HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reconstruction Era, Reconstruction Acts, Equal Protection Clause
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Keywords: homestead act, radical reconstruction, 14th amendment (1868) Declares citizenship to every person born or naturalized within the united states, despite any racial difference. Second initiative to expand the meaning of freedom, declaring that voting couldn"t be prohibited on the basis of race: reconstruction act of 1867, ku klux klan (founded in 1866 in tennessee) Lead by planters, merchants, and democrats that committed numerous acts of racial targeted violence and campaigns of terror that ignited federal public investigations. Majority were already naturally born; slave trade was abolished in 1808. The confederate states, excluding tennessee, refused to ratify. The union established military states in the south commanded by the. Union to enforce the ratification and the allowance for freedmen to vote: the 15th amendment passes. A number of blacks assume political offices following ratification: biracial democracy ensues on two levels: the federal with radical.
