[HY 104] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (38 pages long!)
30 Mar 2017
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Reconstruction era: working out what the country will become for freed women, men, & slaves, a sustained change in politics and economics. Defined & pursued freedom: mobility-ability to leave/move, unite with family, move rural to urban, changing of names, surnames from their master changed to own name of choice, ex. Johnson=impeached, not convicted by 1 vote: state conventions to re-enter into the union, giving of real political power to freed men/women, ulysses s. grant=president, 15th amendment-forbids denying a vote based on race/servitude, republicans pull back from reconstruction. Democrats of the south: literacy tests, campaign of terror & violence, poll taxes. Ku klux klan: starts in tennessee, white republicans, black people, elite leaders, attack & murder, wave of violence. Mississippi plan: any means to win the election, violence toward republicans & african-americans, keep order in streets, gra(cid:374)t does(cid:374)"t se(cid:374)d troops, passes state constitution-other states follow, gain democratic control of states for election (turn people away from polls)
