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10% Plan

Lincoln's Reconstruction plan that allowed a southern state to form its own government after it abolished slavery and ten percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S.

Wade-Davis Bill

Radical answer to the Ten Percent Plan requiring a majority of voters in southern states to take an 'ironclad' oath of loyalty.

Ideology of the Radical Republicans

Favored harsh punishment of Southern states after Civil War and supported a demanding Reconstruction policy.

Andrew Johnson Impeachment

The House of Representatives impeached Johnson for violating the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

Carpetbagger

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War.

Scalawag

Southern whites who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction.

Reconstruction Amendments

13th abolished slavery, 14th granted citizenship to freedmen, and 15th gave former slaves the right to vote.

Whiskey Ring

A scandal during Grant's administration involving officials cheating the treasury out of taxes on whiskey.

Compromise of 1877

Event that brought an end to Reconstruction.

Homestead Act of 1862

Law that provided 160 acres of public land to settlers who paid a small fee and completed five years of residency.

Pacific Railway Act of 1862

Legislation encouraging the construction of a transcontinental railroad connecting the West to industries in the Northeast.

Laissez-Faire

The government should take a hands-off approach to business.

Black Codes

System of racial segregation established in the New South.

Andrew Johnson

17th President of the United States, opposed Radical Republicans, and the first U.S. president to be impeached.

Andrew Carnegie

Scottish-born American industrialist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company.

John Rockefeller

American industrialist who founded the Standard Oil Company, creating a monopoly on oil production.

Henry Grady

Editor of The Atlanta Constitution, advocated for a new South with industry.

Henry George

19th-century economist known for advocating a 'single tax' on land value to address economic inequality.

Haymarket Affair

A violent labor protest in 1886 that significantly damaged the reputation of organized labor.