Who Were The Radical Republicans

Theadus stevens, wade davis bill; The Radical Republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.

Ten Percent plan- it was a plan that made it possible for states to reinerate if 10% of 1860 voter took an oath of alligiance to support the emancipation

1) Fed. Gov. active in changing south politics 2) destroy pwr of former slave holders 3) Africans given the right to vote

African americans should be garenteed equal rights only if individual states wanted to grant them to freedem

it was a discriminatory law passed about what blacks cant do like carry guns, marry whites, travel without permits, testify against whites

1) Assisted former slaves 2) Poor whites in south (giving them clothes) 3) Set up more than 40 hospitals

1865, abolish slavery

1868, anyone born here or become a citizen you then have full rights

prohibits the denial of voting rights to the people because of there race or color or cause they were slaves

an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses

Tenure of Office Act, in U.S. history, measure passed on Mar. 2, 1867, by Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson; it forbade the President to remove any federal officeholder appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate without the further approval of the Senate.

he violated the tenure of office act but was not convicted

Scalawag: a white southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war Carpetbaggers: a northerner who moved to the south after the civil war

they were people against the republicans, it was first formed to make blacks stop voting but it soon turned into hate and wanting to kindve end other races of colr

it was basically a tie and they gave it to him

a series of congressional measures under which the democrats agreed to accept hayes as pres even though he has lost the popular vote. the measures included the withdrawl of federal troops from southern states, federal money for improving southern infrastucuture and appointment of a conservatice southern cabinate member

John Wilks booth, fords theatre

Abraham, johnson, grant, hayes

all these cases took all the amendments and where we were as a country one step back for example the slaughterhouse they decided was granted b/c of one's citezens ship in a state so it was the "states right"

sharecropping, tenant farming

a system in which landowners give farm workers land, seeds and tools in return for a part of the crops raise

a system in which farm workers supply there own tools and rent farm/land for cash

The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States at the state and local level.

"seperate but equal' basically allowed legalized segragation for the next 60 yrs

it changed the gold standard - the long depression

it restored the southern build for the south which in return came the jim crow laws

Hiram R. Revels is the first African American to serve in the United States Senate. Hiram R. Revels was born on September 27, 1827, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Revels was a minister who, in 1870, became the first African-American United States senator, representing the state of Mississippi.