235754745 | Pardon | To excuse | 0 | |
235754746 | Tenure of office act | President can not hire or fire a government official with out the the approval of congress. | 1 | |
235754747 | Radical republicans. | Republicans who wanted total reconstruction of south and grant the African Americans civil rights. | 2 | |
235754748 | Aberham Lincoln. | He was the president during the civil war and reconstruction. HE was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth. | 3 | |
235754749 | John Wilkes Booth | He was a southern Sympathizer and he was an actor. This is the man that killed Lincoln. | 4 | |
235754750 | Andrew Johnson. | He was the president after Lincoln was killed. Before Lincoln was killed he was his vice President. Forced to be president. First president to be impeached | 5 | |
235754751 | Edwin Stanton. | He was Johnson's secratary of war. He gets fired by Johnson. He was also a friend of the Radical Republican's. | 6 | |
235754752 | Rutherford B. Hayes. | He runs for president against Tilden and wins because he got the electoral vote. | 7 | |
235754753 | Freed blacks. | They would go to there family's and get legally Married. get a job/education and they would spend lots of time in a church. | 8 | |
235754754 | Scalawags | white Southern Republicans that opposed secession; many were poor and sent to the south as trader. | 9 | |
235754755 | Carpetbaggers | Northern republicans who fled to the south to profit from the south's Mmsery; came to make money off of the damaged south. | 10 | |
235754756 | impeach | to remove a government offcial from the office | 11 | |
235754757 | sharecroppers | farm a portion of the planters land. Planter would provide food, water, and shelter. the sharecropper paid his rent with a large portion of crop that he had raised. Sharecropper always in the cycle of debt. | 12 | |
235754758 | Tenant farming | pay rent for land and they farmed the land. They made maybe A small profit. | 13 | |
235754759 | The election of 1868 | close race with Ulysses S. Grant and Horatio Seymour. | 14 | |
235754761 | Ulysses S. Grant | He ran against Seymour in the election of 1868 adn he won. He was the Governor of New York before he ran. | 15 | |
235754763 | Horatio Seymour | Ran against Grant and lost | 16 | |
235754764 | 13th amendment | This was the outlaw of slavery in the North and south. | 17 | |
235754766 | 14th amendment | This got rid of the 3/5 clause and made the blacks a whole person. | 18 | |
235754768 | 15th amendment | the right to vote for the freed blacks. | 19 | |
235754770 | Changes in the south | After the war there were a lot of changes in the south. All of the houses were burned down there were no more railroads, livestock was all killed. | 20 | |
235754772 | Civil Rights Act | This act was passed so that the freedman can have equal rights with the white men | 21 | |
235754774 | Black codes. | These were to resrict the freedman's rights. They had a curfew , and they were punished if they were not working. And if you quit in the middle of a contract you loose all of the money you have earned. | 22 | |
235754776 | 10 % plan | this was to pardon ant Confed. who swore allegiance to the Union. Each state could hold a constitutional convention after 10 % of voters had sworn to the Union. then States were part of the Union. | 23 | |
235754777 | KKK | This stands for Ku Klux Klan. They were a secerat white society who did not approve of the Freed blacks. They wanted to spread white superiority. They wold go around anf ind freed blacks and then they would beat them and hang them. A sign of the clan is a burning cross. The Klan still exsites today!! | 24 | |
235754779 | White League | They were very simalliar to the klan except they were not as mean to the blacks and they do not exsit any more. Back then the Klan and the White league were very close. | 25 | |
235754781 | Samuel Tilden | He ran against Hayes in the 1876 election and he lost but he did win the popular vote | 26 | |
235754783 | Power strugle | This was when Johnson fired Stanton and he was impeached. | 27 | |
235754785 | Freedman's bureau | This gave food, medical supplies and food to the freedman. This also gave away confiscated land but it was later returned to its original owner. | 28 | |
235754787 | Labor contracts | This was when the freedblacks had to work or they would be punished and if they quit in the middle of a contract they would not get the money that they had earned | 29 | |
235754789 | Reconstruction | Thsi was after the war when the north wanted to get the south back into the union and the north would get the south back to they way that it was before the war started. | 30 | |
235754791 | popular vote | this was when the people that voted for this one person this is when he got the most votes form the peopl | 31 | |
235754793 | Electorial vote. | This was when the people of congress voted for who the y wanted as president and who ever won this vote was to be the next president. | 32 |
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