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AP American History Chapter 15- Reconstruction and the New South Flashcards

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1314085502OO Howarddirected the Freedmen's Bureau0
1314085503Tenure of Office Actact that forbade the president to remove civil officials without the consent of the Senate1
1314085504Command of the Army Actact that prohibited the president from issuing military orders except through the commanding general of the army2
1314085505scalawagsformer Whigs in the South that never really cared for the Democrats, believed Republicanism was in their economic interest3
1314085506carpetbaggersRepublicans that moved South after the war4
1314085507sharecroppingA system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.5
1314085508crop-lien systemSystem that allowed farmers to get more credit. They used harvested crops to pay back their loans.6
1314085509Horatio SeymourDemocrat who lost to Ulysses S. Grant in the election of 18687
1314085510Hamilton FishSecretary of State under Ulysses Grant who was highly respected and wasn't a complete screw up like every other member of the administration8
1314085511Horace Greenlycandidate of the Liberal Republicans (those who opposed Grant) and also the Democrats' nomination9
1314085512Credit MobilierFrench construction company who helped build the Union Pacific Railroad, used their positions to steer large fraudulent contracts to their construction company, many congressmen had stock in them and Grants VP10
1314085513whiskey ringsome of the Treasury Secretary's officials and a group of distillers were cheating the government out of taxes11
1314085514Indian RingSecretary of War William Belknap had accepted bribes to retain an Indian-post trader in office12
1314532469Jay Cooke and Companyan investment banking firm that started the Panic of 187313
1314532470Seward's Follyterm coiner by critics of _'s buying of Alaska14
1314532471Nathan Bedford Forrestformed the KKK15
1316681959Compromise of 1877compromise that said Hayes would have a Southerner in his cabinet, the Dems got control of federal patronage in their areas, generous internal improvements, and federal aid to the TX and Pacific Railroad16
1316681960redeemerspowerful, conservative oligarchy who controlled the South17
1316681961Readjustermovement in VA demanded that the state revise its debt payment procedures so as to make more money available for state services.18
1316681962Henry Gradyeditor of the Atlanta Constitution, desired to see industrialization in the South19
1316681963Joel Chandler Harrisromanticized the "Lost Cause" and wrote "Uncle Remus"20
1316681964James Dukeowner of the American Tobacco Company, created a huge tobacco monopoly over the processing of raw tobacco21
1316681965convict- lease systemsystem where southern states leased gangs of convicted criminals to private interests as a cheap labor supply22
1316681966Booker T Washingtonchief black spokesperson on education, founder of Tuskegee Institute, wanted blacks to be like the white middle class23
1316681967fence lawslaws that required farmers to fence their animals24
1316681968Atlanta Compromisephilosophy of race relations of BTW, said blacks should attempt have economic gains and this was the key to being equal25
1316681969Plessy v Fergusoncase that was the legal basis of segregation26

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