History

50% must admit to never supporting the confederacy

Good:
Right to marry
Right to bring lawsuits

Bad:
Can't serve on juries
Can only work as farmhands

Abolishes slavery

Souther states are conquered, they are part of the union but bare no constitutional rights

Attempt to leave the union was act of political suicide, leaving them with no rights

First military reconstuction act, march 1867
14th amendment
15th amendment

No legal state gov in south
South divided in military occupation districts
to get representation in congress, states must
draft a new state constitution granting black suffrage
ratify the 14th amendment

First military reconstuction act, march 1867

Designed to:
Promote black equality
restrict state power
restrcict political and economic power of former confederates

Provisions:
All born in US are citizens
No depriving any person of due process or equal protection of the laws
Former confederates banned from office-holding, without congress approval

14th Amendment

Prevents both governments frmo denying or abirging any citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Tenure of Office Act March 1867
Command of the Army Act

Prevent Johnson from interfering in congrsesional reconstruction
Required president to issue all military orders through the general of the army, who cannot be removed without senate approval

1868
Fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Acquitted by a single vote in senate trial

Johnson impeached for

Civil Service Reform
National Regulation of Industry
Fighting Monopolies
Silver/Gold money standard

Spoils systems
Stalwarts (pro spoils) vs Half-Breeds (anti-spoils)

James Garfield and Chester Arthur win presidency

Charles Guiteau assassinates Garfield

Guiteau causes Pendleton Act of 1883 to pass
Creates merit-based examinations for prospective civil service employees

Civil Service Reform

Grows out of granger movement,
Supreme court says state gove cannot regulate interstate commerce
Interstate Commerce Act 1887 is born due to this

Article 1 Section 8 is important
Creates the federal interstate commerce commission
national regulation of industry

Designed to prevent monopoly, not enforced until 1900s
Used by management to break pullman strike in 1894

Farmers wanted silver and gold backed currency
Industrialist wanted gold only
led to Sherman Silver Purchase act 1890

Permitted coinage of some silver but not as much as they wanted

US industrial output exceeds value of agricultural output

Wounded Knee Massacre (closing of the continental frontier)

Sherman Antitrust Act

Sherman Silver Purchase Act

McKinley Tariff of 1890, average 50% tariff

Federal census of 1890 indicated that there was no longer a frontier

Alfred Thayer Mahan writes a book about the influence of the sea

1890 Important events (7)

Tariff on Cuban sugar, damaged cuban economy and led to revolution