Democratic President Candidate during the presidential elections of 1876
Who is Samuel Tilden
System in which southern states prisons leased and profited from the work of African-American prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations (prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions)
What is Convict Leasing
the unwritten deal, informally arranged among members of the United States Congress, to settle the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden.
What is the Compromise of 1877
The 3 presidents during Reconstruction from from 1863 to 1877
Who are Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant
These were the members of the Congress who favored policies to force radical changes in Southern life and politics
What are Radical Republicans
The former Confederacy was broken up into five military districts, each to be led by a general. This is called military occupation and gave the generals the power to oversee and control the readmittance of these states into the United States of America.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867