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Civil War Recon Final
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05/05/2008

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Johnson
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- was president during the reconstruction. There was an attempt to impeach him but they didn’t commit him due to there being a chance of a worst person taking his position. Whistle stop Speaking tour, made fool of himself, Swing around the circle,
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Tenure of Office
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Authorized officials appointed with the senates’ consent to remain in office until a successor had been approved, Grant, Johnson over ran it in 1867 and suspended Stanton while congress was not in session and Johnson’s attorney argued that the Act did not apply to Stanton.

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Stanton
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Leader after Lincoln was murdered, Secretary of War, Lincolns murder was part of S. conspiracy, Republican Radical, Wanted a tough policy for the S. Equal rights for blacks,

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Butler
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General, along with Stevens headed congress ag Johnson during trial, questioned over whether President figured head under contrive of congress
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Stevens
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Johnson’s enemy attended impeachment trial, Crippled (clubbed foot), Master of House of Representatives, Responsible for finding ways to finance the war, 13th and 14 th amendment, Republican, wanted every male free black to get 40 Acers of land, N. industrialist wanted to stop S from gaining interest to reduce protection tax, involved with iron and RR, Savior of the school system, Launched Republican party of Lancaster in 1856, Did not drink but gabled, Had sexual relations with his mailto housewife.

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Ross
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Deciding votes not guilty w/ democrat’s not re-elected political career in Kansas, moved to NM and became governor
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Sward
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Secretary of State, Agreed with the British Ambassador that blacks needed to be kept in order and under the guidance of whites till they can handle it on their own, wrote the Freedman Bureau Bill which was rejected by President Johnson. 1867 offered Alaska by Russia and bought 375 million acres of new territory, saw this as a jolly- why want it? Also in 1864 Napoleon III installed Maximillian as Emp of Mexico as puppet govt got Fr out of Mexico and Maximillian killed by Mexicans, went around world.
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Maximillian
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was sent to Mexico by Napoleon III and was later killed by the Mexicans.

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Freedman’s Bureau
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was set up to fight for the civil rights and justice of the slaves, fought for the slaves to be able to testify in court, own land and property, to be able to defend themselves, also to vote.
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Carpetbagger
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Was the North people, were called this because they could fit all of their belongings into a bag, called this by the South, South claimed they packed up all their belongings and came South.
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Scalawag
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called by the Northerners to the South, Wigs.
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Revels
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in the south, they were totally against black rights and wanted the color people to be put back into slavery, Fought against all of the amendments and all of the bills that were being passed for the blacks civil rights.

 

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Bruce
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- Created a powerful machine in Bolivar County, Mississippi, simultaneously holding the office of sheriff, tax collector, and superintendent of education
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Wirz
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- Hung near U.S. capitol building, Prison of Andersonville leader during the Civil War, was the only one hung.
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Ku Klux Klan

 

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- an anti black hate group, burn hang and slay blacks and all people to go along with them, 1868-70, wore sheets to represent death, Leader was John Morgan, 1856 in TN.

            Empire: grand wizard

            State: realm- Grand Dragon

            Group of counties: Dominion- Grand titan

            County: province- Grand Giant

            Local community- den- Grand Cyclops

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Bloody Shirt

 

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emotional way to get people to support the Republican Party, Civil War battles and prison camps, opening old emotional wounds, voting democrat is a repudiation of what they fought for, side step corruption.
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Nast
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A cartoonist, who created cartoons about politicians, most influential, came from Germany, Used bloody shirt in drawings, fought NY democrats, created the Donkey, Elephant and Santa, Kepler was his enemy
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Tammany Hall
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- Was the democratic head quarters, Located in Manhattan, Tweed was in charge of it, Tiger Tammany
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Tweed
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- was the leader of the Democrats and Tammany Hall, downfall was when he hired a new financial officer O’Brian and turned in Tweed for the corruption he had caused, so Tweed ran then returned and died in prison.
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Seymour
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New York Gov. that was drafted to run against Grant, he was the worst Democratic Choice, during the war thought of giving up the war to the Republicans, he lost the election. If he was elected the south would undo reconstruction and go back to treating blacks poorly.

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Logan
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-Ran against Grant in the Republican convention, Lost against Grant.
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Grant
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West Point cadet, Fought in the Mexican war, drank and drunk easily, after 1854 after leading army he did nothing became broke and worked bad jobs to earn money, never gave up on the pursuit of the enemy, believed in total warfare, Remained cool under stress, only ever voted once and voted Democrat for Buchanan, “Let us have peace”, 2 term presidency, worked with the Radicals, 1872 elected for 2nd term by a wide margin, Ran against Greeley.

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Hamilton Fish
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Secretary state under Grant, Extremely component, Negotiated treated of washing disputes of Great Britain, Great Britain awarded us the money, treaty of Washington should be international, got our $, Thomas Nast, cartoonist, big things with him.

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The Gilded Age
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post war period, Twain and Warner book, appropriate for era, “looks expensive” but beneath it is base material, $ on bribes, wheeler and dealers- Jade Gould and James Fisk

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Gould
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Manipulator of RR stock
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Fisk
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circus barker, war contracts, went to S after war, confiscated cotton, spent the money on women
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Horace Greeley
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 ran against Grant and lost, founded the Republican party one of but then ran on the democratic ticket, Nast portrayed him as a bad person, KKK.

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Jay Cooke
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“Financer of the Civil War” and leading individual contender to Grant’s presidential campaigns, him and his company collapsed during the depression of 1873.
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Custer
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was massacred along with his command by Sioux warriors lead by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

 

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Rutherford B. Hayes
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1877 inaugurated without violence, in fear that violence would break out,

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Samuel Tilden
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Followers talked of another Civil War, during election Tilden had more popular votes but not to take office against Hayes, people says that he was cheated, fear of violence, helped send Tweed to jail.
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Zachariah Chandler
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Republican Chair, sent word not to conceder and he would see what he could do, about Tilden vs. Hayes
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Wormley Hotel
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 1877 held a conference, Republican promised if S, allowed Hayes to be sworn in, they would pull out their troops, Neither Fed support or white support for Republican happened, S. blacks abandoned to S. white rule, this compromise was the most successful in history.

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Sumner
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1875 civil rights act gave all people the right to be wherever they wanted to be, in 1883 the act became the 14th amendment.

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Tenant
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 use the land of someone else, Renting

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Sharecropping
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shared $ from the crop with land of someone else, ½ $, land where tended what would the crop, preferred to pay rent instead of sharing the profits.

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Wattston and Grady
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- Editor
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Plessey vs. Ferguson
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- 1896, Plessey 7/8 white, forced to sit in segregated RR car b.c. part black, argued 14th amendment protected property, damaged by segregation, loss of voting rights.

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Redeemers
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- Native S who wants to get white control again.
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Douglass
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- buried in Rochester Cemetery with Susan B Anthony, black trade school, 1985 addressed Atlanta Compromise insisted blacks no interest in Liberal Arts should be interest in industry, former slave, big power
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Booker T. Washington
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- Trade school
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Tuskegee Institute
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- was founded by B.T. Washington, a school for blacks to teach them education.

 

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W.E.B. Dubois
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- Washington appointed much different, born in MA under mixed parentage, PHD at Harvard, struggled for equality, said blacks should pressure liberal arts, Niagara 1905 led meeting Civil Rights for all Blacks NAACP, Unity among blacks,
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