Politics
Who won the election of 1868?
Ulysses S Grant
These people tried to intimidate African Americans in the South and restore the South to what it was before the Civil War.
The Ku Klux Klan
What is one reason why Grant's presidency is not seen as a success?
1. No political experience
2. Underqualified and dishonest administration
3. His VP was caught up in a major scandal
The system in which landowners provide farm workers with land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
Sharecropping
Who were knocker-uppers
People that made a career of knocking on your windows before alarm clocks existed.
How did Radical Republicans react to Lincoln's Reconstruction plans?
They hated his plan. They felt that he was being too lenient
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Ended slavery in the United States
What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
Two major companies bribed politicians into allowing the government to pay extremely inflated railroad construction costs
The system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash
Tenant Farming
There is only 1 recorded loss for this Hall of Fame wrestler from the 1830s... He wrestled in about 300 matches.
Abraham Lincoln
Why did Congress attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from office?
Violation of the Tenure of Office Act. Also because Congress felt that he was not enforcing Reconstruction acts.
What did the 14th Amendment do?
Stated that all persons born or naturalized in the US are citizens. Allowing former slaves to become US citizens.
Which economic event took some of the focus away from the goals of Reconstruction?
The Panic of 1873
These are restrictive laws enacted immediately after the Civil War in the South designed to limit the freedoms of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery had ended.
Black Codes
President Zachary Taylor allegedly died from gorging on what?
Milk and cherries
What was Lincoln's 10% Plan?
If 10% of the voters in Southern states swore allegiance to the US they could form a new government
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What did the Supreme Court establish in Plessy v Ferguson?
Segregation is legal, upholding "separate but equal" claims
These were imposed towards the end of Reconstruction. Laws that enforced racial segregation and further limited the rights of African Americans, focusing on segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
In 18th century England, this fruit was flaunted if you were wealthy enough to own it.
Pineapple
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Proposed by Radical Republicans, required a majority of white males in the South to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union and impose strict conditions for reentry.
He was the first African American to serve as a US Senator
Hiram Revels
What did Rutherford B Hayes agree to when he was appointed president?
Removal of federal troops from the South, give government money to build railroads and repair damage in the South, and appoint Conservative Southerners to his cabinet
The idea that Southern states should govern themselves without federal interference, especially after the Civil War
Home Rule
What kind of pet did Andrew Jackson most notably own?
A parrot