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ESSENTIAL CHAPTER QUESTION
ESSENTIAL CHAPTER QUESTION
In what ways did Reconstruction both succeed and fail?
REBUILDING THE UNION
REBUILDING THE UNION
RECONSTRUCTION UNDER ANDREW JOHNSON | RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
President Johnson and Congress clashed over different goals for Reconstruction.
Unhappy with Johnson’s Reconstruction plans, the Republican Congress took the responsibility away from him.
RECONSTRUCTION CHANGES DAILY LIFE
RECONSTRUCTION CHANGES DAILY LIFE
FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS GAIN A VOICE | EDUCATION AND LAND | RESISTANCE IN THE SOUTH
During Radical Reconstruction, African Americans participated in government, established churches of their own, and tried to reestablish kinship structures.
The Freedmen’s Bureau made education available to African Americans in the South, but other aspects of their lives changed very little.
Afraid of losing political and economic power, some white southerners used terror tactics against African Americans and Republicans.
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION
GRANT'S PRESIDENCY | THE ELECTION OF 1876
After their party’s victory in the 1868 presidential election, Republicans helped pass the 15th Amendment.
As scandals and a depression arose, a compromise reached over a contested election brought Reconstruction to an end.
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VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
Black Codes - (n.) laws passed by southern states immediately after the Civil War for controlling African Americans and limiting their rights; repealed by Reconstruction in 1866
Civil Rights Act of 1866 - (n.) a bill granting full equality and citizenship to "every race and color"
Freedman's Bureau - (n.) the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, created by Congress in 1865 to help former slaves, as well as poor white southerners
Impeachment - (n.) the official charge of a president with misconduct while in office
Presidential Reconstruction - (n.) a policy that stated Confederate states must ratify the 13th Amendment and create new governments with new constitutions before they could rejoin the Union
Radical Reconstruction - (n.) the name given to Republicans' plan in passing the Reconstruction Act of 1867
Reconstruction Acts of 1867 - (n.) acts that put the Republican Congress in charge of Reconstruction instead of the president
Arson - (n.) the purposeful burning of buildings illegally
Black Peonage - (n.) economic slavery that tied African Americans to sharecropping landlords' land
Ku Klux Klan - (n.) the group whose purpose was to maintain the social and political power of white people
Literacy - (n.) the ability to read and write
Lynch - (v.) to hang someone illegally by mob action
Sharecropping - (n.) an agricultural system in which a farmer raises crops for a landowner in return for part of the money made from selling the crops
Social Justice - (n.) the fair distribution of opportunities and privileges, including racial equality
Wage Economy - (n.) an economy in which people are paid for their work
15th Amendment - (n.) an amendment to the Constitution that says that federal and state governments cannot restrict the right to vote because of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude
Bribery - (n.) offers of money or privileges to those in power in exchange for political favors
Compromise of 1877 - (n.) a deal in which Democrat agreed to make Rutherford B. Hayes president if Republicans ended Reconstruction and pulled federal troops out of the South
Copperhead - (n.) a negative nickname for Democrats who opposed emancipation of enslaved people and the draft
Corruption - (n.) dishonesty, unlawfulness
Defect - (v.) to break away
Liberal Republicans - (n.) a group during the 1870s that believed the government had become too large and too powerful
Literacy Test - (n.) test of one's ability to read and write
Panic of 1873 - (n.) an economic crisis triggered by bank and railroad failures
Poll Tax - (n.) a fee charged when people register to vote
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