Unit I Flashcards
Chapters 17 and 18
#1
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Black codes
Laws passed by states and municipalities
denying many rights of citizenship to free
black people before the Civil War.
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#2
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Caminetti Act
1893 act giving the state the power to
regulate the mines.
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#3
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Carpetbaggers
Northern transplants to the South, many
of whom were Union soldiers who stayed
in the South after the war.
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#4
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Civil Rights Bill
1866 Act that gave full citizenship to
African Americans.
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#5
Compromise of 1877
Review
The Congressional settling of the 1876
election, which installed Republican
Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House
and gave Democrats control of all state
governments in the South.
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Congressional Reconstruction
Review
Name given to the period 1867-1870
when the Republican-dominated
Congress controlled Reconstruction-era
policy.
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#7
Dawes Severalty Act
Review
An 1887 law terminating tribal ownership
of land and allotting some parcels of land
to individual Indians with the remainder
opened for white settlement.
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#8
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Edmunds Act
1882 act that effectively disfranchised
those who believed in or practiced
polygamy and threatened them with fines
and imprisonment.
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#9
Edmunds-Tucker Act
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1887 act that destroyed the temporal
power of the Mormon Church by
confiscating all assets over $50,000 and
establishing a federal commission to
oversee all elections in the Utah territory.
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#10
Review
Field Order 15
Order by General William T. Sherman in
January 1865 to set aside abandoned land
along the southern...