Reconstruction

2. Wanted to change South (economically and socially)using federal power
5. officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude nationwide, except as a punishment for a crime
7. Northerners who brought everything they owned in carpet bags tocome South for money and power
8. Wanted to restrain states from abridging citizens’rights but avoid federal government in people’s lives
10. Divided South into 5 military districts;Each district under command of a general;20K troops sent to enforce federal power; Pushed by the Radical Republicans
12. "Seward's Folly" Russians wanted to sell Alaska to US to strengthen US against Russia’s rival, Britain
13. Required president get approval of the Senate before removing appointees that had required approval of Senate
14. Blacks Rented land from owners, borrowed money for seed and tools, and paid off rent and loans at harvest time(lead to debt; unsuccessful)
15. A state could be reintegrated into Union when 10% of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 took an oath of allegiance to US
16. War Democrats & never attended school

1. 50% of a state’s voters had to take oath of allegiance for states to be readmitted to Union
3. Purpose to provide food, clothing, medical care, education to freedmen and whites
4. Gave civil rights (including citizenship) to blacks
5. prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a U.S. citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude
6. all federal troops left South as part of a “deal"; lead to the ignoring of 14th and 15th amendments
9. Designed to regulate lives of freed blacks
11. Passed by Congress to use federal troops to put down Klan