APUSH Chapter 15

-Prohibited racial discrimination in all public accommodation and transportation

-Prohibited courts from excluding African Americans from juries

• Civil RIghts Act of 1865

• Civil RIghts Act of 1866

• Civil RIghts Act of 1875

• Civil RIghts Act of 1876

-Declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens

-Gave "equal protection of the laws" and "due process of law"

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Which of the two following men were the first African American senators, both elected in Mississippi?

• Charles Sumner

• Blanche K Bruce

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Hiram Revels

Which of the two following men were the Radical Republican leaders in Congress?

• Charles Sumner

• Blanche K Bruce

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Hiram Revels

-Term for White Republican Southerners who cooperated with and served in Reconstruction governments

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedman's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

-Form of farming for freed slaves in the South

-Received a small plot of land, seed, fertilizer, tools from the landlord who usually took half of the harvest

-It evolved into a new form of slaver

• Scalawag

• Black Codes

• Ku Klux Klan

• Sharecropping

-Lincoln's reconstruction plan (10% Plan)

-Full presidential pardon for most Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the US

-Had to accept the emancipation of slaves

-Reestablished state governments as soon as at least 10 percent of the voters in the state took the loyalty oath

• Tenure of Office Act

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

• Patronage

-New York City politician

-Arranged schemes that allowed he and his cronies to steal about $200 million dollars from New York

-Eventually sentenced to prison in 1871

• William (Boss) Tweed

• Samuel J Tilden

• Rutherford B Hayes

• Andrew Johnson

-Settled the 1876 presidential election

-Said that Hayes would become president

-In return, he would remove all federal troops from the South

• Panic of 1873

• Tenure of Office Act

• Compromise of 1877

• Black Codes

-One of the key inducements used by party machines and spoils men

-A job, promotion, or contract that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence

• Redeemers

• Sharecropping

• Scalawag

• Patronage