Unit 6: Reconstruction
Review terms for the second half of unit 6.
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- 14th Amendment
- States were prohibited from denying equal rights under the law to any American
- Radical Republicans
- Republicans who wanted Reconstruction to punish the South but also to guarantee civil rights to African-Americans
- Compromise of 1877
- In exchange for votes for the Republican presidential candidate, Republicans agreed to end military occupation of the South. Ended Reconstruction.
- 15th Amendment
- Voting rights were guaranteed regardless of "race, color or previous condition of servitude"
- Abraham Lincoln
- President whose view of Reconstruction was that it was a matter of quickly restoring state governments, "with malice towards none, with charity for all...to bind up the nation's wounds"
- Election of 1876
- Extremely close election in which the Republican and Democratic candidates tied; ended Reconstruction
- Jim Crow Era
- Period after Reconstruction in which African-Americans were denied full citizenship in the South
- Atlanta, Richmond
- Cities devastated by the Civil War
- industry
- what the Northern and Midwestern economies were based on after the Civil War
- Ulysses S Grant
- Union miliary leader who became president
- Andrew Johnson
- Lincoln's vice president and successor who was almost impeached after clashing with Radical Republicans over Reconstruction
- impeachment
- Formal accusation against a public offical, the first step in removal from office
- agriculture
- What the southern economy was based on long after the Civil War
- South
- Poorest section of the nation after the Civil War
- Robert E Lee
- Confederate general who urged Southerners to accept defeat and reunite when some wanted to fight on after Appomattox
- 13th Amendment
- Permanently abolished slavery in the US