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This President's two terms were bogged down by scandals.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This was the name given to the major depression when banks failed.
What is the Panic of 1873
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes
This Act transferred all Federal Elections from State control to Federal control.
What is The Second Force Act
This man coined the term "Gilded Age"
Who was Mark Twain?
This was the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson
This happened when the Secretary of the Treasury John Sanborn decided to keep 50% of the tax money collected
What was the Sanborn Scandal
This was the name of the Reconstruction plan proposed by Lincoln.
What is the 10% Plan
These are white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
What are scalawags
This was organized to help ex-slaves with food, medical care, resettlement, and education
What is Freedmen's Bureau
This former Confederate general was one of the founding members of the KKK.
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
This scandal centered around taxes on alcohol.
What was the Whiskey Ring?
This Amendment called for the full abolition of Slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This is the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South
What are carpetbaggers
This Amendment guarantees the right to vote regardless of race or creed.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Congressman headed the Radical Republicans and called for harsher terms for the South to reenter the Union. He also pushed for full equality of the newly freed population.
Who Was Thaddeus Stevens?
This scandal was all about Jay Gould and his Gold.
What was Black Friday?
This Amendment stated that all people born within the United States are considered citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This is a financial arrangement in which a tenant farmer pays for use of land with a portion of the crop raised on that land
What is sharecropping
This was the name of the time period during Ulysses S Grant's presidency.
What is the Gilded Age?
This Secretary of War caused a major issue for the president when he refused to leave his office.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
The election of this president essentially ended Reconstruction.
Who was Hayes?
This law divided the Southern states into military districts in order to implement Reconstruction.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
This law made it illegal for people to dress up and restrict the constitutional rights of citizens.
What is the First Enforcement Act?
This act of Congress made it illegal to fire any government official without a congressional hearing.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?