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| 232852476 | swinging around the circle | the nickname for Andrew Johnson's series of political speeches in the congressional campaign of 1866 to get support for his Reconstruction plan | 0 | |
| 232852477 | Andrew Johnson | the man from Tennessee who was added as Lincoln's running-mate in 1864 to sew up the election by attracting War Democrats and the Border States. Got impeached. opposed radical republicans who passed reconstruction acts over his veto. Reconstruction plan disenfranchised wealthy Confederates, required repeal of secession laws, repudiated Confederate debts, and required ratification of the 13th amendment | 1 | |
| 232852478 | Civil Rights Bill | the 1866 legislation that conferred American citizenship upon blacks and attacked the Black Codes | 2 | |
| 232852479 | 14th amendment | the Constitutional amendment that conferred civil rights upon blacks, penalized states that denied blacks the vote, and repudiated the Confederate debt | 3 | |
| 232852480 | Force Acts | Congress responded to Southern terrorism (KKK) in 1870-1871 with legislation given this name | 4 | |
| 232852481 | Oliver O. Howard | the Union general who in 1865 became the first head of the Freedmen's Bureau | 5 | |
| 232852483 | Ku Klux Klan | the most common name for the secret organizations that arose during Reconstruction in the South to terrorize blacks and those who sought to give blacks more rights | 6 | |
| 232852484 | Military Reconstruction Act | the Congressional act of 1867 which swept away white state governments in the South and replaced them with five military districts commanded by Union generals | 7 | |
| 232852485 | Scalawags | the term for Southerners who collaborated with the military governments during Reconstruction | 8 | |
| 232852486 | 15th amendment | the amendment passed by Congress in 1869 which incorporated black suffrage into the Constitution | 9 | |
| 232852488 | Thaddeus Stevens | the crusty Pennsylvania congressman who led the radical Republicans during Reconstruction | 10 | |
| 232852489 | Carpetbaggers | the term for Northerners who went into the South during Reconstruction to make their fortune or to otherwise take advantage of military rule there | 11 | |
| 232852491 | William H. Seward | the Johnson secretary of state responsible in 1876 for their outstanding foreign relations achievement antislaveryite from new york, he stated that on the issue of slavery, there was a higher law than the constitution. senator of ny; antislavery and argued that god's moral law was higher than the constitution | 12 | |
| 232852492 | Charles Sumner | the Republican idealist who pushed for black suffrage during Reconstruction as a principle of black freedom and racial equality. radical republican against the slave power who insults andrew butler and subsequently gets caned by preston brooks from the 'crimes against kansas' speech | 13 | |
| 232852493 | Black Codes | the term for the laws passed by Southern legislatures in 1865-1866 which were designed to regulate the affairs of emancipated blacks | 14 | |
| 232852494 | Tenure of Office Act | the law used by the radicals to establish grounds to impeach Andrew Johnson | 15 | |
| 232852495 | Freedman's Bureau | the government agency created in 1865 to help ex-slaves cope with the problem of survival | 16 | |
| 232852496 | Radical Republicans | the extremists in Congress in the 1860s who wished to reconstruct the South with a rod of iron | 17 | |
| 232864748 | Alexander Stephens | he was the vice-president of the confederacy until 1865 when it was defeated and destroyed by the union. like the other leaders of the confederacy, he was under indictment for treason. | 18 | |
| 232864749 | 10 percent plan | a reconstruction plan that decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the union when 10 percent of voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the united states and pledged to abide by emancipation. the next step would be erection of a state gov. and then purified regime. a plan by abraham lincoln that would help restore the south by allowing a southern state to rejoin the union if at least 10% of it's voters swore loyalty to the union and if slavery were abolished. the plan also gave amnesty to some southerners. | 19 | |
| 232864750 | Wade Davis Plan | Iron-Clad Oath. State Suicide Theory. Conquered Provinces Position. Required 50% of the number of 1860 voters to take an "iron clad" oath of allegiance . Required a state constitutional convention before the election of state officials. Enacted specific safeguards of freedmen's liberties. | 20 | |
| 232864751 | Conquered provinces | part of wade davis plan. called for a military occupation of the south. this, they believed, was the only way to change the social order of the south. many in congress insisted that the seceders had indeed left the union had "committed suicide" as republican states- and therefore forfeited all their rights. they could be readmitted only as this on such conditions as congress should decree. | 21 | |
| 232864752 | Seward's folley | nickname for alaska. | 22 | |
| 232864753 | Ex parte Milligan | united states supreme court case that ruled suspension of habeas corpus by president abraham lincoln as constitutional | 23 |
