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| chapter 17: Key Points: Reconstruction: |
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The reconstruction of the South. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson wanted a permissive and fast plan for Reconstruction. After Lincoln died the majority of Northereners favored the Ratical Republications |
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| A political group who desired to put an end to the reign of the old planters' class on Southern society and economy. |
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| Congressional Reconstruction: |
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| Contains the agreement that to reenter the Union, previously Confederate states had to ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments. |
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| Military Reconstruction Act: |
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| An act that Congress authorized that protected the voting rights of African Americans. |
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| A lot of European American Southerners blamed their poorness on African Americans and "Yankees". European American hordes attacked African Americans in 1866 in Memphis and New Orleans. The Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club that same year; it's members soon began to threaten African Americans and European American Republicans. Despite Government invovling itself in the battles, violence insued and even got worse in the South. |
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| Newly freed former Slaves suffered from poverty. The majority of the African Americans who were ex-slaves didn't have the means to succeed in the post war devestation. There wasn't any sort of redistribution of land. ex-slaves were given their freedom but no more than that. Many found relief in their families and the independent churches they made. Some even took part in state and local government under the last, radical phrase in the Reconstruction. |
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| Strived to educate and help ex-slaves and reunite their families. |
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| Fiscal issues controlled politics during U. S. Grant's administration. |
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