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| Vice-President to Abraham Lincoln; offered pardons restoration of land to almost any Confederate who swore allegiance to the Union | Andrew Johnson |
| 1865-1877, a time when federal government struggled to return the 11 southern states to the Union, rebuild economy, and promote rights of freed men | Reconstruction |
| members of republican party who insisted Confederates committed crimes; full citizenship of freedmen, harsh terms on south, support confiscation of Confederate land and give farms to freed men | Radical Republicans |
| passed 1864, required that a majority of a state's prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin | Wade-Davis Bill |
| guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens | 14th Amendment |
| Goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare and education for black and white refugees | Freedman's Bureau |
| to be charged with wrong doing in office | Impeach |
| forbidding any state from denying suffrage on grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude | 15th Amendment |
| white males who were locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors | Scalawag |
| Northerners who went south to improve their economic or political situations or to help freed men | Carpetbagger |
| social separation of the races | Segregation |
| combining schools | Integration |
| landowner dictated the crop and provided the sharecropper with a place to live, seeds, tools, in return for a "share" of harvested crop | Sharecropping |
| the farm worker chose what crop he would plant and brought his own supplies | Share-tenancy |
| tenant paid cash rent to a landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop | Tenant Farming |
| formed in Tennessee 1866; loosely organized group of white southerns that emerged to terrorize African Americans | Ku Klux Klan |
| acts made it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote | Enforcement Act |
| compromisers who found common issues that would unite white southerners around the goal of regaining power in Congress; aim was to repair the South in the eyes of Congress | Redeemer |
| former Union General, Governor of Ohio who ran for President in 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Hayes would be elected President and remaining federal troops were withdrawn from the southern states, southerners given powerful cabinet position and given federal subsides to build railroads and improve ports | Compromise of 1877 |
| communities seek to establish local authority in decision making process | Home Rule |
| describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) to 1964 | Solid South |
| May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War | Amnesty Act |
| laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers | Black Codes |
| created federal guarantees of civil rights and superseded any state laws that limited them | Civil Rights Act of 1866 |
