s Impeachment Johnson removed Stanton in February, 1868. Johnson replaced generals in the field who were more sympathetic to Radical Reconstruction. The House impeached him for trying to fire Stanton on February 24th before even drawing up the charges by a vote of 126 – 47! ...
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
... Leader, born in poverty, who became the champion of the white South against radical Reconstruction Secretary of state who arranged an unpopular but valuable land deal in 1867 Laws designed to stamp out Ku Klux Klan terrorism in the South Black senator from Mississippi, elected during Reconstruction ...
... Leader, born in poverty, who became the champion of the white South against radical Reconstruction Secretary of state who arranged an unpopular but valuable land deal in 1867 Laws designed to stamp out Ku Klux Klan terrorism in the South Black senator from Mississippi, elected during Reconstruction ...
Chapter 15 In the Wake of War
... withdrawal of paper money from the economy, since this made debts harder to repay. Although they had many reasons to unite, workers faced difficulties in building coalitions. A major problem was how employers divided the laboring classes by ethnicity, religion, and race. C. Political Corruption and ...
... withdrawal of paper money from the economy, since this made debts harder to repay. Although they had many reasons to unite, workers faced difficulties in building coalitions. A major problem was how employers divided the laboring classes by ethnicity, religion, and race. C. Political Corruption and ...
Reconstruction
... Voting Rights Other laws were passed to keep blacks from voting. One law said former slaves had to pay a tax to vote. It was called a poll tax. Another law was passed that said a person could only vote if their grandfather had voted. These laws were called the Grandfather Clause. ...
... Voting Rights Other laws were passed to keep blacks from voting. One law said former slaves had to pay a tax to vote. It was called a poll tax. Another law was passed that said a person could only vote if their grandfather had voted. These laws were called the Grandfather Clause. ...
Chapter 15 Exam
... A. the old aristocracy B. industrialists and merchants C. poor whites D. blacks E. white Democrats ...
... A. the old aristocracy B. industrialists and merchants C. poor whites D. blacks E. white Democrats ...
Slide 1
... During Reconstruction • Robert Smalls of South Carolina took command of vessel and slave crew, surrendered it to Union Army; became hero to antislavery Northerners • Elected to Congress; made land available for blacks to own • Defeated by whites falsely claiming he was corrupt ...
... During Reconstruction • Robert Smalls of South Carolina took command of vessel and slave crew, surrendered it to Union Army; became hero to antislavery Northerners • Elected to Congress; made land available for blacks to own • Defeated by whites falsely claiming he was corrupt ...
Reconstruction Freedom - Hicksville Public Schools
... Damn the negroes! I am fighting these traitorous aristocrats, their masters! ...
... Damn the negroes! I am fighting these traitorous aristocrats, their masters! ...
The Ordeal of Reconstruction
... whether reconstruction would continue with or without the 14th Amendment. The battle-ground became the Congressional elections. Johnson hoped for a majority in favor of his soft approach. Republicans sought a congress that was vetoproof. ...
... whether reconstruction would continue with or without the 14th Amendment. The battle-ground became the Congressional elections. Johnson hoped for a majority in favor of his soft approach. Republicans sought a congress that was vetoproof. ...
Slide 1
... whether reconstruction would continue with or without the 14th Amendment. The battle-ground became the Congressional elections. Johnson hoped for a majority in favor of his soft approach. Republicans sought a congress that was vetoproof. ...
... whether reconstruction would continue with or without the 14th Amendment. The battle-ground became the Congressional elections. Johnson hoped for a majority in favor of his soft approach. Republicans sought a congress that was vetoproof. ...
Presidential Reconstruction
... United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ...
... United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ...
The Reconstruction Era
... – Congress did not agree. They felt that the Union needed to: Extend the life of the freedmen’s Bureau Establish the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (gave full rights as a citizen to African Americans ...
... – Congress did not agree. They felt that the Union needed to: Extend the life of the freedmen’s Bureau Establish the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (gave full rights as a citizen to African Americans ...
AP ch22 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction
... • Johnson vetoed so many important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation, that impeachment was a way to stop him and limit his power. • In 1868 Ulysses S. Grant, a Republican, was elected President. • While Grant was not personally involved, his administration was plagued by scandals throughou ...
... • Johnson vetoed so many important civil rights and Reconstruction legislation, that impeachment was a way to stop him and limit his power. • In 1868 Ulysses S. Grant, a Republican, was elected President. • While Grant was not personally involved, his administration was plagued by scandals throughou ...
A Military Choice (1120L)
... plan were ineligible for their jobs. The amendment also tried to push Southern states toward black suffrage by warning that a state's congressional representation would be reduced if black men were kept from voting. Southern whites were outraged, and President Johnson supported them. He urged them n ...
... plan were ineligible for their jobs. The amendment also tried to push Southern states toward black suffrage by warning that a state's congressional representation would be reduced if black men were kept from voting. Southern whites were outraged, and President Johnson supported them. He urged them n ...
Reconstruction of the South
... • Loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. • Strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for Reconstruction • Opposed b ...
... • Loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. • Strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for Reconstruction • Opposed b ...
THE AGONY OF RECONSTRUCTION
... Ideological commitment to equal rights, even if some did not believe in racial equality Fear that South would fall under great planter control without black suffrage ...
... Ideological commitment to equal rights, even if some did not believe in racial equality Fear that South would fall under great planter control without black suffrage ...
Reconstruction Era Ch 23 - Rosedale Union School District
... from voting. The South began to enact Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation of whites and blacks in the South. The tensions in the South moved to the Supreme Court in 1896 with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. In this landmark case, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to obey Jim Crow laws. He too ...
... from voting. The South began to enact Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation of whites and blacks in the South. The tensions in the South moved to the Supreme Court in 1896 with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case. In this landmark case, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to obey Jim Crow laws. He too ...
Reconstruction (1865-1876) - Warren County Public Schools
... to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Women’s rights groups were furious that they were not granted the vote! ...
... to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Women’s rights groups were furious that they were not granted the vote! ...
Reconstruction - Blue Valley Schools
... 3. Fifteenth Amendment (Passed by Congress in 1869; Ratified in 1870 during Grant’s presidency) a. Purposes: i. To ensure state guarantees of suffrage would not be rescinded if southerners came to dominate Congress in the future. ii. To strengthen Republican control of southern states b. Provisions: ...
... 3. Fifteenth Amendment (Passed by Congress in 1869; Ratified in 1870 during Grant’s presidency) a. Purposes: i. To ensure state guarantees of suffrage would not be rescinded if southerners came to dominate Congress in the future. ii. To strengthen Republican control of southern states b. Provisions: ...
3 Final Exam Review Pre Civil War through
... ■ Jim Crow laws keep blacks from voting –Literacy tests—voters have to read –Poll taxes—voters must pay a tax –Grandfather clauses—allowed whites to avoid literacy test & poll taxes ■ In Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court said segregation was OK (“separate but equal”) ...
... ■ Jim Crow laws keep blacks from voting –Literacy tests—voters have to read –Poll taxes—voters must pay a tax –Grandfather clauses—allowed whites to avoid literacy test & poll taxes ■ In Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court said segregation was OK (“separate but equal”) ...
Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era
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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.