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Resconstruction 2
Reconstruction Second Layer
Term | Definition |
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Abraham Lincoln | Assassinated 5 days after end of Civil War. For a lenient policy of reconstruction. |
Andrew Johnson | Impeached by Radical Republicans for being too lenient on policy of reconstruction. |
Rutherford B. Hayes | Pulled troops out of the South ending reconstruction and progress for freed African Americans. |
Ulysses S. Grant | Reconstruction policy weakened by scandals lead to loss of republican unity. |
Ku Klux Klan | A secret organization that use terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War. |
scalawags | A white southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War. |
carpetbaggers | A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War. |
Republican Party | United the anti-slavery debate into a political platform and party. |
Democratic Party | United white Southerners who opposed reconstruction and African American political gains. |
Dixiecrats | Name applied to Southern Democrats who opposed federal interference in Southern policy. |