BJU American Republic Chapter 15- "Reconstruction"

Reconstruction

Time of reuniting the nation following the Civil War (1865-1877)

Freedmen

Term used for former slaves following the Civil War

Presidential Reconstruction

Phase I of Reconstruction, led by President Lincoln and Johnson

Ten Percent Plan

Lincoln's plan to allow states to form new governments when 10%of their registered voters took an oath of loyalty to the union

Radical Republican

Wanted the South to be treated as a conquered foreign nation

Wade Davis Bill

Radical Republican plan fort states to enter the Union when 50% of their voters had taken the oath of allegiance

Amnesty

To offer a group parden

Thirteenth Amendment

Abolished slavery

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

Committee of moderate and Radical Republicans determined to take charge of reconstruction

Black codes

Designed to keep freed slaves in subjection and prevent them from exercising their political rights

Thaddeus Stevens

Leader of the Radical Republicans in the House

Charles Sumner

Radical leader in the Senate

Freedman's Bureau

Federal relief agency established to help the freed slaves in the South

Fourteenth Amendment

Granted citizenship to blacks, barred unpardoned Confederates from voting or holding office, eliminated the Three-Fifths Compromise

Radical Reconstruction

Phase II of Reconstruction, led by Radical Republicans in Congress

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Established military rule in the South

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who came south to assist in Reconstruction

Scalawags

White Southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction

Tenure of Office Act

Bill intended to keep President Johnson from dismissing Radical Republican Presidential appointments

Edwin Stanton

Refused to leave as secretary of war

Impeachment

Removed from office for illegal actions

William Seward

Johnson's secretary of state, negotiated the treaty to buy Alaska, know other foreign affairs achievements

Fifteenth Amendment

Kept States from denying blacks the right to vote

Bourbon Reconstruction

Characterized by the return of South Democrats to power

Samuel J. Tilden

Won the popular vote in the election of 1876 but lost the disputed election of Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes

Won the disputed election of 1876

Sharecropping

A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.

Mill Towns

A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles.

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.