Key Terms
Laws aimed at taking away the rights of African Americans.
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Black Codes
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Johnson is the first, but not the last to be...
Impeached
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The period of time after the Civil War that was an attempt to rebuild America, allow the South back into the Union and to heal as a nation.
Reconstruction
Where is Ulysses S. Grant buried? Name the place and city.
Grant's Tomb, NYC
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He became president in 1877 and ended Reconstruction.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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A government agency that helped freed slaves receive food, employment, medical care and education after the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
Johnson clashed with Congress, especially this group of politicians that held a majority in Congress.
Radical Republicans
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States—including former slaves—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.”
14th Amendment
Which amendment did Grant pass/ratify? What did it do?
15th Amendment
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Secession, not slavery, caused the Civil War.
Confederate soldiers were heroic and fought for their way of life.
Robert E. Lee was a hero
Are all part of what belief?
The Lost Cause
A system of employment in which landowners tried to keep farmers in debt. Not allowing renters to sell crops they harvested, and making them agree to unfair contracts.
sharecropping
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Even though Johnson vetoed this amendment, Congress overrode his veto, marking the first time that the U.S. Congress ever overrode a presidential veto for a major piece of legislation.
14th Amendment
This stated that if you or your descendants voted before 1866 you did not have to take a literacy test, or pay a poll tax.
Grandfather clause
Grant did all of the following except...
Pass the 15th Amendment
Create Yellowstone National Park
End Reconstruction
Pass the Ku Klux Klan Act
End Reconstruction
A myth of the Civil War that attempts to preserve Southern honor by showing the Confederate defeat in the best possible light.
The Lost Cause
The Radical Republicans had a plan to take away land from Confederates and give it to freed slaves.
40 acres and a mule
Give 3 reasons why Andrew Johnson was considered a bad president.
Thin-skinned, stubborn, allowed former Confederates back into office, did not care about the rights of African Americans, racist...
What were the 3 amendments passed during Reconstruction and what did they do?
13th-ends slavery
14th-African Americans are citizens
15th-African American men could vote
Name 4 things Grant did as president.
Created Yellowstone National Park
15th Amendment
Department of Justice
Ku Klux Klan Act 1871
One of the closest and controversial in American history. Democrat Samuel Tilden versus Republican Rutherford B. Hayes.
Election of 1876
They wanted to punish the South and make sure African Americans had equal rights.
Radical Republicans
Why did Congress try to remove Johnson from office?
Johnson tried to remove someone form office, illegal, unconstitutional.
What was one of the positive effects during Reconstruction?
African American men were able to vote.
African Americans were elected into office (congressmen, senators)
After his presidency, Grant id famous for...
writing his memoirs, autobiography
Hayes agrees to remove troops from the South. Agrees to give more aid to the South. Agrees to end Reconstruction.
The Compromise of 1877