Plans for Reconstruction
10%
This amendment abolished slavery
13th
Ulysses S Grant
This group of people were intend on returning the south to its pre-war ways (eliminating rights for black people being a top priority) and were willing to use any means necessary. Saw themselves as "saviors" of the south.
The Redeemers
These laws were enacted in Southern states with the intention of controlling the freed population, limiting black civil rights, and getting around anti-slavery laws.
Black codes
This bill was proposed by Radical Republicans and required that 50% of southerner take an oath of loyalty before being readmitted. It was eventually vetoed by Lincoln.
Wade-Davis Bill
This amendment says the right to vote can't be denied because of race
15th
Boss Tweed's notorious corruption of the New York government was run through this.
Tammany Hall/ Tweed ring
This violent domestic terrorist group became one of the leading "redeemer" groups in the south, using violence and intimidation to scare black Americans and republicans from voting and participating in politics in the south.
Ku Klux Klan
This government institution's primary purpose was to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom by providing education, food, clothes, and assistance.
The Freedman's Bureau
This group in Congress opposed Lincoln's lenient plan and wanted to punish the South
Radical Republicans
This amendment defined citizenship and granted equal protection and due process
14th
This scandal entailed a network of distillers, distributers, and corrupt US Internal Revenue and Treasury officials conspiring to cheat the federal government out of millions of dollars in taxes on whiskey.
Whiskey Ring
This agreement gave Rutherford B Hayes the presidency in the contested 1877 election in exchange for giving home-rule back to the south, removing federal troops from the south, and effectively ending Reconstruction.
The Compromise of 1877
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Corrupt Bargain
This was a group of southerners who supported northern reconstruction efforts
scalawags
Under Johnson's plan, states had to void secession, ratify THIS amendment that banned slavery, and pay back Confederate debt.
13th amendment
What southern laws were the Civil Rights Act intended to counter?
Black codes
This scandal entailed a fake company made to finance the building of the Transcontinental RR that allowed people to charge the government inflated prices for supplies and pocket the excess. Additionally, shares in the RR and the company were sold to Congressmen to keep them quiet.
Credit Mobilier
Agricultural labor system where a landowner allows a tenant farmer to use a plot of land in exchange for a share of the crops produced at harvest time.
sharecropping
What was the vision for the "New South" that some southern leaders had as a way to bring the southern economy out of ruin after the Civil War?
More manufacturing and industrialization. Move away from agriculture
Under Radical reconstruction, how did Republicans manage to have a consistent majority in Congress that allowed them to pass so many bills?
They made it difficult for southerners to rejoin congress.
This act granted citizenship and equal rights to African Americans and was vetoed by Johnson
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
This man became president under the Compromise of 1877, also called the "Corrupt Bargain"
Rutherford B Hayes
Crop-lien system
This 1867 law mandated dividing the south into 5 military districts
The Reconstruction Act of 1867