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The Ambiguous Greatness of America
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Lincoln's 10% Plan •Did not consult Congress •10% of state voting population had to take oath to United States + government •Way back into the Union •Mockery of democracy
Wade-Davis Bill •July 1864 •white male majority government •be delegate to constitution (Ironclad Oath) •Officers above lieutenant in Confederation not longer American citizens
13th Amendment •Passed January 31 1865 •abolishment of slavery
Freedman's Bureau •Created March 1865 •relief, education + employment for former slaves/white refugee •founded over 4000 schools
Black's Freedom Path •Often ended up working for the farms they were freed from •try to reunite families • "Sea Islands" •Education (600k by 1877) •Religion (by 1877 African Methodist Episcopal had 1k ministers + 40k members) •"Sharecropping"
Sea Islands •General Sherman's Special Field Order number 15 •February 1865 •400k acres in Sea Islands for freed-people •President Johnson order removal in October
Sharecropping •materialized by 1868 •tenants give land owners portion of crop •tenant given all supplies •lead to perma-debt
Andrew Johnson •Succeeded Lincoln •White supremacist •"Pardon Policy" •The South's Champion (retuning power to the Old Elite) •Congress challenged his authority •Trialed For Impeachment
Black Code Revision of slave code Black people had to: carry passes, abide by curfew, house provided by landowner State School&Orphanages excluded blacks
Radicals •Radical Republicans: Thaddeus Stevens •favoured black suffrage •pushed for land redistribution •willing to exclude the south
14th Amendment •U.S citizen is anyone born in the U.S.A •State could not interfere with citizens constitutional right •Stated voters must be male
Reconstruction Act •First passed in March 1867 •Federal military districts •New state constitutions •Black male suffrage in states •States must ratify 14th Amendment
"Negro Rule" •Idea of Blacks Dominating •Rally cry for white supremacist •A myth to hold onto white power
Carpetbaggers & Scalawags Carpetbaggers White northerns who support blacks Scalawags white southerners who cooperated w/ Republicans Terms deemed by Conservatives
Ku Klux Klan Referred to as KKK secret veterans club (est. Tennessee, 1866) Committed mass terrorism Reason for "Enforcement Acts"
Enforcement Acts •1870 and 1871 •To protect black voters •To end KKK terror •Violations of civil/political rights now federal offence
Knights of Labor lead by Terence C. Powerdly No child, conviction labour Equal Pay Public land for settles Modern day left-winged liberals Became The Peoples Party
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