Vocab
What is the term for the act of granting pardon to a large group of people?
What is amnesty?
What was the name given to Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction of the south?
What were Scalawags?
Who was the Leader of the Radical Republicans that argued in the House for the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
What was the emergency aid and education service established by the Radical Republicans to serve the needs of poor whites and freed former slaves in the south?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
What act enacted by President Grant and the Congress made Ku Klux Klan activities in the South a federal crime?
What is the Ku Klux Klan Act?
What is it called when the president doesn't directly veto a bill but instead lets the session of Congress expire without signing the bill?
What is a Pocket Veto?
What is the term that mens acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician?
what is Graft?
Who became president after the assassination of Lincoln and also had a very lenient plan for reconstruction?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What organization was established in the south by horse riding former soldiers who worked to oppose reconstruction and the republicans and had repeater rifles?
Who were the Regulators?
Southern Democrats in the late 1870s called for all whites in the south to ________________ the south from "Black Republican" rule.
What is Redeem?
What were the laws passed in the south just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers called?
What are Black Codes?
What is the term for a federal tax on alcohol and tobacco?
what is a "sin tax?"
What former Civil War General became president during Reconstruction?
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
What group similar to the regulators arose in the south during Reconstruction known for wearing white hoods and terrorizing African American populations in the South?
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
What is the term for the condition of sharecroppers who could not pay off their debts and, therefore, could not leave the property they worked?
What is Debt Peonage?
What is the term for a formal change against a public official of misconduct while in office?
What is to Impeachment?
What is the term for a farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent in either cash or crops?
What is a Tenant Farmer?
Who Became President in 1877 in a highly disputed election where he won less electoral votes than his opponent but Congress voted to give all the disputed votes to him in what became known as the Compromise of 1877?
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
What was the name given to the far right Republicans that pushed for full civil rights for African Americans after the Civil War?
Who were the Radical Republicans?
What is the term for an obligation placed on a farmer to repay a debt with crops?
What is a crop lien?
What was the name given to Northerners who moved to the South during reconstruction and supported the Republicans?
What were Carpetbaggers
What is the term for a farmer who works land for an owner who provides equipment and seed and receives a share of the crop?
What is a "Sharecropper?"
Who was Secretary of state under two different presidents and negotiated for the purchase of Alaska while serving Andrew Johnson?
Who was William Seward?
In 1876 what were nearly 40% (600,000) African American students in the south able to do?
what is attend school?
Who became President in 1868?
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?