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This economic system suggests that a country should maximize its productive capacity, protect the ownership of property using laws, even if the owners of property aren't the people who use it, and have corporations, which limit the risk to investors.
Capitalism
This talented and agressive Union general led the effort to capture the Mississippi River from the Confederates, and would go on to lead the Union armies to victory against Robert E. Lee. He would later serve as President, attempting to enforce Reconstruction on the South.
Ulysses S. Grant
This "Reconstruction Amendment" prevents the right to vote from being taken away based on a person's race, color, or if they were previously enslaved.
15th Amendment
This economic system involves the growing of "cash crops" for profit on large farms which typically used enslaved people for labor. It declined significantly in the USA following the end of the Civil War.
Plantation Economy
This Republican president was elected in the controversial Election of 1876, even though he lost the popular vote. As part of the compromise made to get him elected, he ended Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Also called "The Corrupt Bargain", this event occured because of the disputed election between the Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes and the Democrat, Samuel J. Tilden. It resulted in the election of Hayes, but the end of Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
This economic system involves factories which manufacture goods on a large scale which are sold for profit. It would become the dominant economic system in the USA after the Civil War.
Industrial Economy
This social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman helped advocate for the end of slavery, helped advocate for women’s suffrage, lead the Freedmen's Bureau, and advocated for the rights of those freed from slavery.
Frederick Douglass
This is an economic term describing a long-lasting downturn in the productivity of an economy. Less severe versions of this are called “recessions”.
Depression
This was the belief that American settlers were certain to and inevitably would expand westward across North America. This resulted in a series of “Frontier Wars” with Native Americans.
Manifest Destiny
This "Reconstruction Amendment" ended slavery, except as punishment for a crime, in the United States.
13th Amendment
This Northern Democrat ran as Abraham Lincoln's vice president under the "National Union" ticket, and became President when he was assassinated. When President, he allowed the South to go back to the way it was before the Civil War, which led to him being impeached.
Andrew Johnson
This "Reconstruction Amendment" is sometimes called the "Second American Revolution", making everyone born in America a citizen, requiring the state apply the law equally to everyone, and establishes that "life, liberty, and property" can't be taken away from people without the "due process of law", among other things.
14th Amendment