Big Deals
According to this deal, Rutherford B. Hayes would become president as long as he brought an end to Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights activist who worked tirelessly for a federal anti-lynching law.
Ida B. Wells
This was the reaction of Congress to Andrew Johnson testing the Tenure of Office Act.
Johnson was impeached.
The plan that called for Confederate states to be readmitted after 10% of the voting population of 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the U.S. was proposed by him.
Abraham Lincoln
This was the name given t northerners who moved to the south after the Civil War either to help, or to make easy money.
Carpetbaggers
This guaranteed the right of black Americans to ride trains an use other public accommodations, but left it to the states to determine how those rights would be applied.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
First black man to earn a doctorate from Harvard.
W.E.B. DuBois
These laws strengthened segregation for nearly a century.
Jim Crow laws
This plan called for Confederate states to be readmitted when 50% of the voting population in 1860 took an oath of allegiance, and swore that they had always been loyal.
Wade-Davis Bill
This was the name given to southerners who joined the Republican Party.
Scalawags
This made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote.
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
He founded the Tuskegee Institute, which taught industrial education to blacks. He also argued that blacks should accommodate themselves to segregation, and "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."
Booker T. Washington
This system kept black farmers in continual debt, unable to get ahead or purchase land.
Sharecropping
These people wanted Reconstruction to be more harsh than Lincoln did.
Radical Republicans
This was the 1875 scandal involving federal officials and distillers that made people lose faith in the Republican Party.
Whiskey Ring
This forbade any state from denying the right to vote on the grounds of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
He challenged the Tenure of Office Act, leading to a huge fight with Congress.
Andrew Johnson
These laws limited the rights of black citizens and kept them as landless workers.
Black Codes
This body was formed to provide food, clothing, land, tools and education fro recently freed black slaves.
Freedmen's Bureau
These laws protected the right to vote to those whose grandfathers had voted prior to 1867.
Grandfather Clauses
This guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens. Any state interfering with the civil rights of black citizens would lose the number of seats in the House that were represented by its black citizens.
14th Amenment
He was the leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Thaddeus Stevens
These laws required people to pay a tax in order to vote.
Poll Tax
This act of Congress began to overturn Black Codes.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This banned slavery in the U.S.
13th Amendment