HIST 3240- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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Besides the civil war, reconstruction was most chaotic and important events in the south. Set the stage for the south for the century. Carpet baggers: northerners who came to the south to either take profits or to help. Radical republicans: belive in full equality of blacks, and they know that they will vote for republicnas, believe the south needs to be punished. 1 what is going to happen to ex confederates. 2 what is going to happen to freedmen. 1 confederates kept fighting because they refused to be in yankee prisons surrender terms were lenient confederates had to swear to never fight the u. s. , go home, obey laws (cid:1006) preside(cid:374)t joh(cid:374)so(cid:374)"s a(cid:373)(cid:374)esty de(cid:272)laratio(cid:374) Johnson had blanket amnesty for ex confederates, full citizenship rights are given back, excluded confederate generals, confederate government officials, anyone who owned more than ,000 property. 3 presidential reconstruction 3 part plan for south to rejoin. Civil rights act of 1866, went against black codes.
