A | B |
Andrew Johnson | president after Lincoln assassination |
U.S. Grant | Civil War hero/President 1868 |
Horatio Seymour | Defeated in 1868 by Grant |
Samuel Tilden | Won popular vote in 1876 |
Rutherford B. Hayes | Won the presidental race by one electoral vote in 1876 |
Ida B. Wells | Civil rights activist and Journalist |
segreation | seperation of races |
Reconstruction Acts | divided the south into five military districts in 1867 |
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction | Issued by President Lincoln |
land reform | giving slave land from plantations |
Edwin Stanton | Secretary of war |
Union League | political group assisting Black Americans |
crop-lien | a system designed to prevent Blacks from making a decent living |
economy | Factories and railroads |
poll taxes | stop the black vote |
Jim Crow Laws | Increase segregation of races |
cooperatives | established by blacks to buy businesses |
Madame C.J. Walker | female millionaire |
carpetbaggers | Political influence of Black and White Northern citizens in the south |
Compromise of 1877 | led to removal of federal troops in the south |