People
She was a Union scout and spy during the Civil War
This amendment gave the right to vote to African American men
15th
First African American Senators from Mississippi
Blanch K. Bruce and Hiram Revels
the Lost Cause
Currency issued by the federal government during the Civil War
greenbacks
She opposed the 15th Amendment because it did not give women the right to vote
Susan B. Anthony
Slave states that did not secede from the Union
Border states
Government agency designed to assisted newly emancipated enslaved people
the Freedman's Bureau
Laws that demanded African Americans prove their employment or be subject to arrest
vagrancy laws
This act opened the West to small farmers
the Homestead Act
He was killed by his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville
Stonewall Jackson
This plan divided the South in 5 military districts and would enforce Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Buildings that served as community centers, schools and political leadership
Churches
System of parcelling shares of land to families in exchange for a portion of profit
sharecropping
Party that instituted a wave of violence that would intimidate African American voters
the Mississippi Plan
He supported the 13th Amendment and African American equal rights during Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Codes that restricted the rights of freedmen and women in the South
Black Codes
Terrorist organized that committed murder, rape and arson against African Americans and those whites who desired to help them
the Ku Klux Klan
Associations in the South led by southern women dedicated to rebuilding prewar social hierarchy
Ladies Memorial Association
Conditions that had to met in order to concede the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes
Union troops removed from the South
Special economic and political favors for the South
He ran for president against Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Congressional response to Black Codes
the Civil Rights Act of 1866
This theory interpreted the Constitution as already giving women the right to vote
the New Departure
Group in the South that aided freedpeople during the war in which three hundred African American women participated
the Patriotic Association
Free black community formed in Mississippi to insulate African Americans from racial violence and segregation
Mound Bayou