Terms
Term applied to Northerners accused of coming to the South to gain wealth at the expense of Southerners
carpetbaggers
John Wilkes Booth
Extended the right to vote to black men
The Fifteenth Amendment
Plan that gave a general pardon to all Southerners except for Confederate military and government leaders and required 10 percent of the 1860 voting population in Confederate states to pledge allegiance to the United States
ten percent plan
Freedmen's Bureau
System in which freed people rented the land they worked and paid the landlords with the crops they grew
sharecropping
self-made man who served as vice president under Lincoln and became president after Lincoln's assassination
Andrew Johnson
This amendment ended slavery in the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Speeches given by President Johnson to gain support for his Reconstruction plan, which included a call to reject the 14th amendment
"swing around the circle" speeches
Union Leagues
Term used for those that wanted to regain their states from northern control and restore the antebellum social order keeping black people in place under white people.
Redeemers
They were disappointed that the 15th amendment excluded women so they formed the National Women's Suffrage Association.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This organization was created because the Fifteenth Amendment did not include voting rights for women
National Women's Suffrage Association
These Acts divided the ten southern states into military districts under the command of a Union General, required new state constitutions to be written and ratification of the 14th amendment before readmittance into the Union
The Reconstruction Acts
Black Codes
Term used to describe Southern white people that supported Reconstructions
Scalawags
He was born free in North Carolina and rose to prominence as a minister in the AME Church before becoming the first black senator in 1870.
Hiram Revels
This amendment gave citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
Fourteenth Amendment
This act required the president to gain approval of the Senate before appointing or removing officials.
Tenure of Office Act
A Christian organization that established and ran schools for the freedmen in the South
American Missionary Association
System in which store owners extended credit to farmers under the agreement that the farmers would pay the debt with a portion of their future harvest.
crop-lien system
Former Confederate General that founded the Ku Klux Klan
Nathan Bedford Forrest
This celebration marks the day that slaves in Texas learned slavery had ended due to the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Juneteenth
These laws were designed to stop the Klan from intimidating blacks at the polls and prosecute crimes against freed people in federal courts
Enforcement Acts
This Act contradicted the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision which declared that black people could never be citizens.
Civil Rights Act of 1866