Important people
Union General who became president
Ulysses Grant
The task of “binding up the nations wounds”
Reconstruction
This act ordered the army to ensure that the south complied with congressional mandates. It also divided the south into five military districts
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Northerners who moved to the southern states
Carpetbaggers
Tickets were sold for Andrew Johnson’s ?
Impeachment
Leading Radical Republican in the House of Representatives
Thaddeus Stevens
Grantism is synonymous with
Corruption
This act made it illegal for the president to remove an appointee if they had been approved by the Senate
Tenure of Office Act
Southerners who accepted northern governments
Scalwags
Where in Washington DC was Abraham Lincoln shot ?
Fords Theater
Republican president from 1877 to 1881
Rutherford B. Hayes
Laws passed by southern legislatures to severely limit the rights of black people
Black codes
This amendment granted full citizenship to freedmen
Fourteenth
Secret society organized in 1866 by former confederate soldiers
Ku Klux Klan
What state was Andrew Johnson the governor of ?
Tennessee
Secretary of War fired by President Andrew Johnson
Edwin Stanton
Compromise made between democrats and republicans that eventually ended reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
This amendment abolished slavery
Thirteenth
Short term agency established by Congress to help former slaves and refugees
The Freedmen’s Bureau
This president had to pay a fine for speeding
Ulysses S Grant
Senate leader of the Radical Republicans
Charles Sumner
Name of scandal that occured before President Grant took office
Credit Mobilier Scandal
The radical republicans view of reconstruction was set forth in this bill.
Wade-Davis Bill
Lincoln’s plan for restoring the south
Ten Percent Plan
Who were the two businessmen who tried to gain control of the gold market during Grant’s presidency?
James Fisk and Jay Gould