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Civil Rights Definitions

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Terms: Ten Percent Plan-proposed by Abe but never put in effect, would have granted amnesty to most ex-confederates and allow each rebellious state to return to the Union Wade Davis Bill- that an oath of allegiance by a majority of each state's adult white men, new governments formed only by those who had never taken up arms against the Union and permanent disenfranchisement of confederate leaders Black Codes- laws passed after the Civil War that denied ex-slaves the civil rights enjoyed by whites (only in south) Freedmen's Bureau- Civil Rights Act of 1866-legislation passed by Congress that nullified the Black Codes and Affirmed that African Americans should have equal benefits under law Fourteenth Amendment- All native born people to the …show more content…

Freedmen's Bureau gets extension gave it direct funding and authorized agents to investigate black discrimination iv. Johnson did not like Congressional civil rights bill- formerly enslaved people could become citizens and granted equal protection and rights of contract with full access to courts v. 1866- he vetoed the acts an claimed government was only for whites vi. After Johnson's attack on the civil right bill republicans make the civil rights act of 1866 vii. Johnson went a railroad campaign tour which caused audience members to brawl viii. Republicans add blacks in the 14th amendment ix. Johnson urged them not to ratify it, democrats used it as a campaign issued x. Republicans won! Overwhelming support for securing rights of ex-slaves. xi. Radicals reconstruction was for remaking southern society c. Radical Reconstruction i. The reconstruction Act of 1867- divided south to 5 military districts, under a Union general ii. Congress overrode Johnson's veto on the reconstruction act iii. Price to return to the Union was granting suffrage iv. Senate reconvened- overruled staton's suspension v. House of Representation created the article of impeachment against …show more content…

Classical liberals emerged free trade, smaller governments, and limited voting rights viii. Denounced universal suffrage- say that blacks were unfit to govern b. Counterrevolution in the South i. Undoing of reconstruction due to southerners resistance and northern acquiesces ii. Democrats wanted to restore voting rights for ex confederates iii. KKK secret group that harassed and attacked blacks iv. Enforcement Laws an attempt to stop them v. Assault on Klan demonstrates how dependent African Americans and southern republicans were on the federal government vi. Northern thought reconstruction just produced bloodshed vii. Mississippi- armed local democrats= take control of ballot boxes/ state viii. Courts begin to undercut the power of the 14th Amendment c. The Political Crisis of 1877 i. Republicans - Ruther Hayes ii. Democrats- Samuel Tilden iii. Both favored home rule for the south iv. Hayes won the election= reconstruction ended d. Lasting Legacies i. Withdraw troops from the south= rise of Confederate and southern democratic power ii. Southern whites used violence to stop blacks. Reconstruction messed up the legal framework the justified the US as a white man's

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