Chapter+4-2.+Congressional+Reconstruction

Chapter 4-2: Congressional Reconstruction

Key Words/Terms:
 * Freedmen's Bureau: aid millions of southerners left homeless and hungry by the war.
 * Civil Rights Act of 1866: first in history, declared everyone born in U.S was a citizen had full civil rights but didn't guarantee voting rights
 * Fourteenth Amendment: passed in 1866. requires states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people born or naturalized in the U.S
 * Reconstruction Acts; 1867; divided former confederacy with exception of already-reconstructed Tennessee into 5 military districts
 * Fifteenth Amendment : the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Key People:
 * Thadeus Stevens: Radical republican, insisted the AA's be given right to vote
 * Frederick Douglass: publicly supported AA's right to vote
 * Ulysses S.Grant: nominated General for president

Key Events: The Moderates Versus the Radicals Congress Versus Johnson The Radicals Come to Power Further Political Difficulties
 * Thadeus Stevens: Radical republican, insisted the AA's be given right to vote
 * Frederick Douglass: publicly supported AA's right to vote
 * Political leaders focused on suffrage of African Americans especially after the war. Policies were embraced like Reconstruction and Radical Republicanism
 * Freedmen's Bureau: aid millions of southerners left homeless and hungry by the war.
 * played a major role in providing education for African Americans
 * Civil Rights Act of 1866: first in history, declared everyone born in U.S was a citizen had full civil rights but didn't guarantee voting rights
 * Fourteenth Amendment: passed in 1866. requires states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people born or naturalized in the U.S
 * Reconstruction Acts; 1867; divided former confederacy with exception of already-reconstructed Tennessee into 5 military districts
 * Ulysses S.Grant: nominated General for president
 * African Americans vote and people wanted former Confederates out of government
 * Thadeus Stevens: Radical republican, insisted the AA's be given right to vote
 * Frederick Douglass: publicly supported AA's right to vote
 * Fourteenth Amendment: passed in 1866. requires states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people born or naturalized in the U.S