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Offered a general amnesty to all Southerners who took an oat of loyalty to the United States and accepted the Union's proclamations concerning slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This secret society was created by former Confederate soldiers to terrorize African Americans and white supporters of Reconstruction.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
They did not want to reconcile with the South. Instead they wanted to change Southern institutions, habits, and cultures.
Who are Radical Republicans?
100
Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers.
What are black codes?
100
A secret society similar to the KKK that pledged to support the supremacy of the white race.
What is The Knights of the White Camellia?
200
A former Civil War general who was elected in 1868 and reelected in 1872, despite administrative scandals, economic crisis, and a party split.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
Established by congress to feed and cloth war refugees in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
A compromise bill that required the majority of adult white males in the south to take an oath of allegiance to the Union and required state conventions to abolish slavery, reject debts, and deprive Confederate officials the right to vote or hold office.
What is The Wade-Davis Bill?
200
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
The president's indirect veto of a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill.
What is a pocket veto?
300
The 1876 Republican nominee for president, who ran on a platform of morality and ending reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
300
African American communities in the South would meet here for social gathering, schools, and political gatherings.
What is the church?
300
A decision made by a 15 person commission on disputed electoral votes. Resulted in the removal of the Union Army from the South.
What is The Compromise of 1877?
300
Outlawed the activities of the Klan.
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?
300
The powerful banking firm that collapsed in 1873, causing the stock market to plummet.
What is Jay Cooke and Company?
400
Took over the presidency after Lincoln's assassination and narrowly escaped impeachment.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans.
Who are the carpetbaggers?
400
In this scandal, government officials and distillers in St. Louis filed false tax reports, cheating the government out of millions of dollars.
What is the Whisky Ring scandal?
400
Wiped out Johnson's programs and divided the confederacy into five military districts.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
400
The Liberal Republican and Democrat nominee for president in 1872.
Who is Horace Greeley?
500
The democratic party candidate that narrowly lost the 1876 election to Rutherford Hayes.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
500
Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction of the South.
Who are scalawags?
500
Gaining money illegally through politics.
What is Graft?
500
Taxes on alcohol and tobacco.
What are the sin taxes?
500
President Johnson's Secretary of War
Who is Edwin M. Stanton?