BYRD'S BEST
Presidential election of 1876
What is: unusual because it was settled by a special commission
Sharecropping
What is: an agricultural economic system developed in the South after the Civil War. They usually remained in debt year after year.
Carpetbaggers
Who are: Northerners who came to the south to take advantage of the situation in the South during reconstruction
Amnesty
What is: a group pardon
Edwin Stanton
Who is: secretary of war who refused to leave office
Charles Sumner
Who is: radical leader in the Senate
Ku Klux Klan
What is: a secret organization that arose in the South to frighten blacks and discourage them from voting or running for political office after the Civil War
Reconstruction Plan
What is: Johnson's plan to grant amnesty to most former Confederates
Thirteenth Amendment
What is: abolished slavery
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who is: won the disputed election of 1876
South's sufferings
What is: inadequate labor force
lack of money
severe property damage
Freedmen's Bureau
What is: the federal relief agency established to help the freed slaves in the South
Radical Republicans
What is: able to gain control of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and override Andrew Johnson's presidential vetoes
black codes
What is: designed to keep slaves in subjection and prevent them from exercising their poliitical rights
Thaddeus Stevens
Who is: leader of Radical Republicans in the House
Radical Republican's objections
What is: Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan
extension of executive powers during the war
treating the South as erring brethern rather than a conquered foreign nation
Reconstruction Act of 1867
What is: the law that established military rule in the South
Tenure of Office Act
What is: the bill Congress passed to keep President Johnson from dismissing Radical Republican presidential apppointees
Fourteenth Amendment
What is: granted blacks citizenship
bar unpardoned Confederates from voting or holding office
eliminate the Three-Fifths compromise in counting the population
William Seward
Who is: negotiated the treaty to buy "Frigidia"; Johnson's secretary of state
Andrew Johnson Achievements
What is: purchasing Alaska
removing European rule in Mexico
signing a treaty with China
Bourbon Reconstruction
What is: the return of Southern Democrats to power in government
Jealous Northern Republicans
What is: jealous of the power they had in congress and did not want the Confederates to be allowed to regain power
Fifteenth Amendment
What is: kept states from denying blacks the right to vote
Andrew Johnson
Who is: impeached in 1868