Abraham Lincoln | Andrew Johnson | Congressional Reconstruction | The South | The North |
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Confederates were still a part of the Union
What is Lincoln's main belief after the war?
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To appeal to the south
Why did congress pick Johnson to be Lincoln's running mate?
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Moderates and radicals
What are the two Republican groups?
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Nathaniel Forest
Who founded the Ku Klux Klan?
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Industry: Railroads, factories
What was the highlight of the economy?
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Provided food and shelter for both races.
It would resettle blacks on confiscated land
What was Freedman's Bureau?
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The Republicans because he was a southern Democrat
Who opposed Johnson? Why?
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Women suffrage
Rights for labor unions Civil Rights
What three things did Radicals achieve
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They called Southern Republicans "scalawags" and Northern newcomers "carpetbaggers."
What did Southerners call Republicans?
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political favors in exchange for jobs
What are the political manipulators?
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Attempted to pass the Wade-Davis bill
How did Congress oppose the Proclamation of Amnesty?
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Disfranchisement of:
All former office holders of the confederacy Confederates with more than $20,000 in taxable property
What were the major points in Johnson's Reconstruction proclamation?
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Everyone born or naturalized into the country is a citizen
All citizens have equal rights
What is the 14th Amendment?
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Universal Male suffrage, property rights for women, modern penal codes, the building of roads, bridges, railroads, and other internal improvements.
What did the Republicans promote?
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Horace Greeley
Which candidate did both the Republicans and Democrats support?
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It allowed confederates to be pardoned if they swore a loyalty oath and emancipated their slaves. The state government would be reestablished id 10% took the loyalty oath
What was the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in 1863?
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a bill that increased the power of freedman’s bureau and a civil rights bill that nullified the Black Codes and granted full citizenship and equal rights to African Americans
What bill did Johnson veto?
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that Confederates were not entitled to representation
What did the joint committee determine?
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Churches, communities, and families
What did free slaves establish?
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Northern Laborers were left jobless and homeless in 1873
What happened in the panic of 1873?
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To reunify the United States after the civil war
What was the purpose of the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in 1863?
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Johnson used the presidential pardon
How did many confederates get back into office?
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An act passed that prohibited the president from removing a federal official or military commander without the approval of the Senate despite Johnson’s veto
What is the Tenure of Office in 1867?
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The use of a contract to force unlimited labor
What is sharecropping?
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The creation of paper money
What did debtors demand?
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