Reconstruction vocabulary
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| show | Wade-Davis Bill (July 1864)
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| show | Thaddeus Stevens
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| show | Andrew Johnson
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| show | Freedmen's Bureau
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| Passed after the Civil War, these discriminatory laws had the effect of severely limiting African American lives and restoring some of the restrictions of slavery. | show 🗑
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| show | carpetbaggers
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| College set up in 1867 for preparing black men for the ministry and teaching; originally called Augusta Institute. | show 🗑
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| show | Hiram Revels
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| show | 13th Amendment
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| 26 year old actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. | show 🗑
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| show | Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (Dec. 1863) or Ten-Percent Plan
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| show | Civil Rights Act of 1866
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| Made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens & entitled them to equal protection of the law with no state depriving any person of life, liberty or property w/o due process of law. | show 🗑
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| Elected President of the United States in 1868. | show 🗑
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| Wanted to destroy all power of former slaveholders; believed that African Americans should be given citizenship and the right to vote. | show 🗑
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| show | Freedmen's Bureau Act (1866) & Civil Rights Act of 1866
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| Promised by General William Tecumseh Sherman to the freed slaves who followed his army. | show 🗑
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| show | Sharecropping
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| Founded originally as a social club for Confederate veterans, but turned into a violent terrorist organization with its goaal to restore white supremacy through the prevention of African Americans exercising their political rights. | show 🗑
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| show | 15th Amendment (1870)
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| System in which farm workers provide own tools and rent farmland for cash. | show 🗑
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| show | redemption
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| show | Tenure of Office Act (1867)
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| Along with the requirement to ratify the 14th Amendment, this act divided the former Confederate states (except Tennessee) into five military districts in order to recognize and protect African-Americans right to vote. Johnson vetoed, but overridden. | show 🗑
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| Secretary of War who supported the Radical Republicans reconstruction plan; fired by Johnson in order to test the constitutionality of the Tenure of Office Act. | show 🗑
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| Derogatory name given by Democrats to white Southerners who joined the Republican party; majority were small farmers who wanted to improve their economic & political position. | show 🗑
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| Congress passed a series of acts to curtail Klan violence an Democratic intimidation; provided for federal supervision of elections in Southern states & the use of federal troops in areas where the Klan was active. | show 🗑
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| Ability to run state governments without federal intervention. | show 🗑
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| show | Compromise of 1877
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| Case in which the Supreme Court ruled that most civil rights were state rights & therefore not protected by the 14th Amendment | show 🗑
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| Democratic Presidential candidate in 1876 who wins the popular vote, but falls short of one needed electoral college vote. | show 🗑
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| Formally charge with misconduct in office; Hoiuse of Representatives has power to do to federal officials; the Senate then acts as jury. | show 🗑
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| show | Credit Moblier scandal
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| show | Amnesty Act of 1872
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| A conspiracy which defrauded the government of millions of dollars; internal revenue collectors and other officials were bribed by whiskey distillers who din't want to pay taxes on their product. | show 🗑
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| A series of bank failures which led to a five year recession; led also to the Specie Resumption Act (ie, a return to the gold standard). | show 🗑
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| Supreme Court decision which declared that the 14th Amendment did not grant the federal government the power to punish individual whites who oppressed blacks. | show 🗑
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| show | Rutherford B. Hayes
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| show | U.S. v. Reese (1876)
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