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Sharecropping
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10% Plan
All southern states that joined the CSA had to pledge alliegence to the union and had to make a new state gov. and 10% of the voters swore loyalty to Union -
Wade-Davis Bill
required majority of white men in southern state to swear loyalty to union
denied right to vote or hold office to any one that volunteered to fight for he CSA -
Freedmen's Bureau
gave food, clothing to former slaves and helped to find them jobs also helped poor white
set up schools for freedman -
Lincoln is Asseinated
Lincoln was shot by a southern actor and this made the north want to punish the south very harshly -
Andrew Johnson's new reconstruction plan
Each state had to ratify 13th admit which banned slavery throughout the nation
majority of voters had to pledge to union -
KKK
White spriest groups went around and hurt blacks and tried to keep them from voting with violence -
Balco codes
Jim crow laws and black codes were made to make blacks have a hard time using there rights -
Radical Republicans
RR had a harsh view on reconstruction and wanted to make it hard for the south to join -
Civil Rights Act
gave citizen ship to AA -
Reconstruction Act
Radicals took over reconstruction and every state gov the refused to ratify the 14th amend was throw out
spilt south into five military district and northern troops sent down
had to right new state cnst and ratify 14th -
New Southern Gov
Three Groups took power in gov
Northerns (carpetbaggers)
White Southern Republicans
African Americans -
14th Amendment
said a citizen was someone born in the states and that everyone had equal righthand that states couldn't discriminate against someone because of there race -
Impeachment of Johnson
tried to get johnson impeached for vetoing everything that was trying to help the AA didn't work because it wasn't a real reason -
Grant became president
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15th Amendment
foreboded any state to deny a citizens right to vote because of race, color, religion act. -
End of Reconstruction
north grew weary of reconstruction decided t et south run own gov even if it meant some AA might loss there rights -
Amnesty Act
restored right to vote to nearly all white southerns -
Democrats take over in south
Southern kept AA from voting and voted in democrats
by 1876 SC, FL, TN only states under republican control -
Election of 1876
southern democrats voted Samuel Tilden won popular vote
Ruthord B. Hayes won election because of electoral vote -
Segregation
Segregation became law of the south -
New South
cotton producing went back up
textile mills were being built
tabaco industy grew
mining started happening
started making furniture -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
court case ruled that segregation was ;legal as long as facilities were equal
they weren't -
Conservitives
someone who did want reconstruction in south
had power before the civil war