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ReconstructuionVocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstructuon | the process the U.S goverment used to readmit the confederate states to the union. |
| "With Malice Toward None,With Charity For All" | Was in Lincolns Second Inagural Address in March 1865 Lincoln promised to Reunify the nation. (most interested in Re-Building.) |
| Freedmen's Bureau | African Americans were not Property anymore. They were able to work for their Families,and reach their goal of economic goals. |
| Andrew Johnson | A Southern Democrat: Presidential election ticket with Lincoln bring comfort border states and hopefully get those votes for the republican party. |
| Black Codes | A Law passed by Southern States that limited the freedom of former slaves. |
| Civil Rights Act 1866 | Granted Citizenship and Equal Rights to all persons born in the United States (except Native Americans) |
| Civil Rights Act Of 1875 | Outlaws Racial Segregation in Public Services Ensured the Right of African American to serve as Jurors. |
| 13th Amendment | Banned Slavery in the U.S |
| 14th Amendment | All citizens were granted "equal protection of the laws" (does not clearly talk about suffrage (voting) |
| 15th Amendment | Specifically addresses suffrage for African Americans-stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting. |
| Reconstruction Acts Of 1867 | Divided the South in 5 military Districts each run by army commanders. |
| Carpet Baggers | White Northerners who rushed to the south right after the Civil War for political or financial advantage. |
| Impeachment Of Johnson | President Johnson fought against many of Congress's reform efforts during Radical Reconstruction. |
| Share Cropping | A system in which landowners gave farm workers land,seeds and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised. |
| "40 Acres And A Mule" | General William T. Sherman suggested that abondoned land in coastal South Carolina be split into 40 acres parcels and given to freed men. but a rumor was started saying that all Freedmen were to be given "40 Acres and a mule" the freedmen heard wrong. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group that formed in 1866 that wanted to restore Democratic control of the south and ti keep former slaves POWERLESS. |
| Panic Of 1873 | Financial Crisis in which banks closed and the stock markets collapsed. |
| Compromise Of 1877 | The agreement that resolved an 1876 election dispute Rutherfurd B. Hayes became president and then removed the last federal troops from the south. |
| President Grant | Was A was hero and commander. He was too trusting of the means around him. He knows Nothing of Politics. |
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