HIST 2057 : All Notes Covering Exam 1
Document Summary
Property: constitutional, is a slave a whole person instead of 3/5, after south was defeated, are they states or unconquered territories, if they left the union and they are unconquered congress controls areas seceded into the union. Radical reaction: radicals wanted anyone involved in the confederacy out of politics- vetoed by lincoln, no states can be reconstructed until after the war, have to take an oath of allegiance to government. Radical counter-offensive: go after johnson and throw him out of office, 14th amendment, radicals tried to take military authority away from commander and chief. Elections of 1868: 150,000 whites lost the vote (whites who had federal jobs in the south, 700,000 freedmen were given the vote, democrats put up wartime governor of ny who was against radicals. Battle for control of reconstruction: carpetbaggers came down to south for opportunity (ppl from the north) Industrialization- developing the capacity to make the machines that make the products(capital goods)
