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| 118549457 | Reconstruction | Began before the Civil War ended. What to do with slavery and the rebels, so a political system had to be re-created and the connection between the North and South had to be made. A literal rebuilding of the South. | 0 | |
| 118549458 | Ten Percent Plan | specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. Voters could then elect delegates to draft revised state constitutions and establish new state governments. All southerners except for high-ranking Confederate army officers and government officials would be granted a full pardon. Lincoln guaranteed southerners that he would protect their private property, though not their slaves. Most moderate Republicans in Congress supported the president's proposal for Reconstruction because they wanted to bring a quick end to the war. | 1 | |
| 118549459 | Wade Davis Bill | an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it was too harsh. | 2 | |
| 118549460 | Andrew Johnson | A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president. | 3 | |
| 118549461 | Black Codes | Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves, basic rights to vote and to take a white person to trial. | 4 | |
| 118549462 | Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Summer | Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress who was devoted to a stringent and punitive Reconstruction effort. Worked towards equality for Southern blacks. | 5 | |
| 118549463 | Civil Rights Bill | Passed over Andrew Johnson's veto, the bill aimed to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and making it a crime to deprive blacks of their rights to sue, testify in court, or hold property. | 6 | |
| 118549464 | 14th Amendment | This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state and national levels. | 7 | |
| 118549465 | Tenure of Office Act | In 1867 this Act was passed which limited the President's power by prohibiting the President from removing civil officers w/o Senate consent. Goal was to bar Johnson from firing Secretary of War Stanton. | 8 | |
| 118549466 | Nathan Bedford Forest | First grand wizard of the KKK, he led an attack on Fort Pillow that killed 300 blacks, after they surrendered, in the Civil War. | 9 | |
| 118549467 | KKK | Southern society formed in 1866 to prevent freed men and women from exercising their rights and to help whites regain power; they wanted to get rid of Northerners who were in the South (northerners who came to get cheap land in the South were called Carpetbaggers) | 10 | |
| 118549468 | Carpetbaggers | A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes by buying up land from desperate Southerners and by manipulating new black voters to obtain lucrative government contracts. | 11 | |
| 118549469 | Bossism | political parties organized under one boss to get , manifestation of politics in big cities. putting together of political machines run by political bosses. helped immigrants "under the table" (jobs, apts., etc.) bosses won votes in return. | 12 | |
| 118549470 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th president of the united states, was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history | 13 | |
| 118549471 | Samuel Tilden | the Democrat nominee for the 1876 election who campaigned against Republican scandal; he was an electoral vote away from winning the election when four doubtful states needed to send in returns; the debacle was resolved with a compromise between parties, and his opponent, Hayes, was elected president instead | 14 | |
| 118549472 | Bargain of 1877 | (1877) also known as the Compromise of 1877. The bargain was that Hayes was elected as president in exchange for the ending of Reconstruction. | 15 |
