Texas History

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Texas History Reconstruction Test Review
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Johnsons Reconstruction Plan
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After Lincolns assassination, Vice-President
Andrew Johnson became President. Johnsons plan
included 4 requirements 1. states had to end
slavery 2. states had to declare that their
secession had been illegal 3. cancel all war
debts 4. white males would have to pledge their
loyalty to the U.S. to re-enter the Union.
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Freedmens Bureau
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Organization created to provide food, shelter,
education, and medicine for former slaves. Major
contribution was the creation of schools for
African Americans
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Black Codes
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• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans
  passed during Reconstruction by the South.
• Assigned African Americans to second-class
  status.
• Marriages between Whites and African Americans
  was outlawed.
• African American had to use separate public
  transportation.

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Political Reconstruction
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• Required all states to write a new constitution
  prior to being readmitted into the Union.
• This new constitution must reject secession.
• This new constitution must end slavery

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Social Reconstruction
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• People were affected socially in the Civil War
  and during Reconstruction.
• Family members died while fighting in war or
  while people were away fighting.
• Black Codes were introduced into the South and
  groups like the KKK formed.

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Economic Reconstruction
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• Due to the end of slavery, the south must now
  rely on sharecroppers to work their fields
  instead of plantation agriculture.

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Texas Constitution after the Civil War
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• Constitution of 1869
• Declared U.S. Constitution the law.
• Guaranteed the right of all men to vote
  regardless of race, color, or former condition.
• Texas was admitted back into the Union on March
  8, 1870, after TX ratified the 14th and 15th
  amendments.

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13th Amendment
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude...shall exist within the United
States." Formally abolished slavery (Freedom)
Free
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14th Amendment
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All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside. (American Citizens)
Citizens
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15th Amendment
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The right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude. Was
supposed to guarantee the right to vote to former
slaves while barring discrimination on the basis
of racial origin or skin color at the same time.
(To Vote)
Vote
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Governor Davis
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• Created a new state police program and state
  militia
• Gave Gov. Davis the power to declare martial
  law.
• Texas was readmitted to the Union while he was
  Governor.

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Radical Republicans
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• Radical Republicans gained enough support to
  take control of Congress.
• They wanted to punish Southerners and reorganize
  the South.
• New plan focused on limiting the role of former
  Confederate leaders and protecting the civil
  rights of African Americans.

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Andrew Johnson
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After Lincolns assassination, Vice-President
Andrew Johnson became President. Johnsons plan
included 4 requirements 1. states had to end
slavery 2. states had to declare that their
secession had been illegal 3. cancel all war
debts 4. white males would have to pledge their
loyalty to the U.S. to re-enter the Union.
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Ku Klux Klan
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• Secret group who wanted to restore Democratic
  control in the South and to keep former slaves
  powerless.
• They attacked African Americans and white
  Republicans.
• They rode on horseback and were dressed in white
  robes and hoods.
• They beat people and burned their homes.