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| 1144458549 | Radical Republican politicians who opposed Lincoln as President. | Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens | |
| 1144458550 | Politicians who opposed Lincoln's policy in office. | Radical Republicans | |
| 1144458551 | New segregation laws that replaced the slave laws in the Southern states, such including the illegality of suing white men if black. | Black Codes | |
| 1144458552 | A freemen black organization that suspended/stopped Southern black codes from white rule, but wasn't enough to affect state rule. | Freedman's Bureau | |
| 1144481641 | The first major law ever passed over a presidential veto. It made blacks U.S. citizens with the same civil rights as other citizens and authorized federal intervention in the states to ensure black rights in court. | Civil Rights Act of 1866 | |
| 1144481642 | Divided ten former Confederate states into five temporary military districts, each run by a Union general, and allowed voters - all black men, plus those white men who had not been disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment - to elect delegates to a state convention that would write a new state constitution granting black suffrage. It enfranchised blacks and disfranchised many ex-Confederates. It fulfilled a central goal of the Radical Republicans: to delay the readmission of former Confederate states until Republican governments could be established and thereby prevent an immediate rebel resurgence. | Reconstruction Act of 1867 | |
| 1144481643 | Andrew Johnson's bold move to governments - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Almost all southerners who took an oath of allegiance would receive a pardon and amnesty, and all their property except slaves would be restored. Oath takers could elect delegates to state conventions, which would provide for regular elections. Each state convention, Johnson later added, would have to proclaim the illegality of secession, repudiate state debts incurred when the state belonged to the Confederacy, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. | Presidential Reconstruction | |
| 1144481644 | Prohibited the president from removing civil officers without Senate consent and barred the president from issuing military orders except through the commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant, who could not be removed without the Senate's consent. | Tenure of Office Act | |
| 1144481645 | Northerners who came to the South seeking wealth and power. | Carpetbaggers | |
| 1144481646 | Predominately poor and ignorant southerners who sought to benefit form Republican rule | Scalawags | |
| 1144481647 | Prohibited the denial of suffrage by the states to any citizen on account of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." | Fifteenth Amendment | |
| 1144481648 | Women's rights leader who contended that the Fifteenth Amendment established an "aristocracy of sex" and increased women's disadvantages. | Susan B. Anthony | |
| 1144481649 | A "social club" formed by six young Confederate war veterans. The Klan performed elaborate rituals, wore hooded costumes, and had secret passwords. It sought to suppress black voting, reestablish white supremacy, and topple the Reconstruction governments. | Ku Klux Klan | |
| 1144481650 | A series of laws that were meant to protect Southern blacks. The First Enforcement Act protected black voters, but witnesses to violations were afraid to testify against vigilantes, and local juries refused to convict them. The Second Enforcement Act provided for federal supervision of southern elections, and the Third Enforcement Act, or Ku Klux Klan Act, strengthened punishments for those who prevented blacks from voting. It also empowered the president to use federal troops to enforce the law and to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in areas that he declared in insurrection. | Enforcement Acts (KKK Act) | |
| 1144481651 | Proposed by Charles Sumner, it was designed to desegregate schools, transportation facilities, juries, and public accommodations. But in 1883, in the Civil Rights Cases, the Supreme Court invalidated the law; the Fourteenth Amendment did not prohibit discrimination by individuals, the Court ruled, only that perpetrated by the state. | Civil Rights Act of 1875 | |
| 1144481652 | A system where landowners subdivided large plantations into farms of thirty to fifty acres, which they rented to freedmen under annual leases for a share of the crop, usually half. Sharecropping forced planters to relinquish daily control over the labor of freedmen but helped to preserve the planter elite. | sharecropping | |
| 1144481653 | Republicans who endorsed economic doctrines such as free trade, the gold standard, and the law of supply and demand. | Liberal Republicans | |
| 1144481654 | The Liberal Republican presidential candidate who ran against Grant. | Horace Greely | |
| 1144481655 | "Easy Money" that was used to cover up debts. | Greenbacks | |
| 1144481656 | The political party that opposed the silver-based currency and fought to keep greenbacks in circulation. | Greenback Party | |
| 1144481657 | A rise of armed Mississippi whites to impress the law back on blacks. | Mississippi Plan | |
| 1144481658 | The return of the Democratic Party to power. | "Redemption" | |
| 1144481659 | Involved a business monopoly rather than freedmen's rights, but they provided an opportunity to interpret the Fourteenth amendment narrowly. In 1869, the Louisiana legislature had granted a monopoly over the New Orleans slaughterhouse business to one firm and closed down all other slaughterhouses in the interest of public health. The excluded butchers brought suit. The state had deprived them of their lawful occupation without due process of law, they claimed, and such action violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana legislature the Fourteenth Amendment, declared the Court, protected only the rights of national citizenship, such as the right of interstate travel or the right to federal protection on the high seas. It did not protect those basic civil rights that fell to citizens by virtue of their state citizenship. | Slaughterhouse Cases | |
| 1144481660 | Freedmen who migrated from the South to the North and Midwest for better opportunities. | "exodusters" | |
| 1144481661 | Allowed Rutherford Hayes to become the President of the United States with the condition that he would remove federal troops in the South. | Compromise of 1877 |
