Chapter 18 - Reconstruction

________- Southerners that cooperated.

________- Healing wounds of Civil War.

________- Unable to pay in cashless economy.

________- Banned AA from public facilities.

________- Emancipate slaves + swear loyalty to Union.

________- African descent → Disallow to pass test.

________- Ignored by Congress.

Proposed by Abraham Lincoln

Emancipate slaves + swear loyalty to Union

Angry @ Lincoln (too lenient)

Lincolns VP

Becomes President

Ratified

Blame Democrats → Gain political power

RR takeover of Congress

Leader of RR in Senate

Ratified

Citizen rights for freedmen

Ignored by Congress

Southerners that cooperated

Northerners → South to reap benefits

Impeachment of Johnson

Ratified

State govts + Democratic Party + Black Codes

African descent → Disallow to pass test

Unable to pay in cashless economy

Banned AA from public facilities

Healing wounds of Civil War

Democrats vs. Republicans + executive vs. legislative

Reforms → Punish South

The period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans

Specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union

Assumed the presidency as he was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime

A faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from the founding of the Republican Party in 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in the Compromise of 1877

An agency of early Reconstruction assisting freedmen in the South

A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

One of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s

Established by Congress in December 1865 to investigate and establish conditions for seceded states to regain their congressional representation

An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government

Divided the South into five military districts governed by previous Union generals

A United States federal law in force from 1867 to 1887 that was intended to restrict the power of the president to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate

The process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct

A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years

A Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history

Granted African American men the right to vote

A secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves

An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana

The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote

State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States