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Am. History 2014

Chapter 12

TermDefinition
Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president - 17th president of the USA. entered politics in TN, former slave owner that supported abolition.
Reconstruction the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War 1865-1877
Radical Republicans Republicans angered by Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
Thaddeus Stevens leader of Radical Republicans along with Senator Charles Sumner. They wanted to destroy political power of former slaveholders.
Wade- Davis Bill proposed that Congress, not the president, be responsible for Reconstruction.
Freedmen's Bureau the bureau established by Congress in the last month of the war, assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food.
Black codes discriminatory laws that severely restricted African Americans' lives.
Fourteenth Amendment provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act.
Impeach to formally charge with misconduct in office.
Fifteenth Amendment stated that no one could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Scalawag Name which Democrats called white Southerners who joined the Republican party for Reconstruction
carpetbagger Democrats unflattering name for the Northerners who moved to the South after the war.
Hiram Revels the first African-American Senator
Sharecropping landowners divided their land and gave each worker a few acres along with seeds and tools.
Tenant Farming renting land from the planters and keeping all of their harvest
Ku Klux Klan KKK -founded as a social club for Confederate veterans, started in Tenessee in 1866 eventually spreading to all the southern states pushing white supremacy.
Panic of 1873 Economic turmoil caused by investor Jay Cooke's investment in railroads and bankruptcy settinf off a series of financial failures.
Redemption Democrats called this their return to power in the South.
Rutherford B. Hayes This governor of Ohio was chosen in 1876 as the Republicans candidate for President.
Samuel J. Tilden Governor of New York, the Democratic candidate for President in 1876.
Compromise of 1877 a deal made by party leaders to agree on election results and let Hayes in office as President. Federal troops from Louisiana and S.C. had to be withdrawn, Democrats wanted 3 things to approve the election.
Home Rule the ability to run state governments without federal intervention - allowed the Democrats to pass laws that restricted rights of African Americans, slashed taxes and dismantled public schools.
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