Vocabulary
The process of readmitting former Confederate states into the Union
Reconstruction
Laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
Amendment that gave African Americans the right to vote
15th Amendment
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
At what age did children start working in the mills?
12
Land owners provided the land, tools, and supplies and these people provided the labor
A special tax people had to pay before they could vote
poll tax
Laws that enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
An agency providing relief for freed-people and certain poor people in the South
Freedman's Bureau
How long did workers labor in the mills?
12 hours a day 6 days a week
Segregation
These laws divided the South into given districts
Reconstruction Acts
Amendment that made slavery illegal throughout the United States
13th Amendment
Secret Society which opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage, for African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
What caused a failure in the stock market prompting investors to begin selling shares of stock more rapidly than people wanted to buy them?
Panic of 1873
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
This act provided African Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This Amendment further guaranteed civil rights to all people including guaranteeing citizens equal protection of the laws and not depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
14th Amendment
This group wanted the federal government to force change in the South
Radical Republicans
This happened where the Democrats agreed to accept Hayes's victory where in return they wanted all remaining federal troops removed from the South
Compromise of 1877
The name given to northern-born Republicans who had moved South after the war
Carpetbaggers
Offered Southerners amnesty, or official pardon, for all illegal acts supporting the rebellion
Ten Percent Plan
Act that allowed former Confederates, except those who held high ranks, to serve in public office
Amnesty Act of 1872
The two leaders of the Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner