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HIST151
US History Since 1865-
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Undergraduate 2
02/19/2009

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Term
 Freedmen's Bureau
Definition

*A tempory agency that helped former freed slaves by providing relieft, education, legal help, obtaining land, and employment.

*Represented the very best of intensions to help.

* Accidently treated clients like children. 

Term
Radical Republicans
Definition
*Branch of republican part(new), wanted the former slaves to have rights and to be equal.
*Initially welcomed Johnsons ascent to the presidency. b/c he was loyal to the Union and thought that ex-confederates should be severly treated. (but later they did not like his policies) 
Term
Andrew Johnson
Definition
*President after Lincolns assissination.
*Similar to lincoln except he was very lonley man, stubborn, self-centered, (made most raceist quote in print)
*Stays in Union for class base reasons
*Doesn't like Planters Elite or former slaves.  
*Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1866) 
Term
13th Amendment
Definition
Slavery Prohibited in U.S. (Jan. 1865)
Term
14th Amendment
Definition
1.)National Citizenship (June. 1860)
2.) State Representation in Congress reduced proportionally to number of voters disfranchised.
3.) Former Confederates denied right to hold office
4.)Confederate debt repudiated.
 
Term
15th Amendment
Definition
Denial of franchise b/c of race, color, or past servitude explicity prohibited. (Feb. 1869)
Term
Black Codes
Definition
Restricted blacks in just about everyday life.
*Did not allow to own/rent land.
*created laws that saught to fashion a system like slavery once again.
*Arrested for breaking any of these laws and leased out to a master for punishment.
(Planters Victory)  
Term
KKK
Definition
*Ku Klux Klan (1866)
*Tenn. began as a social club.
*Later evovled into an underground terrorist group.
*Main goal: intimate Republican voters (lincoln)
=teachers were attacked who taught blacks, even whites who voted republican=
*Leasing land to blacks was met with physical actions
*Economic success was offensive to KKK if one was black.  
Term
Southern Reconstruction Governments
Definition
Phases of Reconstruction
1.) Johnsons Reconstruction (Presidentional Reconstruction) (1865-1866)
2.) Congressional Reconstruction(1866-1876)
3.) End of Reconstruction(1876-1877)  
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