Common term for the blacks newly liberated from slavery
What is freedmen
100
The harsh Southern state laws of 1865 that limited black rights and imposed restrictions to ensure a stable black labor supply.
What are Black Codes?
100
The system that enabled storekeepers to extend credit on small farmers' crops and thus keep them permanently in debt.
What is sharecropping?
100
Asian immigrant group that experienced discrimination on the West Coast.
Who are the Chinese?
100
Name for "soft money"
What are greenbacks?
200
Federal agency that greatly assisted blacks educationally but failed in other aid efforts.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
200
The constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barring former Confederates from office.
What is the 14th amendment?
200
Republican clean government advocates who supported Democrat Cleveland in 1884 because of the corruption of Republican nominee Blaine.
Who are the mugwumps?
200
The complex political agreement between Republicans and Democrats that resolved the bitterly disputed election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
200
System of choosing federal employees on the basis of merit rather than patronage, introduced by the Pendleton Act of 1883.
What is civil service?
300
The largest African-American denomination (church) after slavery.
What is Baptist?
300
Republican Reconstructionists who favored a more rapid restoration of Southern state governments and opposed radical plans for drastic economic transformation of the South.
Who are moderates?
300
Republican Reconstructionists who favored keeping the South out of the federal government until a complete social and economic revolution was accomplished in the region.
Who are radicals?
300
Constitutional amendment granting blacks the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
300
The symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War.
What is "waving the bloody shirt?"
400
Lincoln's 1863 program for a rapid Reconstruction of the South.
What is the 10% plan
400
Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction and sometimes took part in Republican state governments.
Who are scalawags?
400
The black political organization that promoted self-help and defense of political rights.
What is the Union League?
400
Civil War veterans' organization that became a potent political bulwark of the Republican party in the late nineteenth century.
What is the Grand Army of the Republic?
400
Republican party faction, led by Senator Roscoe Conkling, that opposed all attempts at civil service reform.
Who are the Stalwarts?
500
The constitutional amendment freeing all slaves.
What is the 13th amendment?
500
"Seward's Folly," acquired in 1867 from Russia.
What is Alaska?
500
Supreme Court ruling that military tribunals could not try civilians when the civil courts were open.
What is Ex parte milligan?
500
Short-lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption.
What is the Liberal Republican Party?
500
Corrupt construction company whose bribes and payoffs to congressmen and others created a major Grant administration scandal.