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Reconstruction-Era African American organization, built black schools and churches, campaigned on behalf of Republican candidates, and recruited local militias to protect blacks from white intimidation.
What is the Union League?
17th President of the United States; when Lincoln was killed, he became president; the first U.S. president to be impeached. Weak President.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Introduced by President Lincoln, it proposed that a state be readmitted to the Union once 10 percent of its voters had pledged loyalty to the United States and promised to honor emancipation.
What is the "10 percent" Reconstruction plan?
To set free from the control of someone or something
What is emancipation?
A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners
What are scalawags?
Prohibited voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)
What is the 15th Amendment?
Head of the Freedmen's Bureau, later founded and served as President of Howard University in Washington D.C.
Who is Oliver Howard?
Invalidated the state governments formed under the Lincoln & Johnson plans and all the legal decisions made by those governments. This act was passed by Congress after being vetoed by the President.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Women's organization formed to help bring about an end to the Civil War and encourage Congress to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery.
What is the Woman's Loyal League?
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
What are carpetbaggers?
Congress created this in 1865 that provided clothing, medical care, food, and education to both freedmen and white refugees
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Popular Secretary of War who is fired by Johnson and leads to Johnson's impeachment
Who is Edwin Stanton?
Passed by Congress following a wave of Ku Klux Klan violence, the acts banned clan membership, prohibited the use of intimidation to prevent blacks from voting, and gave the U.S. military the authority to enforce these acts.
What are the Force Acts?
This bill aimed to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and making it a crime to deprive blacks of their rights to sue, testify in court, or hold property.
What is the Civil Rights Bill?
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
What are the Black Codes?
Secretary of State who was responsible for purchasing Alaskan Territory from Russia.
Who is William Seward?
Required the president to seek approval from the Senate before removing appointees.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Negotiation of the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. At the time everyone thought this was a mistake to buy Alaska the "ice box" but it turned out to be the biggest bargain since the Louisiana purchase
What is Seward's Folly?
Southern Democratic politicians who sought to wrest control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction.
Who are Redeemers?
Citizenship for African Americans, repeal of 3/5 Compromise, denial of former confederate officials from holding national or state office, and reject confederate debts
What is the 14th Amendment?
Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress, believed in harsh punishments for the South.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Civil War Era case in which the Supreme Court ruled that military tribunals could not be used to try civilians if civil courts were open.
What is the Ex Parte Milligan?
1864 Proposed far more demanding terms for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
President Johnson pardoned these people in 1868
What are rebel confederate leaders?