Politics
President that ended Reconstruction
What is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Which of the these were NOT a border state during the Civil War: Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama, Maryland
What is Alabama?
Signaled the end of Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
"all persons born or naturalized in the United States" become citizens
What is 14th Amendment?
Laws that separated the races in public facilities
What are Jim Crow laws?
Name given to white Southerners who supported radical Reconstruction
What are Scalawags?
Used to keep the South from exporting cotton
What is the Northern Blockade?
Proposed to place the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government in charge of Reconstruction
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Who was the Union General who led the Union forces from Tennessee to Atlanta, Ga. On the Savannah, Ga, and then northward into South Carolina and North Carolina, burning everything in his path?
Agency that gave food and clothes to former slaves and needy whites
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Thousand of African Americans voted for him through the federal government had corruption and graft
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Abraham Lincoln suspended _______ to deal with dissent in the Union states
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
Congressional act that divided the South into military districts, required southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment, required southern states to respect African-American voting rights
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Battle that resulted in the North cutting the Confederacy in two
What is Vicksburg?
Congressional leader of Reconstruction (leader of the radical Republicans)
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Divided the south into 5 military districts supervised by generals
What is Congressional Reconstruction? Or Reconstruction Act of 1867?
The Union's 3-part plan to conquer the South
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Laws passed by Southern states to restrict the freedom of African Americans
What are black codes?
13th Amendment declared this illegal and unconstitutional
What is slavery?
A political group wanting to "redeem the South" by removing Republican power and reestablishing white supremacy
What are Redeemers?
President that made it relatively easy for the South to rejoin the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The last time the South invades the North, a battle with heavy casualties on both sides, and a devasting defeat for the South. Known as the turning point in the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
In an effort to remove Andrew Johnson from office, the House charged him with violating the:
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Location where Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court House?
First African American that served as a U.S. Senator
Who is Hiram Revels?