AMH2020 Midterm 1
- Black man who lived in mississippi
- As mississippi is transitioning into participation
under reconstruction government, hiram rebels is
elected to the senate
- Black republican
Hiram Rhodes
- Took jefferson davis' seat
- President of the confederacy
- Before Abe Lincoln was assassinated he had his
own plan for reconstruction.
- "If we take the voting population of the state, only
10% of that would need to take a loyalty oath
10 percent plan affirming their devotion to the United States"
- 1877
- The first of a group of amendments called the
Reconstruction
Amendments - Promoted and passed by radical republicans
1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting
themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing
Freedmen's Bureau to needy blacks and helped them get jobs
1865 as Sherman moved through the south he issues
a grant of 40 acres of farmable land and a mule to
40 acres and a mule freed slaves in an attempt to solve the problems of
refugees
- Passed by Johnson
- This act would not stand because of the dred scott
case
- Had to overturn a supreme court case
- Need an amendment to the constitution
Civil rights act of 1865
- Another supreme court case declaring that the
previous is null and void
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, AMH2020 Midterm 1
- Radicals passed this to overturn dred scott
- Birthright citizenship
- Due process under the law
- Have equal protection under the law
- Previously could not sue in court (unequal
14th amendment protection)
- Insurrection of the state is not eligible for office in
the state
- They were creating laws against black people, which
did not go along with the right to due process
Some included
- No black people out past a certain time
- Black people could not bear arms
- Black people could not be out without permission
from their employers
- Meant to "protect wealthy whites from newly freed
blacks"
Black codes - The attempt was that the southern states would
maintain much of the antebellum status quo as
possible
- Took the southern states, divided them into military
districts
- Tennessee was already in the union because they
ratified the - 13th and 14th amendments
- 10 states in 5 districts
- There was a US army general in charge of each
district
military reconstruction act - Marshall law and military control of the south
- The troops were the police force in these districts
- These acts took away the power that the southern
state governments had
- The president could not issue military orders, could
not remove generals, without the consent of congress
- Congress cannot take this power away from the
command of army act president, but they do it anyways
2
, AMH2020 Midterm 1
- Required the president to get approval from the
senate when removing or appointing officials
- Constitutionally the senate does have a consent and
advise power
- If the senate does not approve appointments they
tenure of office act can vote them down
- Does not have the power to deny a president from
firing, just hiring
15th amendment granted voting rights to black men
- Gone with the wind the movie came out in the 1930s
and portrayed the civil war as a war of northern
aggression
- the reconstruction period is presented as a period
where black people and northern republicans are
"negro misrule" coming in to stir up controversy
- Birth of a nation also portrays reconstruction as a
time of blacks coming in and taking over everything
- Both sides agreed that Hayes would be president
- South carolina, florida, louisian readmitted into the
country
- Agreed that Hayes would appoint a southern
democrat to his cabinet
Compromise of 1877 - There is a tradition that an opposition party member
is often given a cabinet position
-Supposed to be seen as a symbol of good faith
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- Black man who lived in mississippi
- As mississippi is transitioning into participation
under reconstruction government, hiram rebels is
elected to the senate
- Black republican
Hiram Rhodes
- Took jefferson davis' seat
- President of the confederacy
- Before Abe Lincoln was assassinated he had his
own plan for reconstruction.
- "If we take the voting population of the state, only
10% of that would need to take a loyalty oath
10 percent plan affirming their devotion to the United States"
- 1877
- The first of a group of amendments called the
Reconstruction
Amendments - Promoted and passed by radical republicans
1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting
themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing
Freedmen's Bureau to needy blacks and helped them get jobs
1865 as Sherman moved through the south he issues
a grant of 40 acres of farmable land and a mule to
40 acres and a mule freed slaves in an attempt to solve the problems of
refugees
- Passed by Johnson
- This act would not stand because of the dred scott
case
- Had to overturn a supreme court case
- Need an amendment to the constitution
Civil rights act of 1865
- Another supreme court case declaring that the
previous is null and void
1
, AMH2020 Midterm 1
- Radicals passed this to overturn dred scott
- Birthright citizenship
- Due process under the law
- Have equal protection under the law
- Previously could not sue in court (unequal
14th amendment protection)
- Insurrection of the state is not eligible for office in
the state
- They were creating laws against black people, which
did not go along with the right to due process
Some included
- No black people out past a certain time
- Black people could not bear arms
- Black people could not be out without permission
from their employers
- Meant to "protect wealthy whites from newly freed
blacks"
Black codes - The attempt was that the southern states would
maintain much of the antebellum status quo as
possible
- Took the southern states, divided them into military
districts
- Tennessee was already in the union because they
ratified the - 13th and 14th amendments
- 10 states in 5 districts
- There was a US army general in charge of each
district
military reconstruction act - Marshall law and military control of the south
- The troops were the police force in these districts
- These acts took away the power that the southern
state governments had
- The president could not issue military orders, could
not remove generals, without the consent of congress
- Congress cannot take this power away from the
command of army act president, but they do it anyways
2
, AMH2020 Midterm 1
- Required the president to get approval from the
senate when removing or appointing officials
- Constitutionally the senate does have a consent and
advise power
- If the senate does not approve appointments they
tenure of office act can vote them down
- Does not have the power to deny a president from
firing, just hiring
15th amendment granted voting rights to black men
- Gone with the wind the movie came out in the 1930s
and portrayed the civil war as a war of northern
aggression
- the reconstruction period is presented as a period
where black people and northern republicans are
"negro misrule" coming in to stir up controversy
- Birth of a nation also portrays reconstruction as a
time of blacks coming in and taking over everything
- Both sides agreed that Hayes would be president
- South carolina, florida, louisian readmitted into the
country
- Agreed that Hayes would appoint a southern
democrat to his cabinet
Compromise of 1877 - There is a tradition that an opposition party member
is often given a cabinet position
-Supposed to be seen as a symbol of good faith
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