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This president came into office after Lincoln’s death and ran afoul of the Radical Republicans in Congress who brought impeachment charges against him.
Who Andrew Johnson?
This group believed that the South should be punished after the civil war ended, and moved to pass legislation in Congress to protect African American rights.
Who are Radical Republicans?
This idea describes the diminishing power of Republicans in the South and lessening power of Reconstruction.
What is waning?
These southern laws were passed to restrict African Americans' rights following the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
These northerners migrated to the south to take advantage of the reconstruction benefits and earn money.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
The election of this man, along with the passage of the Black Codes, moved Radical Republicans in Congress to step in and take control of Reconstruction.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
This government program was created to help the newly freed African Americans and poor white people by providing education, food, and other material support.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This compromise ended Reconstruction settling the Hayes Tilden Election, awarding the contested 20 Electoral votes to Tilden in exchange for the federal government withdrawal from the South.
What is the compromise of 1877?
These acts tried to limit the power of the KKK.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
These southerners worked with the North to promote Reconstruction usually for their own economic benefit. They were held in contempt by other Southerners.
Who are Scalawags?
The passage of the 15th Amendment, drove a wedge into this group, splitting them into distinct groups.
Who are suffragist women?
This white supremacist group terrorized African Americans in the South in an attempt to disenfranchise them and block them from holding power.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
This economic collapse hurt both the economy and the Republicans' goals in the South.
What is the Panic of 1873?
This amendment provided citizenship for all people born in the United States ( except Native Americans).
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was a system in which a person oftentimes African Americans in the South paid a percentage of their crops annually to the owner of the land. This system often kept people indebted.
What is Sharecropping?
This man favored a more liberal amnesty plan for former Confederates, and pocket vetoed the more stringent Wade- Davis Bill.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
Although this former Union General's presidential administration was plagued by corruption, his administration was aggressive in implementing Reconstruction in the South and protecting African Americans.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This 1950s court case during the Civil Rights Era used the 14th Amendment in the integration of schools.
What is Brown v Board?
This Supreme Court case ruled that only state violations of individual rights were a concern.
What is US v Cruikshank?
This group wanted to return the South to pre-war conditions and take power away from African Americans, carpetbaggers, etc.
Who are Redeemers (or Redeemer Governments) ?
This man was the first African American elected to the Senate during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram R. Revels?
These Republicans disillusioned with the party, formed a new faction led by Horace Greeley and advocated smaller government and laissez-faire market economics.
Who are the Liberal Republicans?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
This system involved receiving credit from local stores, oftentimes owned by the plantation owners as well, at a high interest rate for goods indebting the borrowers.
What is the Crop-lien system?