APUSH chapter 22

freedmans bureau

to provide food clothing medical care and education to freedmen and white refugees

10 percent plan

a state could be brought back into the union when 10 percent of its votes take an oath of allegiance to the US

wade davis bill

required ten percent of a states voters to take an oath of allegiance

the black codes

series of laws passed by mississippi to regulate affairs of the emancipated, curfews, labor contract

pacific railroad act

authorized the Transcontinental Railroad, giving grants and government bonds to build from Omaha & Sacramento eastward to unite the nation

fourteenth amendment

defining national citizenship for all born or naturalized. guaranteeing Due Process and Equal Protection under the law to all citizens, and invalidating the Dred Scott decision

reconstruction act

divided the south int five military districts

fifteenth amendment

granted black men the right to vote

ex parte milligan

Supreme Court case affirming that civilians cannot be tried in military tribunals if civil courts are open during wartime

redeemers

white, pro-Democratic Southerners who regained control of Southern governments after Reconstruction, aiming to get back the South

womens loyal league

gained 400,000 signatures on petition asking congress to prohibit slavery

union league

focused on building black churches and schools

scalawags

southerners believed these white republicans stole treasures of southern states through political influence

carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved South after the Civil War, seen by Southerners as opportunistic

tenure of office act

required the president to get permission from senate before he could remove his appointees

sewards folly

U.S. Secretary of State William 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million