https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t APUSH Unit 7 Vocab Menu en-us 2018-12-12 16:57:37 UTC 2025-04-04 15:18:50 UTC hello@padlet.com jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313933829 This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory.]]> 2018-12-12 16:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313933829 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313934845 (1846-1848) Conflict after US annexation of Texas; Mexico still considered Texas its own; Victor: US; granted all land from Texas to California (minus the Gadsden Purchase) in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]]> 2018-12-12 17:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313934845 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313935484 (1848) Ended Mexican-American War; Mexico gave up all claims to land from Texas to California for $15 million]]> 2018-12-12 17:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313935484 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313936000 historical name for the region of the present day southwestern United States that was ceded to the U.S. by Mexico in 1848 under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the Mexican-American War. this massive land grab was significant because the question of extending slavery into newly acquired territories had become the leading national political issue.]]> 2018-12-12 17:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313936000 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313936483 Bill proposed after the Mexican War that stated that neither slavery no involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any territory gained from Mexico. It was never passed through both houses but it transformed the debate of slavery.]]> 2018-12-12 17:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313936483 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313937065 The Ostend Manifesto took place in 1854. A group of southerners met with Spanish officials in Belgium to attempt to get more slave territory. They felt this would balance out congress. They tried to buy Cuba but the Spanish would not sell it. Southerners wanted to take it by force and the northerners were outraged by this thought.]]> 2018-12-12 17:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313937065 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313937601 The Gadsden Purchase was the 1853 treaty in which the United States bought from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico. Southerners wanted this land in order to build southern transcontinental railroad, it also showed the American belief in Manifest Destiny. The heated debate over this issue in the Senate demonstrates the prevalence of sectional disagreement.]]> 2018-12-12 17:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313937601 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313938143 1820, The issue was that Missouri wanted to join the Union as a slave state, therefore unbalancing the Union so there would be more slave states then free states. The compromise set it up so that Maine joined as a free state and Missouri joined as a slave state. Congress also made a line across the southern border of Missouri saying except for the state of Missouri, all states north of that line must be free states or states without slavery.]]> 2018-12-12 17:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313938143 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313938772 According to the Missouri Compromise (1820), slavery was forbidden in the Louisiana territory north of the a certain latitude. This was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.]]> 2018-12-12 17:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313938772 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313939761 North: California admitted as a free state ; Texas gave up its claims to lands disputed with New Mexico ; Slave trade in D.C. was banned, but slavery was legal
South: Popular sovereignty in Mexican Cession lands ; Texas was paid $10 million for land lost ; A new, tougher Fugitive Slave Law of 1850]]> 2018-12-12 17:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/313939761 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314320567 came from the Compromise of 1850; paid federal commissioners were appointed and given authority to issue warrants, gather, posses and force citizens to help catch runaway slaves; the slaves could not testify in their own behalf, "Man-Stealing Law". shocked moderates into being anti slavery sites]]> 2018-12-13 16:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314320567 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314322143 A network of abolitionists that secretly helped slaves escape to freedom by setting up hiding places and routes to the North. Harriet Tubman is a key person to its success.]]> 2018-12-13 16:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314322143 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314322576 Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition ; intensified sectional conflict.]]> 2018-12-13 16:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314322576 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314323183 notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery. Seemingly a compromise, it was largely opposed by Northern abolitionists who feared it would promote the spread of slavery to the territories.]]> 2018-12-13 16:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314323183 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314323811 This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states ; Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery ; People who were pro-slavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began guerrilla warfare.]]> 2018-12-13 16:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314323811 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314324440 A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in KansasTerritory where new proslavery and antislavery constitutions competed.The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.]]> 2018-12-13 16:13:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314324440 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314325765 The Free-Soil Party was organized by anti-slavery men in the north, democrats who were resentful at Polk's actions, and some conscience Whigs. The Free-Soil Party was against slavery in the new territories. They also advocated federal aid for internal improvements and urged free government homesteads for settlers. This Free-Soil Party foreshadowed the emergence of the Republican party.]]> 2018-12-13 16:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314325765 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314327258 aka the American Party; major political force from 1854-1855; objective: to extend period of naturalization, undercut immigrant voting strengths, and keep aliens in their place]]> 2018-12-13 16:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314327258 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314328141 began in the 1850s, dedicated to keeping slavery out of the territories, but they championed a wider range of issues, including the further development of national roads, more liberal land distribution in the West, and increased protective tariffs ; Comprised of Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers, in defiance to the Slave Powers

]]> 2018-12-13 16:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314328141 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314329376 a slave who sued the U.S. for his freedom after living in free territories ; Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south]]> 2018-12-13 16:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314329376 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314329948 Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of open air debates on the issues of slavery and territories during the 1858 race for US senate ; Lincoln, a republican, believed that slavery was immoral and greedy ; While Douglas, a democrat, believed that slavery wasn’t immoral but believed states should have the right to choose in the matter ; Reflected the heart of the political matter which slavery had become]]> 2018-12-13 16:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314329948 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314331281 In 1859, militant abolitionist seized the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves. He was captured and executed.]]> 2018-12-13 16:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314331281 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314331786 formal separation from an alliance or federation]]> 2018-12-13 16:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314331786 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314332751 The northern half of USA]]> 2018-12-13 16:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314332751 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314332890 the southern half of the country]]> 2018-12-13 16:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314332890 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314335331 Jefferson Davis was the President of the Southern Confederate States from 1860 to 1865 after their succession from the Union. During this time, Davis struggled to form a solid government for the states to be governed by. Jefferson Davis worked hard with solidating the civil government and carrying out military operations]]> 2018-12-13 16:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/314335331 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315245925 George B. McClellan was a general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice]]> 2018-12-17 16:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315245925 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315246342 A Northern general who helped gain victory for the union. His first successful victories came at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson on the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers in February 1862. These victories opened a door for the Union to the rest of the south. Eventually Grant was given command of the Union forces attacking Vicksburg. This would be his greatest victory of the war. Grant was made General-in-Chief after several more impressive victories near Chattanooga. Grant's final victory came when he defeated General Robert E]]> 2018-12-17 16:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315246342 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315246707 The General of the Confederate troops; he was prosperous in many battles; was defeated at Antietam in 1862 when he retreated across the Potomac; this halt of Lee's troops justified Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation; he was defeated at Gettysburg by General Mead's Union troops; surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.]]> 2018-12-17 16:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315246707 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315247689 a cone-shaped bullet, made of soft lead, with a hollow base that would cause a rifle to shoot farther and more accurately than a musket]]> 2018-12-17 16:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315247689 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315247918 Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south]]> 2018-12-17 16:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315247918 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315249076 battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North. Known for being the bloodiest day in the war, and led to the Emancipation Proclamation]]> 2018-12-17 17:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315249076 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315249513 After victory of Antietam Lincoln announces on the first of 1863 all slaves in the rebelling states would be free. AIM: injure confederacy, threaten its property, heighten its dread, hurt its morale.]]> 2018-12-17 17:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315249513 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315250338 a court order that requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why they are holding the person]]> 2018-12-17 17:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315250338 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315250751 A faction of the democratic party formed after the death of Stephen Douglas. A vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates]]> 2018-12-17 17:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315250751 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315251213 Abraham Lincoln's oft-quoted speech, delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg battlefield. In the address, Lincoln framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty.]]> 2018-12-17 17:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315251213 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315251715 was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.]]> 2018-12-17 17:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315251715 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315765978 In 1862 the congress enacted this which subjected all white males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five to military service for three years.]]> 2018-12-19 04:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315765978 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766098 July 1863, north, just after the Battle at Gettysburg. Mobs of Irish working-class men and women roamed the streets for four days until federal troops suppressed them. They loathed the idea of being drafted to fight a war on behalf of slaves who, once freed, would compete with them for jobs. The riot lynched several African Americans and burned down black homes, businesses, and even an orphanage. It was the bloodiest riot in American history. Only the arrival of the federal troops halted the violence]]> 2018-12-19 04:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766098 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766157 The Greenback party (also called the National Greenback party) was organized in 1876 to campaign for expansion of the supply of paper money—"greenbacks"—first issued by the federal government in 1862 to help pay for the Civil War. The idea that maintaining a flexible supply of paper money served the interests of working people, whereas paper money backed by specie (hard money, like gold or silver) benefited only the rich, had been advanced by Edward Kellogg as early as 1841.]]> 2018-12-19 04:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766157 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766243 Women in Richmond confront Governor Letcher (Virginia) about high prices of food. He offered no solution, so they turned into an angry mob and start rioting. Jefferson Davis shows up, and the ringleaders get arrested.]]> 2018-12-19 04:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766243 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766279 1865
Abolition of slavery (involuntary servitude).
Congress has the power to enforce this via legislation.]]> 2018-12-19 04:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766279 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766377 Lincoln set up a process for political Reconstruction, as in reconstructing the state governments in the South so that Unionists were in charge rather than secessionists; full presidential pardons for most southerners who either took an oath of allegiance to the Union and the Constitution, a state government could be reestablished and accepted as legitimate by the US president as soon as at least 10 percent of the voters in the state took the loyalty oath, each southern state needed to rewrite Constitution to eliminate existence of slavery]]> 2018-12-19 04:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766377 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766421 Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner. Wanted to disenfranchise large numbers of Southern whites, protect black civil rights, confiscate the property of wealthy whites who aided the confederacy, and distribute the land among the freedmen.]]> 2018-12-19 04:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766421 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766496 (1864) A bill proposed by Radical Republican senators Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis that declared that the Reconstruction of the South was a legislative, not executive, matter. It was an attempt to weaken the power of president Lincoln.]]> 2018-12-19 04:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766496 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766531 The Black Codes were laws passed by southern states after the Civil War denying ex-slaves the complete civil rights enjoyed by whites and intended to force blacks back to plantations and impoverished lifestyles.]]> 2018-12-19 04:45:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766531 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766569 This federal bureau was an intervention by the federal government that aided ex-slaves during the transition from war to peace, and slavery to freedom. It was given direct federal funding and its agents were authorized to investigate the mistreatment of blacks.]]> 2018-12-19 04:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766569 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766640 vetoed by Johnson, passed by congress ;The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition ; gave African Americans citizenship and guaranteed them the same legal rights as white Americans]]> 2018-12-19 04:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766640 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766712 Defines U.S. citizenship: all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens]]> 2018-12-19 04:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766712 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766782 Each state required to guarantee equal protection to all people within its jurisdiction]]> 2018-12-19 04:49:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766782 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766796 Prevents states and local governments from denying rights without legislative or judicial process]]> 2018-12-19 04:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766796 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766880 (1867) act placing Southern states under military rule and barring former supporters of the Confederacy from voting.]]> 2018-12-19 04:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766880 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766978 a measure passed by Congress in 1867. It prohibited the president from dismissing any cabinet member or other federal officeholder whose appointment had required the consent of the Senate unless the Senate agreed to the dismissal. Johnson's violation of this act caused the impeachment crisis.]]> 2018-12-19 04:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315766978 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767015 to accuse a public official of misconduct in office. ]]> 2018-12-19 04:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767015 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767064 prohibited denial of suffrage by states to any citizen on basis of race, color, or previous servitude. enfranchised northern blacks who might vote republican]]> 2018-12-19 04:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767064 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767118 passed legislation that guaranteed access to transportation and hotels for all blacks; repealed blacks codes and removed restrictions on workers; prohibited racial discrimination in jury selection; became a watered down bill that the Supreme Court eventually struck down]]> 2018-12-19 04:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767118 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767183 A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes by buying up land from desperate Southerners and by manipulating new black voters to obtain lucrative government contracts.]]> 2018-12-19 04:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767183 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767250 local whites in the South who had resettled there and supported or entered Reconstruction governments; were ex-Whigs seeking to reenter politics; their beliefs accorded with the policies of congressional Reconstruction]]> 2018-12-19 04:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767250 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767278 secret domestic militant organizations in the United States, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists while hidden behind conical hats, masks and white robes. The KKK has a record of terrorism,[2] violence, and lynching to intimidate, murder, and oppress African Americans, Jews and other minorities and to intimidate and oppose Roman Catholics and labor unions.]]> 2018-12-19 04:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767278 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767332 The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy.]]> 2018-12-19 04:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767332 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767395 Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the Republican program in the South. Staged a major counterrevolution to "redeem" the south by taking back southern state governments. Their foundation rested on the idea of racism and white supremacy. Redeemer governments waged and aggressive assault on African Americans.]]> 2018-12-19 04:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767395 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767440 A rallying cry used by southern Democrats painting Reconstruction governments as illegitimate—imposed on the South—and themselves as the only party capable of restoring the South to "home rule." By 1876, northern Republicans were inclined to accept this claim.]]> 2018-12-19 04:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767440 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767533 Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government]]> 2018-12-19 05:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767533 jbkonopka27 https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767748 It withdrew federal soldiers from their remaining position in the South, enacted federal legislation that would spur industrialization in the South, appointed Democrats to patronage positions in the south, and appointed a Democrat to the president's cabinet.]]> 2018-12-19 05:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jbkonopka27/bpb5zyl8cy5t/wish/315767748