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Reconstruction vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1-1 vocabulary | 1-1 vocabulary |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president, he opposed radical republicans who passed reconstruction acts over his veto |
| Freedoms Bareaue | An agency providing relief for freed people and certain poor people in the south |
| Reconstruction | the process of readmitting the former confederate states union,lasted 1865 to 1877--Southern states were organized and put in the union |
| Black codes | laws passed in the south after civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit black workers |
| Radical republicans | Favoring drastic political economic or social reforms |
| Republicans | A government party that morally protested slavery, it became the second major political party |
| Impeach | To formally charge a public official with misconduct in the office |
| Thaddus stevens | Man behind the 14th amendment,Stevens and Johnson hated each other; (radical republican) |
| 14th Amendment | Establishes equality which "equal protection of the laws" |
| 15th Amendment | Gave African Americans the right to vote |
| Wade Davis Bill | required 50% of voters to take an oath and permitted only non-confederates the right to vote. |
| 1-2 vocabulary | 1-2 vocabulary |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who migrated to the South in order to establish themselves and bring damage to weak Southern economy. |
| Scalawags | Democrats who joined the Republican Party in order to manipulate new black voters into gaining political seats in the South. |
| Sharecropping | In exchange for tools and land to work, workers gave up portion of crop yields. Indirectly lead to form of economic slavery. |
| Tenant Farming | Workers bought land and worked it, being able to keep what they farmed. |
| Hiram Revels | Mississippi's first black senator.army. In 1870 Revels became the first African American in the U.S. Senate. He took over the seat previously held by Confederate president Jefferson Davis. |
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | This secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans. |
| Samuel J. Tilde | Samuel was the 25th Governor of New York and the Democratic candidate for president in the disputed election of 1876. |
| panic of 1873 | The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries |
| Compromise of 1877 | The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. |
| Redemption | In the 1870s, southern Democrats began to muster more political power as former Confederates began to vote again. It was a movement that gathered energy up until the Compromise of 1877 |
| Home rule | Home rule is government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a constituent part of a state to exercise such of the state's powers of government decisions. |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | 19th President of the United States from 1877 to 1881, having served also as an American congressman and governor of Ohio |
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