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Ch 13 Vocab
Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | the period of rebuilding the southern states from 1865 to 1877 |
| Pacific Railway Act of 1862 | an act of Congress that promoted building a railroad to the Pacific coast |
| Transcontinental Railroad | a nearly 2,000-mile line that was started in 1863 and completed in 1869 to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | an act of Congress that turned over vast amounts of public land to homesteaders to settle the country's interior |
| freedmen | formerly enslaved people |
| ten percent plan | President Lincoln's plan that would allow a state to form a new government, elect representatives to Congress, write a new constitution, and return to the Union once ten percent of the men who voted in the 1860 election swore a loyalty oath to the Union |
| Radical Republicans | the group in Congress who felt people in the South should be punished for seceding and causing the Civil War |
| impeachment | the process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official while that official is still in office |
| Freedmen's Bureau | the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; it provided emergency relief to poor southerners (both black and white), established schools for freedmen, performed marriages between newly freed people, and focused on building a new labor system |
| Black Codes | laws in southern states after the Civil War that placed strict conditions on freed people and created a strong backlash from northerners |
| Mechanics' Institute Riot | a deadly 1866 confrontation as former slaves and Republicans battled former Confederate Democrats at the Mechanics' Institute building in New Orleans |
| Reconstruction Acts | laws passed by Congress in 1867 and 1868 that divided the former Confederate states into five districts and put them under military control |
| disfranchise | to take away the right to vote |
| carpetbaggers | northerners who came south during Reconstruction (carrying only small carpetbags); they were suspected of taking advantage of postwar conditions to gain political power and enrich themselves |
| paramilitary group | any of the civilian groups that organized themselves and operated like an army during Reconstruction; they used intimidation and violence to keep African Americans from voting |
| Knights of the White Camellia | the largest of the Reconstruction paramilitary groups; it was formed in St. Mary Parish |
| Colfax Massacre | a deadly riot of April 1873 that began when heavily armed White Democrats tried to remove Republican electees from the Grant Parish Courthouse |
| White League | a paramilitary group formed in 1874 that was committed to restoring Louisiana to white Democratic rule by whatever means necessary |
| Battle of Liberty Place | an incident of September 1874 in which well-armed but outnumbered Republicans fought with White Leaguers, who forced the Republicans to retreat and took control of New Orleans government until Republican control was returned by federal troops |
| Redeemers | southern Democrats who saw themselves as redeeming, or saving, southern honor as they returned to Democratic control at the end of Reconstruction |
| home rule | what the Redeemers called the return to white Democratic political control at the end of Reconstruction |
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