AMH 2020 Midterm MDC Martins
A plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln during
the Civil War, but never implemented, that would have
granted amnesty to most ex-Confederates and
allowed each rebellious state to return to the Union as
soon as 10 percent of its voters had taken a loyalty
Ten Percent Plan
oath and the state had approved the Thirteenth
Amendment.
Required an oath of allegiance by a majority of each
Wade-Davis Bill state's adult white men.
Designed to force former slaves back to plantation
Black Codes labor.
Freedmen's Bureau to aid displaced blacks and other war refugees.
which declared formerly enslaved people to be
citizens and granted them equal protection and rights
Civil rights act of 1866 of contract, with full access to the courts.
declared that "all persons born or naturalized in the
Fourteenth Amendment United States" were citizens.
enacted in March, divided the conquered South into
Reconstruction Act of five military districts, each under the command of a
1867 U.S. general.
protected male citizens' right to vote irrespective of
Fifteenth Amendment race, color, or "previous condition of servitude."
they remained loyal to the Republican Party in hopes
that once Reconstruction had been settled, it would
be women's turn. Women's suffrage was unlikely in
American Women the near future so leader Elizabeth Staton formed the
Suffrage Association NWSA.
focused exclusively on women's rights and took up
National Women Suffrage
Association the battle for a federal suffrage amendment.
the Supreme Court dashed such hopes. It ruled that
suffrage rights were not inherent in citizenship;
Minor v. Happersett women were citizens, but state legislatures could
deny women the vote if they wished.
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, AMH 2020 Midterm MDC Martins
System of cotton agriculture, in which freedmen
worked as renters,
exchanging their labor for the use of land,
Sharecropping house,implements, and sometimes seed and fertilizer.
allowed private companies to hire out prisoners to
convict leasing labor in mines and other industries
A derisive name given by ex-Confederates to
northerners who, motivated by idealism or the search
Carpetbaggers for personal opportunity or profit, moved to the South
during Reconstruction.
Southern whites who supported Republican
Reconstruction and were ridiculed by ex-
Scalawags Confederates as worthless traitors.
A law that required "full and equal" access to jury
service and to transportation and public
Civil rights act of 1875 accommodations, irrespective of race.
A sham corporation set up by shareholders in the
Union Pacific Railroad to secure government grants
Credit Mobilier at an enormous profit.
Secret society that first undertook violence against
African Americans in the South after the Civil War but
was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats
Ku Klux Klan posed by African Americans, immigrants, radicals,
feminists, Catholics, and Jews.
authorized federal prosecutions, military intervention,
and martial law to suppress terrorist activity
Enforcement Laws
the ruling to undercut the power of the Fourteenth
Slaughterhouse Cases Amendment to protect African American rights.
the justices also struck down the Civil Rights Act of
1875,
Civil Rights Cases (1883) paving the way for later decisions that sanctioned
segregation.
Wyoming Territory grants suffrage to women in 1869
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A plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln during
the Civil War, but never implemented, that would have
granted amnesty to most ex-Confederates and
allowed each rebellious state to return to the Union as
soon as 10 percent of its voters had taken a loyalty
Ten Percent Plan
oath and the state had approved the Thirteenth
Amendment.
Required an oath of allegiance by a majority of each
Wade-Davis Bill state's adult white men.
Designed to force former slaves back to plantation
Black Codes labor.
Freedmen's Bureau to aid displaced blacks and other war refugees.
which declared formerly enslaved people to be
citizens and granted them equal protection and rights
Civil rights act of 1866 of contract, with full access to the courts.
declared that "all persons born or naturalized in the
Fourteenth Amendment United States" were citizens.
enacted in March, divided the conquered South into
Reconstruction Act of five military districts, each under the command of a
1867 U.S. general.
protected male citizens' right to vote irrespective of
Fifteenth Amendment race, color, or "previous condition of servitude."
they remained loyal to the Republican Party in hopes
that once Reconstruction had been settled, it would
be women's turn. Women's suffrage was unlikely in
American Women the near future so leader Elizabeth Staton formed the
Suffrage Association NWSA.
focused exclusively on women's rights and took up
National Women Suffrage
Association the battle for a federal suffrage amendment.
the Supreme Court dashed such hopes. It ruled that
suffrage rights were not inherent in citizenship;
Minor v. Happersett women were citizens, but state legislatures could
deny women the vote if they wished.
1
, AMH 2020 Midterm MDC Martins
System of cotton agriculture, in which freedmen
worked as renters,
exchanging their labor for the use of land,
Sharecropping house,implements, and sometimes seed and fertilizer.
allowed private companies to hire out prisoners to
convict leasing labor in mines and other industries
A derisive name given by ex-Confederates to
northerners who, motivated by idealism or the search
Carpetbaggers for personal opportunity or profit, moved to the South
during Reconstruction.
Southern whites who supported Republican
Reconstruction and were ridiculed by ex-
Scalawags Confederates as worthless traitors.
A law that required "full and equal" access to jury
service and to transportation and public
Civil rights act of 1875 accommodations, irrespective of race.
A sham corporation set up by shareholders in the
Union Pacific Railroad to secure government grants
Credit Mobilier at an enormous profit.
Secret society that first undertook violence against
African Americans in the South after the Civil War but
was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats
Ku Klux Klan posed by African Americans, immigrants, radicals,
feminists, Catholics, and Jews.
authorized federal prosecutions, military intervention,
and martial law to suppress terrorist activity
Enforcement Laws
the ruling to undercut the power of the Fourteenth
Slaughterhouse Cases Amendment to protect African American rights.
the justices also struck down the Civil Rights Act of
1875,
Civil Rights Cases (1883) paving the way for later decisions that sanctioned
segregation.
Wyoming Territory grants suffrage to women in 1869
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