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A sham corporation set up by shareholders in the Union Pacific Railroad to secure government grants at an enormous profit.
What is Crédit Mobilier?
The Supreme Court decision in 1875 that ruled that suffrage rights were not inherent in citizenship and had not been granted by the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Minor vs Happerset?
A labor system by which landowners and impoverished farmworkers divided the proceeds from crops harvested on the landowner's property with local merchants providing supplies.
What is Sharecropping?
Notorious system, begun during Reconstruction, where southern state officials allowed private companies to hire out prisoners to labor under brutal conditions in mines and other industries.
What is convict leasing?
Where did women first win the right to vote?
In Wyoming through territorial law (Double points if someone can name two key people in the fight for Women's rights to vote)
The Political Ideology of individual liberty, private property, a competitive market economy, free trade, and limited government.
What is classical Liberalism?
A trial triggered by revelations made by free love advocate and journalist Victoria Woodhull exposed the unconventional sexual relationship between a leading New York abolitionist pastor and his congregants.
What is Beecher- Tilton Scandal?
A law that required "full and equal" access to jury service and to transportation and public accommodations, irrespective of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
A secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholics, and Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Why and how did federal Reconstruction policies falter in the South?
Because those who held power in the South were heavily opposed to reforms. (Double points if someone can answer: How the federal reconstruction policies affected the North?)
A group of decisions began in 1873 in which the Court began to undercut the power of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect African American rights.
What is Slaughter House-Cases?
A series of 1883 Supreme Court decisions that struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, rolling back key Reconstruction laws and paving the way for later decisions that sanctioned segregation.
What is Civil Rights Cases?
A plan proposed by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, which allowed each state to return to the union as soon as 10 percent of its voters had taken loyalty oaths.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
A bill proposed by Congress in July 1864 that required an oath of allegiance by a majority of each state’s adult white men, new governments formed only by those who had never taken up arms against the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Who was the Unionist Democrat who became the president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
Andrew Johnson. (Double points if someone can tell us from which years he was in term.)
A women’s suffrage organization led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and others who remained loyal to the Republican Party, despite its failure to include women’s voting rights in the Reconstruction amendments.
What is the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA)?
An Act that divided the conquered South into five military districts, under the commands of a U.S. general, former Confederate states had to grant the vote to freedmen and deny it to leading ex-confederates.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Constitutional amendment ratified in 1869 that forbade states to deny citizens the right to vote on grounds of race, color, or "previous conditions of servitude."
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
Constitutional Amendment ratified in 1868, made all natural-born or naturalized persons U.S citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Who led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Later elected the 18th President of the United States?
Ulysses S. Grant (Double points if someone can answer from what years he was in term for?)
Headed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony that stressed the need for women to lead organizations on their own behalf, focusing only on Women's rights.
What is the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)?
Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War that denied ex-slaves the civil rights enjoyed by whites, and tried to force African Americans back to plantation labor systems, are part of the history of race relations in the U.S. since the end of slavery.
What is the Black Codes
Government organization created in March 1865 to aid displaced blacks and other war refugees. First federal agency in history that provided direct payments to assist those in poverty a d to foster social welfare
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Legislation passed by Congress that nullified the Black Codes and affirmed that African Americans should have equal benefits of the law.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
What are the 13th through 15th Reconstruction Amendments?
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US. The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. (Double points if someone can tell us who passed the reconstruction amendments)