American Pageant Chapter 22 Vocab Flashcards

Key terms, people, and events from Chapter 22 of the 13th edition of the American Pageant.

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