Struggle over Reconstruction
The percentage of voters who must take an oath of allegiance under the Wade-Davis Bill.
What was a majority?
To fulfill the requirements of the Military Reconstruction Act and for states to be deemed "reconstructed".
Why did confederate states need to write new constitutions that included universal manhood suffrage and the 14th amendment?
These were three major scandals under the Grant Administration.
What were The Credit Mobilier, the Fisk-Gould gold scheme, and the Whiskey Ring? (could also include the bribery of Belknap)
The name of given to former Confederate states during the Reconstruction.
What was "Solid South"?
The North experienced an economic boom in both of these areas immediately following the war.
What is agriculture and industry?
Johnson did this to test the Tenure Act.
Why did Johnson dismiss Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?
The carpetbagger and the scalawag.
What was the name of a Northerner who traveled south during the Reconstruction and the name of a Southerner who participated in Radical rule?
The leader of the corrupt city government of New York during the Reconstruction era.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
The name of a corrupt Democratic political group that ran the city government of New York.
What was Tammany Hall?
A financial collapse that set off a six-year depression.
What is the Panic of '73?
Seven Republican senators voted to acquit President Johnson at his impeachment.
How did some senators show that they felt it was unconstitutional and unwise to remove Johnson from office? or How did senators vote their consciences?
The most notorious extremis vigilante group in the South.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
The abuse of Southern Reconstruction, the Republican corruption and economic hard times.
What were the three main themes of the Democrats in the 1876 election?
A political cartoonist responsible for editorializing Boss Tweed.
Who was Thomas Nast?
Paper money printed to help pay for the war that was not backed by gold or silver.
What was "greenbacks"?
These are important parts of the 14th Amendment.
What amendment contains the following:
a) full citizenship of Blacks
b) right of blacks to life, liberty and pursuit of property
c) prohibition of Confederate leaders from holding office without 2/3 approval of House and Senate
The system of farming used as the South's main economic response to the devastation cause by the Civil War.
What was sharecropping?
The term that refers to using the Civil War as a distraction for voters in the 1876 election.
What is" waving the bloody shirt"?
It became a synonym for political corruption.
What was Grantism?
People who wanted to print more money to increase wages and help pay off debts.
Who were the "easy money" advocates?
This word means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Men who led the fight for freedom from Radical rule in the South.
What group was called the "Redeemers"?
This was the compromise between Democrats and Republicans in the disputed election of 1876.
Why did Hayes take office and immediately remove federal troops from the South?
The Republican dark horse candidate in the 1876 election.
Who was Rutherford Hayes?
The term that means the government will redeem printed money for its face value in gold.
What does "good as gold" mean?