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Brinkley APUSH ch.15
Ch. 15 us history Identifications
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alexander H. Stephens | Former VP of Confederacy, elected as GA senator |
| Atlanta Compromise | Booker T. Washington's outlined philosophy of race relations (1895) Believed that African Americans should forgo agitating for political rights and concentrate on self-improvement and preparation for equality |
| Blanche K. Bruce | Black senator from Mississippi |
| Carpetbagger | N scum creep who moved to S for capital reasons, |
| Charles Sumner | leader of Radical faction of Republican party, beat to a bloody pulp as Coach smith says |
| Convict Lease System | no wage-paying employment system where S lease gangs of convicted criminals to private interests as cheap labor supply. |
| Credit Mobilier | One of the political scandals of Grant/Republicans of the time. French owned Credit Mobilier construction company that helped build the Union Pacific Railroad made fraudulent contracts that cost them and the fed. gov. millions. |
| Crop Lien System | Poor farmers would spendon credit at local stores; rediculous interest |
| Edwin M. Stanton | secretary of War cooperated with radicals |
| Fence Laws | As commercial agriculture intruded into the livestock-raising backcountry in the 1870s, these laws fenced in the livestock instead of the agriculture. |
| 14 amendment | 1st constitutional definition of citizenship |
| Grantism | What liberal republicans called grant's first term (1869-79) Their negative view of Grant caused them to split. |
| Hamilton Fish | Grant's sec. of State, only cabinet member with experience |
| Henry w. grady | Editor of the Atlanta Constitution and spokesmen for a New industrialized s. who seldom challenged white supremacy, but advocated other important changes in southern values. Promoted the virtues of thrift, industry and progress. |
| Hiram R. Revels | Black senator from Mississippi |
| Horace Greeley | Veteran editor and publisher of the NY tribune woth the Liberal republicans and the Democrats presidential nominee for the election of 1872 against Grant. He lost 286-66 electoral votes. |
| Horatio Seymour | Dem nominee for Pres.(1868) lost to Grant |
| James B. Duke | Owner of the American Tobacco Company that established a virtual monopoly over the processing of raw tobacco into marketable materials showing how s. is becoming industrialized. |
| Jim Crow Laws | State statutes that had institutionalized an elaborate system of segregation. |
| Joel Chandler Harris | Author of Uncle Remus and other folk tales portraying slaves society of the antebellum years as harmonious world marked by engagin dialect and close emotional bonds between races. |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Lincoln |
| Joint Committee on Reconstruction | formed Dec. 1865 to form Reconstruction plan |
| KKK | not very nice group towards the blacks |
| Liberal Republicans | opposed Grante and split from Republican Party |
| Lost Cause | Romantic view of the s. side of the Civil war |
| O.O Howard | Led freedman's bureau; provided social services for freed s. blacks |
| Panic of 1873 | Jay Cooke and Co invested too heavily in postwar railroad building and soon failed. worst recession to date |
| readjuster | response to the Redeemers regimes, movement in VA demanding that the state revise its debt payment procedures so as to make more money available for state services. |
| Redeemed | nickname white s. had for the Democrats taking back the governments of former Confederate states. |
| Samuel J. Tilden | Reform governor of NY who had help overthrow corrupt Tweed Ring. became Democrats presidential nominee against Ruherford B. Hayes |
| Scalawag | s. white republicans thought rep. would serve interests better than Democrats |
| Seward's Folly | Seward bought Alaska from Russians for 7.2 million dollars in 1867. |
| sharecropping | tenants of w landowners; paid landowners fixed rent or share of crop |
| Standard Gauge | Railroad track all the same size. |
| Tenure of Office Act | trap to impeach Johnson, president can't remove cabinet officals |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Leader of Radical section of Republican party advocated wide-scale punishment of s. and redistribution of land among freed lacks |
| 13th amendment | Abolished slavery dec. 1865 |
| Wade-Davis bill | president appointed provisional governor for each s state; required majority of white males to pledge Union allegians, deny Confederate ties, abolish slavery, repudiate debts for Union readmission, pocket vetoed by Lincoln |
| Wiskey Ring | Another Grant Scandal. Treasury of Secretary Benjamin H. Bristow, discovered that some officals and a group of distillers were cheating the gov. out of taxes by filling out false forms. |
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