1865-72: aid to newly freed slaves, provided food, medical care, education and legal support, depended on local groups
Freedmen's Bureau
100
Extreme secret society founded after the Civil War - Anti- foreign, jewish, black, pacifist, communist, botlegger
Ku Klux Klan
100
1865-66: passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of blacks, particularly to negotiate contracts, increased the North's criticisms of Jackson's reconstruction plan
Black Codes
100
1870-71: passed after KKK violence, prohibited the use of violence to prohibit blacks from voting and gave military the authority to enforce the acts
Force Acts
100
1866: passed over Jackson's veto, tried to counteract black codes by giving citizenship to A.A.s and making it a crime to deprive them of the right to sue, testify or hold property
Civil Rights Bill
200
1868: gave civil rights to freedmen and prohibited states from taking away those rights without due process
Fourteenth Amendment
200
1863: proposed by Lincoln, states would be readmitted to the Union after 10% of voters pledged loyalty to US and promised to honor emancipation - unsuccessful
10 Percent Reconstruction Plan
200
1870: prohibits states from denying citizens the right to vote based on race
Fifteenth Amendment
200
1862: funded construction of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad with use of land grants and government bonds
Pacific Railroad Act
200
Term for pro-union southerners whom Southern Democrats accused of plundering the resources of the South in partnership with the Republican gov't after the War
Scalawags
300
1867: Purchase of Alaska from Russia, reflected the anti-expansionist feelings immediately following the Civil War
Seward's Folly
300
1867: divides South into military zones, disenfranchised former Confederates and required states to ratify the 14th amendment before readmission to the Union
Reconstruction Act
300
Use of Civil War images by political candidates and parties to draw votes to their side of the ticket
Waving the bloody shirt
300
1866: Supreme Court rules that military tribunals can;t be used to try civilians if civil courts are open
Ex Parte Milligan
300
1872: construction company created to get gov't contracts to build railroads at inflated prices, bribed congressmen and the VP to allow it to continue
Credit Mobilier Scandal
400
1877-96: term used to describe the era of fabulous wealth and widespread corruption
Gilded Age
400
1882: Prohibited most Chinese immigration to the US, first major immigration restriction in US history
Chinese Exclusion Act
400
Promised blacks equal access to public accommodations, banned racism in jury selection, no means of enforcement
Civil Rights Act of 1875
400
1892: strike at Carnegie Steel plant, ended in armed battle between strikers, Pinkerton detectives and federal troops, helped Populists gain support from industrial workers
Homestead Strike
400
System of racial segregation in American South, based on "separate but equal" facilities, informal system enforced by custom, violence and intimidation
Jim Crow
500
1896: upheld segregation, "separate but equal" is legal
Plessy v Ferguson
500
Ended Reconstruction, Hayes becomes president and removes federal troops from the South
Compromise of 1877
500
1883: created Civil Service Commission, gave federal jobs based on exams, ended the Spoils system
Pendleton Act
500
Black and white farmers rent land from plantation owners in exchange for a share of each year's harvest - leads to perpetual debt for black farmers
Sharecropping
500
1890s: removed the poll tax/literacy test for anyone who could prove that thier ancestors were allowed to vote in 1860, used to keep AA from voting