Abraham Lincoln

16th republican president, died soon after civil war ended

John Wilkes Booth

Lincoln’s assassin, soon died after the assasination

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th republican president, ended reconstruction

Samuel Tilden

democrat running against Hayes, loses by 1 electoral vote

Andrew Johnson

17th democrat president, Lincoln’s vice president, gets impeached

Freedmen

Newly freed slaves after 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed.

KKK

Ku Klux Klan, white supremacist group, inflicted violence and terror

U.S. Grant

Civil war general hero and 18th republican president

Thaddeus Stevens

Helped create amendments to end slavery

Democrats

Usually southerners, believed in states rights

Republicans

Usually northerners, believed in congress having power

Radical Republicans

Republicans who were slavery abolitionists or heavily supported taking down slavery and equal rights

Ida B. Wells

Black abolitionist

Hiram Revels

First Black Senate

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who went to and supported the south

Scalawags

Southerners who went to and supported the north

Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877

Republican Rutherford B Hayes vs Democrat Samuel J Tilden, Hayes won by 1 electoral point, Democrats  were mad, but let Hayes be president if he ended reconstruction.

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Readmitted southern states to the union, put soldiers in the south, and started rebuilding the south’s economical, physical, and political stature.

Impeachment

When a president is put on trial for doing something illegal, and senators are the jury

Veto

An action a politician uses to stop a law from being passes

13^th Amendment

Ban slavery

14^th Amendment

All citizens are equal

15^th Amendment

Black people are allowed to vote

Tenure of Office Act

The president can not remove cabinet members without approval of the congress.

Amnesty

A government given pardon to a select group of people

Black Codes

“Slavery without the chains”

Unfair rules that eventually made black people just do slave work again

Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan - 10% Plan

If 10% of the former confederates swear allegiance to the Union, their state will be readmitted.

Wade-Davis Bill

At Least 50% of the former confederates had to swear an oath for their stagte to be readmitted to the union.

Lynching

Public execution where they didnt have a fair trial(or no trial at all)

Segregation

White people and Black people had seperate bathrooms, schools, and everything was split.

The Lost Cause

An idea that the confederates were fighting for a valiant cause and their family died for nothing.

Georgia

Last state to be readmitted, porbably one of the most expensive because of sherman’s march to the sea.

Sharecropping System

Black people get to use land but have to pay white people with their crops.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Ended black codes

Freedmen’s Bureau

Group of people who helped freedmen find family, land, and jobs

Presidential Reconstruction (Andrew Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction)

Readmit the states easily by swearing an oath and ratifying the 13th am