Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 22 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.
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| 1624768594 | Exodusters | Blacks who left the South for Kansas and elsewhere during Reconstruction | 0 | |
| 1624768595 | Civil Rights Bill of 1866 | First Congressional attempt to guarantee Black rights in the South, passed over Johnson's veto | 1 | |
| 1624768596 | Thaddeus Stevens | Leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives | 2 | |
| 1624768597 | Tenure of Office Act | Constitutionally questionable law whose violation by President Johnson formed the basis for his impeachment | 3 | |
| 1624768598 | 13th Amendment | Amendment that abolished the institution of slavery in the United States | 4 | |
| 1624768599 | 14th Amendment | Amendment that granted rights to all Americans and defined citizenship | 5 | |
| 1624768600 | 15th Amendment | Amendment that gave all African American males the right to vote | 6 | |
| 1624768601 | William Seward | Secretary of State who arranged an initially unpopular, but later valuable land deal in 1867 | 7 | |
| 1624768602 | Carpetbaggers | Individuals who moved to the South from the North to run Southern governments | 8 | |
| 1624768603 | Scalawags | White southerners who supported the ideas of the radical Republicans in the House of Representatives | 9 | |
| 1624768604 | Freedmen's Bureau | Federal agency that greatly assisted Blacks educationally, but failed in other aid efforts | 10 | |
| 1624768605 | Ku Klux Klan | Secret organization that intimidated Blacks and worked to restore White supremacy in the South | 11 | |
| 1624768606 | Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 | Laws designed to stamp out KKK terrorism in the South | 12 | |
| 1624768607 | Benjamin Wade | President Pro-Tempore of the Senate who hoped to become President of the US after Johnson's impeachment | 13 | |
| 1624768608 | Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Law that was passed in 1867 that divided the South into 5 military districts | 14 | |
| 1624768609 | Union League | Leading Black political organization during the period of Reconstruction | 15 | |
| 1624768610 | Sharecropping | Former slaves often worked on farms and on land they rented; paid for land in crops | 16 | |
| 1624768611 | Black Codes | Series of Southern laws designed to discriminate and limit the rights of newly freed Blacks in the South | 17 | |
| 1624768612 | 10% Plan | Plan instituted by Abraham Lincoln that required 10% of Southern voters to swear allegiance to the US | 18 | |
| 1624768613 | Wade Davis Bill | Bill instituted by the Radical Republicans that required 50% of Southern voters to swear allegiance to the US; pocket-vetoed by Lincoln | 19 |
