Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 22 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.
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| 1156017953 | Exodusters | Blacks who left the South for Kansas and elsewhere during Reconstruction | 1 | |
| 1156017954 | Civil Rights Bill of 1866 | First Congressional attempt to guarantee Black rights in the South, passed over Johnson's veto | 2 | |
| 1156017955 | Thaddeus Stevens | Leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives | 3 | |
| 1156017956 | Tenure of Office Act | Constitutionally questionable law whose violation by President Johnson formed the basis for his impeachment | 4 | |
| 1156017957 | 13th Amendment | Amendment that abolished the institution of slavery in the United States | 5 | |
| 1156017958 | 14th Amendment | Amendment that granted civil rights to all Americans | 6 | |
| 1156017959 | 15th Amendment | Amendment that gave all African American males the right to vote | 7 | |
| 1156017960 | William Seward | Secretary of State who arranged an initially unpopular, but later valuable land deal in 1867 | 8 | |
| 1156017961 | Carpetbaggers | Individuals who moved to the South from the North to run Southern governments | 9 | |
| 1156017962 | Scalawags | White southerners who supported the ideas of the radical Republicans in the House of Representatives | 10 | |
| 1156017963 | Freedmen's Bureau | Federal agency that greatly assisted Blacks educationally, but failed in other aid efforts | 11 | |
| 1156017964 | Ku Klux Klan | Secret organization that intimidated Blacks and worked to restore White supremacy in the South | 12 | |
| 1156017965 | Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 | Laws designed to stamp out KKK terrorism in the South | 13 | |
| 1156017966 | Benjamin Wade | President Pro-Tempore of the Senate who hoped to become President of the US after Johnson's impeachment | 14 | |
| 1156017967 | Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Law that was passed in 1867 that divided the South into 5 military districts | 15 | |
| 1156017968 | Union League | Leading Black political organization during the period of Reconstruction | 16 | |
| 1156017969 | Sharecropping | System in which slaves would rent land and pay by growing crops | 17 | |
| 1156017970 | Black Codes | Series of Southern laws designed to discriminate and limit the rights of newly freed Blacks in the South | 18 | |
| 1156017971 | 10% Plan | Plan instituted by Abraham Lincoln that required 10% of Southern voters to swear allegiance to the US | 19 | |
| 1156017972 | Wade-Davis Bill | Bill instituted by the Radical Republicans that required 50% of Southern voters to swear allegiance to the US; pocket-vetoed by Lincoln. | 20 |
