VOCAB./KEY TERMS!
This group of people in government favored abolishing slavery and advocated full rights for former slaves in the South.
WHO ARE RADICAL REPUBLICANS?
This agency established by Congress in March 1865 to provide social, educational, and economic services as well as advice and protection former slaves.
WHAT IS THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU?
In the South, a Republican Party organization led by African Americans - became an important organizing device after 1865.
WHAT ARE UNION LEAGUES?
This was one of the several vigilante groups that terrorized black people in the South during Reconstruction Era founded by Confederate veterans in 1866. Name the iconic founder too.
WHAT IS THE KU KLUX KLAN? WHO IS JAMES CROWE?
Before being President or in politics, Andrew Johnson actually held this job as an occupation, from this state and of this party.
WHAT IS A TAILOR, FROM TENNESSEE, A DEMOCRAT?
When building the Transcontinental Railroad, what two major companies helped in its completion, what major obstacle was in place in the west? What exactly helped them work around this?
WHAT IS THE UNION PACIFIC AND CENTRAL PACIFIC / SIERRA NEVADA? / WHAT IS DYNAMITE?
These vocab./key terms refer to the labor system that evolved during and after Reconstruction whereby landowners gave laborers with house, farm, animals, tools, advanced credit in exchange for land. This other term also refers to laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights to citizenship to newly freed people.
WHAT IS SHARECROPPING? WHAT ARE BLACK CODES?
Andrew Johnson became President after Lincoln was assassinated by this person at this location.
WHO IS JOHN WILKES BOOTH? / WHAT IS FORD'S THEATRE?
Blacks in the South this as the number one thing as proof of their own independence and freedom. This iconic black reformer fought for this institution as well.
WHAT IS THE SCHOOLHOUSE? / WHO IS W.E.B DU BOIS?
President Grant sent in federal troops to this state under this notorious Civil War leader to suppress KKK violence .
WHAT IS LOUISIANA / WHO IS GENERAL PHILIP SHERIDAN?
Rutherford B. Hayes was compromise for the Presidency/. What state was he from? What party was he from? And who did he defeat in his controversial ascension to the Presidency in 1876?
WHAT IS OHIO, WHAT IS REPUBLICAN, WHO IS SAMEUL J. TILDEN?
These four groups of Americans during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad were instrumental in it's completion.
WHO ARE...
1. CHINESE.
2. IRISH
3. BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICANS
4. FORMER CIVIL WAR VETERANS
These three vocab./terms refer to the three different eras of Reconstruction in America's post Civil War history.
WHAT IS PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION, CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION, REDEMPTION?!
These were the three conditions that Johnson stipulated for the South to rejoin the Union and the types of provisions offered to former Confederate leaders.
WHAT IS,...
1. THEY HAD TO ADMIT SECESSION WAS ILLEGAL
2. ACCEPT 13TH AMENDMENT
3. PARDONS TO CONFEDERATE LEADERS?
These were the names and states of the first black Senator and first House members elected in the Reconstruction era.
WHO ARE HIRAM REVELS OF MISSISSIPPI? / WHO IS JOSEPH RAINY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
This notorious measure passed by Congress and signed by Grant allowed for investigation and action when Southern held elections were not fair. It also declared voter intimidation a federal crime.
WHAT ARE THE ENFORCEMENT ACTS?
Andrew Johnson became the first president to have two distinctions while in office. What were they?
WHAT IS HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED? / FIRST PRESIDENT TO ACTIVELY CAMPAIGN AGAINST OPPOSING POLITICAL PARTY?
In the American west, what iconic crop feeds the world? How much is produced today? What unfortunate animal brought havoc on this crop?
WHAT IS WHEAT ? / 50 MILLION TONS / WHAT ARE LOCUSTS?
This vocab./key term refers to a disparaging term for southern whites who supported the Southern Republican Party during Reconstruction. This other vocab./key term refers to term used by white Southerners for Northern transplants who came to the South to help with Reconstruction.
WHAT ARE SCALAWAGS? WHAT ARE CAREPETBAGGERS?
These two leaders, one from the Senate and one from the House proposed and lead the fight for Congressional Reconstruction.
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WHO ARE ...?
1. CHARLES SUMNER?
2. THADDEUS STEVENS?
This Special Field Order No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by this iconic Civil War hero was to allot this key resource to many freed families in the South
WHO IS WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN / WHAT IS 40 ACRES AND MULE? ( TO OWN LAND AND ANIMALS).
These three states were contested in the notorious election of 1876 and took center-stage for election controversy.
WHAT ARE LOUISIANA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH CAROLINA?
Grant was a war hero right after the Civil War because of his success at this Civil War battle where Lincoln soon after gave him control of the Union Army. Grant also had previous wartime experience in this war too.
WHAT IS VICKSBURG? / WHAT IS THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR?
The buffalo were incredibly important to white settlers and Indians. Cite some of its uses.
WHAT ARE INDUSTRIAL BELTS, CLOTHING SHOES, ,BOWSTRINGS, CUPS/SPOONS, CLOTHING, TEEPEES, COFFINS?
WHAT IS...
13 - Abolished slavery
14 - Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans
15 - Right to vote not based on race or former status of servitude
This was the type of crime Johnson had committed for his impeachment and the final vote for impeachment in the Senate.
WHAT IS HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS / TENURE OF OFFICE ACT / 35 GUILTY AND 19 NOT GUILTY?
These were the top four items most heavily sharecropped by newly freed blacks in the Reconstruction South.
WHAT ARE COTTON, TOBACCO, RICE AND SUGAR?
This notorious court case in 1896 stated that separate by equal facilities were acceptable under the US Constitution. This was the Supreme Court Chief Justice who oversaw this decision.
WHAT IS PLESSY V. FERGUSON / WHO IS MELVILLE FULLER?
This notorious scandal rocked the Grant Administration and what did it involve?
WHAT IS THE CREDIT MOBILIER SCANDAL? / RAILROAD PAYBACKS TO ADMINISTRATION?
The settling of the American West, Great Plain Indian populations become very minimized. Who were/are four major Great Plains Indian groups.
WHO ARE Apache, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Sioux?