Who's Who
He became the President of the United States as a result of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This change to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This term became synonymous for the political incompetence, corruption, and fraud, during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant
What is Grantism?
This term refers to the people's right to vote
What is suffrage?
He was a member of this political party
What is Democratic?
This former Confederate general was selected as the first leader or "grand wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan
Who is Nathan Bedford Forest?
This change to the U.S. Constitution granted blacks the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This political organization ran the government of New York City and pocketed millions of taxpayer dollars while bribing elected officials so that they could continue their shenanigans
What is Tammany Hall?
This term refers to the denial of the right to vote
What is disfranchisement?
This was Andrew Johnson's profession prior to his entry into politics
What is a tailor?
He was the corrupt leader of Tammany Hall
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
This change to the U.S. Constitution defined the rights of all citizens including blacks and former slaves
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
They attempted to make it rich by persuading President Ulysses S. Grant to not release any gold of the U.S. treasury and buying of shares of gold on the New York Stock Exchange and then sell it at inflated prices
Who are James Fisk and Jay Gould?
Term for the local laws that were passed in an attempt to regulate the conduct of the former slaves
What are black codes?
The Senate failed to convict Andrew Johnson of violating the Tenure of Office Act by this many votes
What is one vote?
He was placed in charge of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Who is Oliver O. Howard?
The agency that was established by Congress provided assistance to tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the Southern States and the District of Columbia in the years following the war
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
He was the highest ranking elected official involved in the Crédit Mobilier Scandal
Who is Vice-President Schuyler Colfax?
This term refers to Northern Radical Republicans who moved to the South in the period after the Civil War
What is carpetbagger?
This person taught Andrew Johnson how to read?
Who is his wife (Eliza)?
He was the first black person elected to the U.S. Senate
Who is Hiram Revels?
Congress passed this act to prevent President Johnson from firing Secretary of State Edwin M. Stanton
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
He received $24,000 in bribes in return for granting special licenses men who sought to sell goods to the Indians
Who is Secretary of War William Belknap?
This term refers to a southerner who cooperated with the Radical Republicans
What is a scalawag?
This many Republicans voted in favor of Andrew Johnson's acquittal thus allowing him to retain his seat in the oval office
What is seven?