Multiple Choice
Former Confederate states rejoined the Union under this plan
Congressional Reconstruction Plan
Granted citizenship to all men, accept Native Americans
14th Amendment
Pardoned thousands of Southerners
Johnson
Removed federal troops from the south
Compromise of 1877
Originally created to drive out all Northern influences and return to a plantation system in the south
KKK
Black Codes
Tried to find jobs and protect freed slaves
Freedmen's Bureau
Lost presidential election with the Compromise of 1877
Samuel Tilden
Becomes president with the Compromise of 1877
Hayes
Democrats claimed that "this" to pay off bonds favored the rich
Sin Taxes
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Civil War reputation carried him to the presidency
Ulysses S. Grant
Johnson fired this Secretary of War
Edwin Stanton
2 groups of northern Reconstruction
Radical and Liberal
Small banks closed
The firing of Edwin Stanton led to this presidents impeachment
Andrew Johnson
Reserved confiscated lands for free slaves
Sherman
Grant's Secretary of War that accepted bribes from merchants
Accept that former slaves are now free
Reconstruction
President cannot remove any officeal that has to be approved by Congress
Tenure of Office Act
Ended Radical Reconstruction
Laws instituted to segregate African Americans
Black Codes
Tenure of Office Act
Ku Klux Klan
Former Confederate soldiers attempting to drive out federal troops to restore government to the Democrats