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| 8363162829 | Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan that allowed a Southern state to form its own government afetr ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States | 0 | |
| 8363162830 | 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. Required an oath of alligence from the majority of white men in state State gov can only be comprised by those who had never taken up arm against the Union Permanent disenfranchisement of Confederate leaders Lincoln defeated this act with a pocket veto | 1 | |
| 8363162831 | Black Codes | Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War | 2 | |
| 8363162832 | Freedmen's Bureau | created by Congress to provide clothing, shelter, education, food, and medicine to former slaves (vetoed by Johnson and overrode by Congress) | 3 | |
| 8363162833 | Civil Rights Act of 1866 | A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. (vetoed by Johnson and overrode by Congress) | 4 | |
| 8363162834 | Fourteenth Amendment | guarantees equal protection of the law and rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the USA, including former slaves. | 5 | |
| 8363162835 | Reconstruction Act of 1867 | Act passed by Congress that abolished previous state governments and set up 5 temporary military districts run by Union generals. | 6 | |
| 8363162836 | Fifteenth Amendment | guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude | 7 | |
| 8363162837 | American Woman Suffrage Association | organization led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and others who remained loyal to the Republican party, despite its failure to include women's voting rights in the 15th Amendment | 8 | |
| 8363162838 | National Woman Suffrage Association | led by Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in response to the split within the American Equal Right Association over support of the 15th amendment. Anthony and Stanton thought that they shouldn't support the 15th amendment unless it included the vote for women. | 9 | |
| 8363162839 | Minor v. Happersett | the court acknowledged that women were citizens but found that the constitution did not guarantee women citizens the right to vote | 10 | |
| 8363162840 | sharecropping | A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops. | 11 | |
| 8363162841 | Union League | the black political organization that promoted self-help and defense of political rights In 1860s black and white republicans joined forces through the ------- - a secret fraternal order Formed in border states and northern cities during civil war Pressured congress to uphold justice for freedman After black got their right this groups organized marrying g at churches and stuff to instruct freedman on political issues | 12 | |
| 8363162842 | scalawags | A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners | 13 | |
| 8363162843 | carpetbaggers | A derogatory term applied to Northerners who migrated south during the Reconstruction to take advantage of opportunities to advance their own fortunes | 14 | |
| 8363162844 | convict leasing | Notorious system, begun during reconstruction, whereby southern state officials allowed private companies to hire out prisoners to labor under brutal conditions in mines and other industries | 15 | |
| 8363162845 | Civil Rights Act of 1875 | A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. | 16 | |
| 8363162846 | Freedman's Savings and Trust Company | a private bank founded in 1865 to aid displaced blacks and other war refugees Private bank founded in 1865 Worked closely with the Freedman's Bureau and Union army across the south Former slaves associated it with The party of Lincoln - 1000 responded and gave thrifts and small saving to the the banks branches In the early 1870s tho, the bank's director sank their money into risky loans and speculative investments June 1874 the bank failed Republicans feel that congress should step in Cingress refuse to refund the 61k depositors ½ recovers about 18$- but others revived nothing | 17 | |
| 8363162847 | classical liberalism | a political ideology that values the freedom of individuals — including the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and markets — as well as limited government. | 18 | |
| 8363162848 | laissez faire | Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs | 19 | |
| 8363162849 | Crédit Mobilier | a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes. | 20 | |
| 8363162850 | "Redemption" | Southern Democratic term for the end of Reconstruction and the return of white southern Democratic rule to the South. | 21 | |
| 8363162851 | Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. | 22 | |
| 8363162852 | Enforcement Laws | aimed at the KKK, protected the freedman's rights under the 14th and 15th amendments, authorized military action to suppress terrorist movements | 23 | |
| 8363162853 | Slaughter-House Cases | A group of decisions begun in 1873 in which the Court began to undercut the power of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect African American rights. | 24 | |
| 8363162854 | U.S. v. Cruikshank | Supreme Court decides the federal government cannot punish whites for oppressing blacks | 25 | |
| 8363162855 | Civil Rights Cases | Supreme Court decision in 1883 that said the Fourteenth Amendment only made discrimination by government illegal; private citizens could do as they pleased. | 26 | |
| 8363162856 | Andrew Johnson | United States President during Reconstruction; he was impeached by Congress for not agreeing with their plan to reconstruct the South. | 27 | |
| 8363162857 | Charles Sumner | the Republican idealist who pushed for black suffrage during Reconstruction as a principle of black freedom and racial equality First introduced his bill in 1870 Wanting to enforce equal access to schools, public transportations, hotels, and churches - the bill remained at Capitol Hill for 5 years Opponents said shared public spaces will lead to intermarriage On his deathbed Summer exhorted a visitor to remember the civil rights bill Congress did pass Civil Rights Act of 1875- but took out pet about mixing churches and schools Last of such Act, till the Civil Right Act of 1964 | 28 | |
| 8363162858 | Thaddeus Stevens | A Radical Republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress. | 29 | |
| 8363162859 | Ulysses S. Grant | President who used his authority to fight against the KKK and secure rights for freed slaves; scandals and public opinion slowed his effectiveness | 30 | |
| 8363162860 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | An American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement | 31 | |
| 8363162861 | Robert Smalls | Slave who worked for the Confederates as a planter pilot. Stole a vessel and loaded it with family and took it to the Union. Important politician and established a Republican party in South Carolina. | 32 | |
| 8363162862 | Blanche K. Bruce | U.S. politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881; of mixed race, he was the first elected black senator to serve a full term | 33 | |
| 8363162863 | Nathan Bedford Forrest | Confederate cavalry leader who later became a founder of the Ku Klux Klan A decorated confederate general Born in poverty 1821 Risen to become a big-time slave trader and Mississippi planter A fiery secessionist, formed a Tennessee Confederate Cavalry regiment, fought at the battle of Shiloh Won fame as a daring raider April 12, 1864 - his troop perpetuated the massacre at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, (black union soldier tryna surrender) His determination to upheld white supremacy altered course of Reconstruction | 34 |
