| A | B |
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| Oliver O. Howard | Head of the Freedmen's Bureau |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln's assassination When: 1864-1868( president) an ex-Tennessee Senator. Johnson was Lincoln's vice-president. Congress passed the Civil Rights Bill, but Johnson vetoed the Bill. Congress tried to have Johnson impeached. The bill to have him impeached passed in the Senate. |
| Alexander Stephens | He was the vice-president of the Confederacy until 1865 |
| Charles Sumner | the Senator for Massachusetts. He was a leading abolitionist. He spoke against slavery |
| Thaddeus Stevens | a radical Republican congressman. He tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson in 1868 |
| William Seward | Secretary of State under Lincoln who purchased Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. |
| Freedman's Bureau | 1865 It provided food, clothes, and education to African-Americans and to white refuge. Taught 200,000 blacks to read, expired in 1872. |
| 10% Plan | This was Lincoln's reconstruction plan for after the Civil War. |
| Moderate/Radical Republicans | some people agreed with Lincoln's ideals. They believed that the seceded states should be restored to the Union swiftly and on the terms of Congress, not the President. Some people believed that the South should pay dearly for their crimes. |
| Black Codes | laws that were passed in the southern regimes in the south after the Civil War. The laws were designed to regulate the affairs of the freed blacks. |
| Sharecropping | After the Civil War former landowners "rented" plots of land to blacks and poor whites in such a way that the renters were always in debt and therefore tied to the land. |
| Fourteenth Amendment | "It (1) conferred civil rights, including citizenship but excluding the franchise, on the freedmen; |
| Military Reconstruction Act | It divided the South into five military districts that were commanded by Union generals. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | An incorporation of black suffrage into the federal Constitution. |
| Civil Rights Act | In 1866 it was created to grant citizenship to blacks and it was an attempt to prohibit the black codes. |
| Scalawags | Southerners who were former Unionist and Whigs |
| Carpetbaggers | this nickname was given to Northerners who moved south to seek their fortune out of the destruction. |
| Ku Klux Klan | the most notable anti-black groups. They were against any power or rights a black might have. |
| Force Acts | They were created to put a stop to the torture and harassment of blacks by whites, especially by hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Tenure of Office | stated that the president cannot fire any appointed officials without consent of Congress - Congress passed this act knowing that Johnson would break it |
