1863- 1877
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| 9759034248 | Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | - full presidential pardons would be granted to confederates who took an oath of alligance to the Union and the constitution - state gov't could be reestablished if 10 percent of voters in the state took the oath | 0 | |
| 9759034249 | Wade Davis Bill | Required 50% of voters of state take oath and allowed only non-confederates to vote for new state constitution. Lincoln pocket vetoed this | 1 | |
| 9759034250 | Freedman's Bureau | provided: food, clothing, jobs, medical care, schools for former slaves and the poor whites. Greatest success in education | 2 | |
| 9759034251 | Johnson's Reconstruction proclamation | Disenfranchisement of: - all former leaders or office holders of the confederacy - confederates with more than $20,000 in taxable property But he gave individual pardons | 3 | |
| 9759034252 | Black Codes | 1) prohibited blacks from renting land or borrowing money to buy land 2) places freedmen into semi bondage by making them sign work contracts 3) prohibited blacks from testifying against whites in court | 4 | |
| 9759034253 | Civil Rights Act of 1866 | Pronounced all African Americans to be US citizens | 5 | |
| 9759034254 | 14th Amendment | - declared all people born or naturalized in the US were citizens - states must respect rights of citizens and provide them with "equal protection of laws" and "due process of law" - former confederate leaders not allowed to hold office | 6 | |
| 9759034255 | Election of 1866 | Johnson's tactic - "swing around the circle" attacked his opponents Republicans - "waving the bloody shirt" reminded ppl of the war - Johnson won | 7 | |
| 9759034256 | Reconstruction Act of 1867 | - placed South under military occupation - to get back into Union states had to ratify 14th amendment | 8 | |
| 9759034257 | Tenure of Office Act | prohibited the president from removing government officials without the Senate's approval - Johnson believed it to be unconstitutional so he dismissed Stanton - the House impeached him | 9 | |
| 9759034258 | Election of 1868 | Grant (Rep) defeats Seymore (Dem) | 10 | |
| 9759034259 | 15th Amendment | States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race. | 11 | |
| 9759034260 | Civil Rights Act of 1875 | - guarantee equal accommodations in public places - prohibited courts from excluding blacks from juries - poorly enforced | 12 | |
| 9759034261 | Scalawags | Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction | 13 | |
| 9759034262 | carptetbagger | a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War. | 14 | |
| 9759034263 | Accomplishments of republicans | - universal male suffrage - women property rights - debt relief - internal improvements - institutions (hospitals) - education | 15 | |
| 9759034264 | Failures of republicans | - waste full spending - took bribes | 16 | |
| 9759034265 | Black communities | - wanted autonomy from whites - independent churches - black colleges - migrate to completely black cities | 17 | |
| 9759034266 | Sharecropping | - basically new form of slavery - blacks sign contracts with landowners and farm their land for usually half the profit | 18 | |
| 9759034267 | Credit Mobilier Affair | Insiders have stock to Congress members so they wouldn't investigate the profits they were making off the transcontinental railroad | 19 | |
| 9759034268 | Whiskey Ring | Fed revenue agents conspired with liquor industry to defraud gov't of a lot of money. Grant didn't personally profit, but this still tarnished his presidency | 20 | |
| 9759034269 | Tweed Ring | a corrupt political organization that controlled New York City government during the gilded age. | 21 | |
| 9759034270 | Election of 1872 | Grant (Rep) defeats Horace Greely. Grants second term. | 22 | |
| 9759034271 | Panic of 1873 | - over-speculation by financiers and overbuilding by industry and railroads led to this - people wanted greenbacks - Grant vetoed bill for them | 23 | |
| 9759034272 | Redeemers | - southern conservatives who took control of state governments - they believe in states rights, reduced taxes, reduced domestic spending, and white supremacy | 24 | |
| 9759034273 | The KKK | - group of southern whites that formed together to intimidate blacks and white reformers - to try to stop then the Force Acts were passed | 25 | |
| 9759034274 | Amnesty Act of 1872 | gave forgiveness to former Confederates and Whites in the South and allowed them to vote again | 26 | |
| 9759034275 | Election of 1876 | Hayes (Rep) defeats Tilden (Dem) and was determined by a special electoral commission | 27 | |
| 9759034276 | The Compromise of 1877 | Democrats would allow Hayes to be president if he would: - end fed support for Republicans in South, remove troops - build southern transcontinental rr | 28 |
