Reconstruction
The 10% Plan for Reconstruction was created by this person.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This law was vetoed by Andrew Johnson for, according to him, violating states' rights. Congress passed it over his veto.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This term refers to people, often White farmers, who attacked, killed, and terrorized African Americans and White Republicans in the South under the cover of darkness.
What are Night Riders?
Southern states found loopholes in the 15th amendment and made these requirements for voting (state one).
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather laws?
He was the former Union general whose presidency was marred by scandal.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
His plan for Reconstruction included returning confiscated land to ex-rebels.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This law divided the south into five districts that were run by the military.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
Most White Republicans in the south were made of this group.
Who are northerners that moved south after the Civil War (carpetbaggers)?
This was the term for the labor system in the South after the war where landowners rented out a portion of their land to farmers.
What is sharecropping?
He won the election of 1876 after negotiating the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
This was the term given to the faction within one of the major parties that wanted strict requirements for Reconstruction that included protections against discrimination.
Who are Radical Republicans?
Andrew Johnson violated this law by firing the Secretary of War, resulting in his impeachment.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
In order to drive White people out of the Republican party, southern Democrats blamed this on the Republican Party in the 1870s.
What are economic hardships?
This was the paramilitary group that formed in the South after the Civil War that terrorized and inflicted violence on African Americans and White Republicans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
He was the Democratic nominee for president in the contested election of 1876?
Who is Samuel J Tilden?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This entity was created by Congressional legislation in order to provide food, clothing, education, and job opportunities to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This was the term for Southern Whites in the Republican Party.
What are scalawags?
This group of Supreme Court cases said that the 14th Amendment only protected individual rights that stemmed from the federal government, not states.
What are the Slaughterhouse cases?
He was the Secretary of War during the Civil War who was illegally fired by Andrew Johnson.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
This was one of the three basic desires of Southern African Americans during Reconstruction.
What are suffrage, land ownership, and education?
One of the two co-sponsors of the bill passed by Congress that was pocket vetoed by Lincoln that would have require 50% of the population of Southern states to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
Who are Benjamin Davis or Henry Wade?
This was the self given name of Southern Democrats who won office in the South after Reconstruction efforts eroded away.
What are redeemers?
This phrase has come to refer to broken promises in the Black community as a result of a lack of lasting land reform during Reconstruction.
What is "40 acres and a mule"?
This Radical Republican member of the House of Representatives supported giving 40 acres confiscated land to every adult male former slave. (Hint: you read a document of a speech he gave to Congress)
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?