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Flashcards by Ruby Jenkins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ruby Jenkins
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| ULYSSES S. GRANT | 1) LINCOLN APPOINTS HIM SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE UNION ARMY 2) GENERAL LEE (CONFEDERATE MILITARY LEADER) SURRENDERED TO GRANT AT APPOMATTOX 3) LATER, BECAME 18TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES |
| CARPETBAGGERS | 1) NEW ARRIVALS FROM THE NORTH WHO CAME DOWN TO BENEFIT FROM THE COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY 2) OFTEN BECAME LEADERS OF THE NEW SOUTHERN GOVERNMENTS (SINCE INITIALLY FORMER CONFEDERATE LEADERS COULD NOT LONGER HOLD OFFICE) |
| SCALAWAGS | SOUTHERN WHITES WHO SUPPORTED RECONSTRUCTION |
| RADICAL REPUBLICANS | SMALL GROUP OF REPUBLICANS WHO FELT THAT THE SOUTH SHOULD BE PUNISHED AND THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS SHOULD BE GRANTED FULL POLITICAL AND CIVIL EQUALITY |
| CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 | 1) THE FIRST UNITED STATES FEDERAL LAW TO DEFINE CITIZENSHIP AND AFFIRM THAT ALL CITIZENS ARE EQUALLY PROTECTED BY THE LAW 2) MAINLY INTENDED TO PROTECT THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF BLACK PEOPLE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR |
| 13TH AMENDMENT | ENDED SLAVERY |
| 14TH AMENDMENT | DEFINED THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENSHIP |
| 15TH AMENDMENT | PROTECTED "ALL" CITIZENS RIGHTS TO VOTE |
| JIM CROW LAWS | 1) LAWS ESTABLISHING RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE SOUTH (NAMED AFTER A CHARACTER IN A SONG-DANCE SHOW) 2) PURPOSE OF JIM CROW LAWS - GET AROUND THE 13TH, 14TH, 15TH AMENDMENTS |
| BLACK CODES | PREVENTED PERSONS OF COLOR FROM VOTING, SERVING ON JURIES, TESTIFYING IN COURT AGAINST WHITES, HOLDING OFFICE, SERVING IN THE STATE MILITIA…AND EVEN ENTERING INTO CONTRACTS AND MARRIAGES WITH WHITES |
| NADIR OF RACE RELATIONS | 1) FROM THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, WHEN RACISM WAS AT ITS WORST 2) ANTI-BLACK VIOLENCE, LYNCHINGS, SEGREGATION, LEGAL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, AND EXPRESSIONS OF WHITE SUPREMACY INCREASED |
| SHARECROPPING | 1) LANDOWNER PROVIDED LAND AND TOOLS…IN TURN, THE SHARECROPPER GAVE A LARGE SHARE OF HIS CROPS TO THE LANDOWNER 2) DIFFERENT FROM TENANT FARMING – TENANT FARMERS RENTED THE LAND BUT PROVIDED THEIR OWN TOOLS AND PROVISION S |
| DEBT PEONAGE | 1) IF THE SHARECROPPER OR TENANT FARMER OWED ANY MONEY/CROPS TO THE LANDOWNER, HE COULD NOT LEAVE UNTIL THE DEBT WAS PAID (WHICH, IN MANY CASES, COULD NEVER HAPPEN) 2) KEPT FREEDMEN IN MUCH SAME SITUATION AS SLAVERY |
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