HIST-1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reconstruction Era, Carpetbagger, Scalawag
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History 102 test 1 ids: carpetbaggers, political group after reconstruction, name given by white southerners, Helped answer the question of how ex confederates would be treated reconstruction. Good (marriage and court) and bad (curfews, restricted voting). Johnson"s amnesty proclamation to put the union back together. Attempt to define status of blacks: during congressional reconstruction, (cid:498)states cannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law(cid:499), first time fed govt told the states what they couldn"t do. Tilden (d southern whites), hayes (r southern blacks). Tilden won: after presidential reconstruction failed, attempt to gain equal rights for blacks with civil rights act of 1866, ratification of the 14th amendment, election of 1876, during congressional reconstruction. Election between: part of congressional reconstruction, to counteract the black codes and, civil rights act of 1866 achieve equal rights for blacks, 14th amendment, congressional reconstruction, samuel j. tilden vs r. b.
