| A | B |
|---|
| Ulysses S. Grant | Northern General who was elected to 2 terms as president. |
| corruption | Biggest problem faced by Grant as president. |
| Horace Greeley | Liberal Republican candidate for president but lost |
| Amnesty Act | 1872 law which pardoned most former Confederates. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Secret organization that advocated violance against minorities and white supremecy |
| economic depression | period of time where finding jobs is difficult and business is bad. |
| Democratic | Political party that regained power in the South after the Amnesty Act was passed. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican who won the disputed presidential election of 1876 |
| Samuel Tilden | Democrat who lost the disputed presidential election of 1876 |
| Compromise of 1877 | Deal that settled the pres. election of 1876 by offering more aid to the South and withdraw of troops in return for African American rights. |
| New South | Term for the rise of industry in the South. |
| James Duke | Wealthy Tobacco industrialist |
| Redeemers | Conservative Democrats whose policies included lower taxes and less government services |
| tenant farmers | farmers who lived on small parcels of land on a former plantation and paid rent. |
| sharecroppers | Poor farmers who could only afford rent in the form of crops. |
| credit | Buying itmes on a promise to pay later. |
| Alabama | Only southern state to have substantial iron and steel industry. |
| Jim Crow | State laws requiring separation of the races in public facilities. |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Govt. office established to aid poor blacks. |
| carpetbaggers | Northeners who went south to take advantage of the post-Civil War situation. |
