Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan called for ten percent of eligible voters in the 1860 election to do this.
What is take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
The agency established by Congress to offer assistance to former slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
The absence of slave labor led to this system.
What is sharecropping?
Term given to actions of corrupt political leaders who were involved in unethical and illegal activities.
What was Grantism?
Chosen as Republican candidate for election of 1876.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
Opponents of Lincoln in Congress belonged to this political party.
What was the Radical Republicans?
Granted citizenship to African Americans
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
These farmers owned the crops they planted and received income after harvesting.
Who were tenant farmers?
Passed to ensure the right of all citizens to vote.
What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
Democrat nominee who fought the "Tweed Ring."
Who was Samuel J. Tilden?
He was responsible for modifying Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Provided that a state's representation in Congress would be based on its whole population.
What was the Fourteenth Amendment.
Northerners who moved to the South.
Who were carpetbaggers?
Scandal that involved the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
What was the Credit Mobilier scandal.
The disputed election was eventually decided by this.
A commission of Supreme Court justices, senators, and representatives.
Military leaders were put in place until the majority of voters pledged allegiance to the Union under this bill.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
Secretary of War whom President Johnson sought to remove from office.
Who was Edwin Stanton?
Denial of the right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
Because his private secretary was involved in this swindle, Grant hesitated to demand a thorough investigation.
What was the Whiskey Ring?
Georgia was readmitted to the Union on this date.
What was July 15, 1870.
Southern legislatures passed these laws that limited the rights of black people.
What were black codes?
This extreme Radical would have become president if Johnson had been found guilty of violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Who was Benjamin Wade?
Law that imposed heavy penalties against terrorist groups.
What was the Ku Klux Klan Act?
Corrupt leader of Tammany Hall.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
Name given to the South for its commitment to the Democratic Party.
What was the Solid South?