A | B |
Radical Republicans | wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders |
Lincoln | 10% Plan |
Johnson | Majority must swear allegiance |
Black Codes | discriminatory laws in South |
Freedman's Bureau | helped reunite African American families |
13th Amendment | freed all slaves |
14th Amendment | gave citizenship to those born or naturalized in U.S. |
15th Amendment | voting rights |
Amnesty | an official power to pardon |
Tenure of Office Act | President cannot remove cabinet members without consent of Congress |
Scalawags | Southerners who supported Radical Republicans |
Carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved South |
KuKluxKlan | secret organization. white supremacy |
Election of 1876 | former slave support |
Compromise of 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President |
Lincoln's assassin | John Wilkes Booth |
Where Lincoln was shot | Ford's Theatre |
Slaughterhouse and Reese | hurt civil rights of African Americans |
sharecropping | landowner gets portion of crop in payment |
tenant farming | rent land for cash payment |
Jim Crow Laws | a series of segregation laws |
Plessy vs. Ferguson | separate but equal facilities are legal |
Panic of 1873 | triggered a 5 year depression |
Redemption | return of Democratic (white) power to South |
Hiram Revels | first African American Senator |
life after slavery | slaves still discriminated against |
impeach | to formally charge a person with misconduct |
Specie Resumption Act of 1875 | Put the U.S. back on gold standard |
Rutherford B. Hayes | Republican candidate 1876 |
Samuel J. Tilden | Democrat candidate 1876 |
Debt Peonage | bound laborers into slavery to pay off debt |
Chinese exclusion Act | banned entry of Chinese except a limited few |
Literacy Test | test required in order to vote |
Poll Tax | Tax required in order to vote |
Grandfafther Clause | if grandfather could vote, you could too |
Racial etiquette | rules and customs regulation relationships betwen blacks and whites |
First state to secede | South Carolina |
KKK founded here | Pulaski, TN |
Klan was associated with this gorup | S0uthern Democrats |
Daniel Uppom | fought against Klan in Arkansas |
swallow the dog | for a Confederate to swear allegiance to the Union |
Bill Brownlow | Radical Republican in TN, Governor, publicist |
"Pocket vetoed" by Lincoln | Wade-Davis Bill |
Thaddeus Stevens | Congressional leader for the Radical Republicans |