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| 46216105 | Reconstruction | What was the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union? | 46216105 | |
| 46216106 | Radical | What political "label" was extreme and believed in revolutionary and total change? | 46216106 | |
| 46216107 | Liberal | What political "label" was less extreme and believed in reform and that change is good? | 46216107 | |
| 46216108 | Moderate | What political "label" like slow and gradual change and would only change if they had to? | 46216108 | |
| 46216109 | Conservative | What political "label" would not change and wanted to stick to the status quo? | 46216109 | |
| 46216110 | 1865-1877 | Years of Reconstruction | 46216110 | |
| 46216111 | Abraham Lincoln | President that started Reconstruction | 46216111 | |
| 46216112 | Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's Vice President and became the next President | 46216112 | |
| 46216113 | Charles Sumner | Mass Senator that wanted to end slavery in the south | 46216113 | |
| 46216114 | Thadeus Stevens | PA Representative that believed slavery was evil and that hated the south | 46216114 | |
| 46216115 | Nathan Forrest | Started the KKK | 46216115 | |
| 46216116 | protection, political participation, education, and land | Four things in the African-American's definition of freedom | 46216116 | |
| 46216117 | they wanted their own self government, to restore traditional "aristocracy", maintain white supremacy, and freedom from Northern control | White southerner's definition of freedom? | 46216117 | |
| 46216118 | Oliver O. Howard | Director of the Freedmen's Bureau | 46216118 | |
| 46216119 | to ease the transition from slavery to freedom | Purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau | 46216119 | |
| 46216120 | schools, land distribution | What was the greatest achievement and greatest failure of the Freedmen's Bureau? | 46216120 | |
| 46216121 | Lincoln and Johnson | Believed that the south were still states because secession is not legal and that it was just a "rebellion of individuals" | 46216121 | |
| 46216122 | commander-in-chief and power to pardon | What two reasons did the executive branch have for the authority to reconstruct? | 46216122 | |
| 46216123 | power to govern all territories and organize & admit new states | Two reasons did the legislative branch have for the authority to reconstruct? | 46216123 | |
| 46216126 | Lincoln | What plan was called the 10% Plan? | 46216126 | |
| 46216127 | Lincoln's and the Wade-Davis | What plan(s) protected the Republican party? | 46216127 | |
| 46216128 | Wade-Davis | What plan did Lincoln pocket-veto? | 46216128 | |
| 46216129 | Wade-Davis and Johnson | What plans repudiated the debt and secession, and had a provisional government? | 46216129 | |
| 46216130 | Johnson | What plan had no set majority to take the loyalty oath, and had states ratify the 13th Amendment? | 46216130 | |
| 46216131 | Lincoln and Johnson | What plans granted amnesty to everyone except high leaders of the confederacy and anyone who abused P.O.W.s? | 46216131 | |
| 46216132 | Lincoln | What plan had 10% majority to take the loyalty oath to reorganize state governments? | 46216132 | |
| 46216133 | elected numerous ex-confederate leaders to hold political offices, the Black Codes were adopted, Race riots occured, the KKK was formed, and states refused to ratify the 14th Amendment | What did the southern states do that drove moderate republicans to side more with the radicals? | 46216133 | |
| 46216134 | keep African-Americans in an inferior position--socially, economically, and politically | Purpose of the Black Codes | 46216134 | |
| 46216135 | defined citizenship, gave civil rights, and est. Fed. as protector | What were the 3 main points of the 14th Amendment? | 46216135 | |
| 46216137 | to accuse | What does impeach mean? | 46216137 | |
| 46216138 | the House of Representatives | Who begins the process of impeachment by impeaching the president? | 46216138 | |
| 46216139 | the Senate | Who tries the president of impeachment and needs a 2/3 majority vote to remove him? | 46216139 | |
| 46216140 | Chief Justice | Who presides over the impeachment trial ? | 46216140 | |
| 46216141 | treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors | What three things can any civil official be impeached for? | 46216141 | |
| 46216142 | Edwin Stanton | Who was the Tenure of Office Act passed to protect? | 46216142 | |
| 46216143 | Tenure of Office Act | What Act said that the president could not remove any government official that was appointed and approved by Congress earlier without Congress approval? | 46216143 | |
| 46216144 | one | How many votes saved Johnson from being impeached from office? | 46216144 | |
| 46216145 | it preserved the Constitutional principle of checks and balances, Radical influence declined, and it weaked presidency for many years | What was the significance of the Impeachment trial? | 46216145 | |
| 46216146 | carpetbaggers, scalawags, and Freedmen | The coalition of what 3 groups made up the Radical Regimes? | 46216146 | |
| 46216147 | carpetbaggers | Who were Northern whites that went to the South to gain business or political status? | 46216147 | |
| 46216148 | scalawags | White southerners who supported the Reconstruction governments? | 46216148 | |
| 46216150 | sharecropping | What type of farming did landowners supply all of the tools, seed, and equipment; the cropper provides labor; rent/labor was paid with a share of the crop; and there was a lot of control by the landowner? | 46216150 | |
| 46216153 | South was more democratic than it had ever been, the expansion of education, economic advancements for Blacks, rebuilt family structure, created black institutes, and the 14th and 15th Amendments were established | What were the 6 achievements of Radical Reconstruction? | 46216153 | |
| 46216154 | segregated system emerged | What was the negative aspect of Radical Reconstruction? | 46216154 | |
| 46216155 | Grant | Who was the Union's "hero of the Civil War"? | 46216155 | |
| 46216156 | Grant | Which US president was very incompetent and corrupt? | 46216156 | |
| 46216157 | Credit Mobilier, "Whiskey Ring", and "Indian Ring" | 3 Grant Scandals | 46216157 | |
| 46216158 | Credit Mobilier | What scandal involved greedy corporate directors and politicians, including Thomas Durant, that cheated taxpayers and shareholders out of millions of dollars in building the transcontinental railroad? | 46216158 | |
| 46216159 | "Whiskey Ring" | Which scandal defrauded the government of over a million dollars in revenue taxes? | 46216159 | |
| 46216160 | "Indian Ring" | scandal involved the Sec. of War taking bribes to retain a certain Indian post trader's contract | 46216160 | |
| 46216162 | greenbacks | Paper money not backed by gold or silver called | 46216162 | |
| 46216163 | inflation | What is it called when the price of goods goes up and the value of money goes down; when there is a lot of money in circulation? | 46216163 | |
| 46216164 | deflation | What is it called when the value of money is high and the price of goods is less; there is a limited amount of money in circulation? | 46216164 | |
| 46216165 | debtors | Who preferred inflationary policies because it was easier to pay off debts? | 46216165 | |
| 46216166 | creditors | Who preferred deflationary policies because tight money has a higher value? | 46216166 | |
| 46216170 | National Greenback Party | What was formed to continue to fight for an inflationary policy? | 46216170 | |
| 46216171 | William Seward | Who was the Sec. of State who purchased Alaska for the US? | 46216171 | |
| 46216172 | fur trade and it was a strategic outpost on the Northern Pacific | Why was Alaska purchased? | 46216172 | |
| 46216174 | Treaty of Washington | What treaty settled the Alabama Claims by making Britain pay $15.5 million in damages? | 46216174 | |
| 46216175 | Southern Redemption | What was the period of time when the traditional Southern Democrats reclaimed control over the state governments called? | 46216175 | |
| 46216176 | North tired of Reconstruction, Southern Resistance, and the disputed election of 1876 | What were the 3 reasons for the Southern Redemption | 46216176 | |
| 46216177 | Social Darwinism | What is the belief that if someone is poor, it is their own fault and that it is the "survival of the fittest"? | 46216177 | |
| 46216178 | Hayes | Who one the Presidential election between Tilden and Hayes? | 46216178 | |
| 46216179 | Compromise of 1877 | What officially ended Reconstruction | 46216179 | |
| 46216180 | the Presidency | Under the Compromise of 1877, what did the Republicans get? | 46216180 | |
| 46216181 | Compromise of 1877 | As a result of what, the Democrats got the removal of all federal troops, Southerners in Hayes's cabinet, control of patronage in the south, and federal money for infrastructure? | 46216181 | |
| 46216182 | Emancipation Proclamation | What did Lincoln write that helped free the slaves in the south? | 46216182 | |
| 46216183 | 13th Amendment | Which amendment freed the slaves? | 46216183 | |
| 46216184 | 15th Amendment | Which amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all males? | 46216184 | |
| 46216185 | April 14, 1865 | When was President Lincoln assassinated? | 46216185 | |
| 46216186 | John Wilkes Booth | Who assassinated President Lincoln? | 46216186 | |
| 46216187 | Enforcement Act | What Act punished the KKK and protected the African-Americans by reinstating military rule where the blacks were being denied their rights? | 46216187 | |
| 46216188 | Atlanta Compromise | speech given by Booker T. Washington that outlined his ideas concerning African American self-improvement through vocational education to achieve economic goals, seen as accomodation | 46216188 | |
| 46216189 | Booker T. Washington | founded the Tusegee Institute and NAACP-national association for the advacement of colored people | 46216189 | |
| 46216190 | Plessy v. Ferguson | supreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal | 46216190 | |
| 46216191 | Redeemers | Southern political movement that sought and did return "home rule" to the southern states during reconstruction | 46216191 | |
| 46216487 | crop-lien | Southern farmers accept loans of goods/material for a share of their crop | 46216487 | |
| 46216488 | KKK | Terrorist group of White Supremacists in South | 46216488 | |
| 46216489 | Grantism | a common term for corruption and greed during grant's presidency | 46216489 | |
| 46245704 | lynching | hanging a person to death by mob action without due process of law | 46245704 | |
| 46245705 | literacy tests | literacy requirement (understanding of the constitution) as a condition of voting, used to disenfranchise freedmen | 46245705 | |
| 46245706 | poll tax | tax per person payable as a requirement to vote | 46245706 | |
| 46245707 | Henry Grady | editor of Atlanta Constitution; leading advocate of a "New South;" promoted industrial development with Atlanta as its center of growth. | 46245707 |
