Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment formally ends slavery in the Constitution?
Thirteenth Amendment
These politicians fought for civil rights for newly freed Blacks & thought white Southerners needed justice not mercy?
Radical Republicans
How many military districts were created across the South following the Civil War?
Five
Democrats, farmers, and people in the West favored this monetary specie?
Paper cash specie
This was the law passed by Radical Republicans as a reason to impeach and remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency?
Tenure of Office Act
Name the terrorist group that exerted violence and white supremacy in the South in the years following the Civil War?
Ku Klux Klan
This organization provided social services like education, medical care, etc to people in the South after the Civil War?
Freedmen's Bureau
Which political organization was symbolic of the corruption in the Gilded Age?
Tammany Hall
This group benefited from the 15th Amendment?
African American/Black men
Tammany Hall attracted this group of people in its efforts to gain political power in New York City?
Irish immigrants
Name the U.S. President that replaced President Lincoln and served under the Reconstruction period?
President Andrew Johnson
A president known for being a Civil War hero, who gained a bad reputation as President thanks to his corrupt administration?
Ulysses S. Grant
Name one of the civil rights that were protected under the 14th amendment?
right to privileges and immunities
right to equal protection under the law
right to due process
This political party dominated the South once Reconstruction ended?
The Democratic party
Scalawags were considered ____________ among anti-Union Southerns?
Traitors
In the late 1880s, this monetary specie was favored by the wealthy, Northerners and Republicans?
Gold specie
The "party of Lincoln" was the nickname of which political party?
The Republican Party
Which American author created the phrase "Gilded Age"?
Mark Twain
Carpetbaggers were from the _________ who took advantage of the South's misery during Reconstruction?
North
Which two members of Congress were the leaders of the Radical Republicans?
Thaddeaus Stevens and Charles Sumner