1314085502 | OO Howard | directed the Freedmen's Bureau | 0 | |
1314085503 | Tenure of Office Act | act that forbade the president to remove civil officials without the consent of the Senate | 1 | |
1314085504 | Command of the Army Act | act that prohibited the president from issuing military orders except through the commanding general of the army | 2 | |
1314085505 | scalawags | former Whigs in the South that never really cared for the Democrats, believed Republicanism was in their economic interest | 3 | |
1314085506 | carpetbaggers | Republicans that moved South after the war | 4 | |
1314085507 | sharecropping | A 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 | |
1314085508 | crop-lien system | System that allowed farmers to get more credit. They used harvested crops to pay back their loans. | 6 | |
1314085509 | Horatio Seymour | Democrat who lost to Ulysses S. Grant in the election of 1868 | 7 | |
1314085510 | Hamilton Fish | Secretary of State under Ulysses Grant who was highly respected and wasn't a complete screw up like every other member of the administration | 8 | |
1314085511 | Horace Greenly | candidate of the Liberal Republicans (those who opposed Grant) and also the Democrats' nomination | 9 | |
1314085512 | Credit Mobilier | French 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 VP | 10 | |
1314085513 | whiskey ring | some of the Treasury Secretary's officials and a group of distillers were cheating the government out of taxes | 11 | |
1314085514 | Indian Ring | Secretary of War William Belknap had accepted bribes to retain an Indian-post trader in office | 12 | |
1314532469 | Jay Cooke and Company | an investment banking firm that started the Panic of 1873 | 13 | |
1314532470 | Seward's Folly | term coiner by critics of _'s buying of Alaska | 14 | |
1314532471 | Nathan Bedford Forrest | formed the KKK | 15 | |
1316681959 | Compromise of 1877 | compromise 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 Railroad | 16 | |
1316681960 | redeemers | powerful, conservative oligarchy who controlled the South | 17 | |
1316681961 | Readjuster | movement in VA demanded that the state revise its debt payment procedures so as to make more money available for state services. | 18 | |
1316681962 | Henry Grady | editor of the Atlanta Constitution, desired to see industrialization in the South | 19 | |
1316681963 | Joel Chandler Harris | romanticized the "Lost Cause" and wrote "Uncle Remus" | 20 | |
1316681964 | James Duke | owner of the American Tobacco Company, created a huge tobacco monopoly over the processing of raw tobacco | 21 | |
1316681965 | convict- lease system | system where southern states leased gangs of convicted criminals to private interests as a cheap labor supply | 22 | |
1316681966 | Booker T Washington | chief black spokesperson on education, founder of Tuskegee Institute, wanted blacks to be like the white middle class | 23 | |
1316681967 | fence laws | laws that required farmers to fence their animals | 24 | |
1316681968 | Atlanta Compromise | philosophy of race relations of BTW, said blacks should attempt have economic gains and this was the key to being equal | 25 | |
1316681969 | Plessy v Ferguson | case that was the legal basis of segregation | 26 |
AP American History Chapter 15- Reconstruction and the New South Flashcards
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