Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Final Study Guide
the study terms for Hist. 207b, latter part of U.S. History
8
History
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2010

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Black Codes
Definition
laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves
Term
Freedman's Bureau
Definition
Reconstruction Agency established in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning
Term
Johnson's Reconstruction Program
Definition
*Former Confederate leaders retained Political and Economical Power
* Suffrage was recommended, not required.
*Confederate States had to ratify 13th amendment(abolished slavery) to be readmitted.
* Johnson was extremely lenient.
Term
Radical Republican Reconstruction Program
Definition
*Carved up the south into 5 militsry districts.
*South had to create new state governments under their requirements
*to be readmitted:
-Former Confederate leaders excluded from office and to vote
-black suffrage
-ratify 14th admendment
-This program was considered harsh, demanding, punishing to south, but necessary in eyes of north
Term
Fourteenth Amendment
Definition
Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves
Term
Fifteen Amendment
Definition
Guaranteed Blacks the right to vote. Southern states had to ratify to be readmitted into the Union.
Term
The collapse of Reconstruction
Definition
Disfranchisement programs set up in the south.
Jim Crow Laws
Lynchings
Term
Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
Establishing a court ruling on segregation; separate but equal.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!