People in the era of reconstruction

Oliver O. Howard

Directed the Freedmen's Bureau

Conservative Republicans

believed that the south should accept the abolition of slavery so they could reenter the union.

Radical Republicans

A group of radicals let by Stevens and Sumner that urged many different issues. The Civil and military leaders of the confederacy be punished, a large number of white people should be stripped the right to vote, former slaves should be protected legally, and the property of wealthy white people be given to their former slaves.

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical Republican of Pennsylvania

Charles Sumner

Radical republican from Massachusetts

Abraham Lincoln

President of the united states that was among the moderate and conservative republicans. He believed in having a lenient reconstruction policy because it would encourage those in the south to join the party and decrease the possible number of democrats. He was assassinated by John WIlkes Booth in 1865.

John Wilkes Booth

Member of a distinguished family of actors and was an advocate for the southern cause. He entered Lincoln's presidential box from the rear and shot President Lincoln on the back of the head. He escaped on horseback to the Virginia countryside.

William Seward

Secretary of State while Lincoln was president. He was stabbed and wounded the night of Lincoln's assassination. Although controversial at the time, he accepted a russian offer to sell Alaska to the United States and engineered the american annexation of the midway islands.

Andrew Johnson

Vice President with Lincoln. There was a plan to murder him the same night Lincoln was assassinated. He was Lincoln's successor after he died and he was not well suited for the task. (Wrong person at the wrong time).

Alexander H. Stephens

Georgia's choice. He was a former confederate vice president and he became a senator although once part of the confederacy.

Edwin M. Staton

Secretary of War during Johnson's presidency. Tenure of Office Act was created to protect his job in office because he was cooperating with the radicals and they knew Johnson would get rid of him if he could.

Ulysses S. Grant

Commanding General of the Army that made the decision about issuing military order because of the Command of the Army Act. He was not allowed to be issued or relieved anywhere else than he was. He became president for the republican party in 1868 and led a clumsy and ineffectual performance from the start due to the people he was in office with.

Scalawags

A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War.

Carpetbaggers

northern whites who moved to the south and served as republican leaders during reconstruction

P.B.S. Pinchback

African American man that performed governor duties in Louisiana briefly

Horatio Seymour

Democratic nomination in 1868 that lost to Grant. He was of New York

Hamilton Fish

Appointed secretary of state during Grant's presidency and served a long time with great distinction unlike a lot of the other members that were involved in scandal.

Liberal Republicans/Liberals

Nominated Horace Greeley in the 1872 presidential election. They sided with the democrats and opposed "grantism"

Horace Greeley

Liberal candidate among with democratic approval in 1872. He published the New York Tribune.

Schuyler Colfax

Grant's vice president who accepted stock in the Credit Mobilier.

Benjamin H. Bristow

Grant's THIRD treasury secretary. He discovered that some of his officials were operating a "whiskey ring" that was cheating the government out of taxes by filing false reports.

William W. Belknap

Was part of a house investigation that revealed he accepted bribes to retain an indian-post trader in officer. He was the secretary of war.

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society created by white people that was led by Nathan Bedford Forrest. It used terrorism to frighten or physically bar african americans from voting or exercising their citizenship. They were extremely intimidating to African Americans. Members were often arrested or convicted under the law and sent to jail. They would dress in white sheets and asks with their horses as well and go around terrorizing small communities (midnight rides)

Redeemers/Bourbons

Name given to Southern Democrats after Reconstruction that brought white supremacy back to the South

Knights of the White Camellia

Secret society created by white people that is used to undermine the reconstruction regimes of african americans. They used terrorism to frighten or physically bar african americans for voting.

Red Shirts/White leagues

Unofficial military force that armed themselves to "police" elections and forced all white males to join the democratic party. Through this they excluded all african americans from having any meaningful participation in politics.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Led the Ku Klux Klan and created rituals, costumes, secret languages, and other airs of mystery to create a bond among the members.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Republican candidate and winner in 1876. He was of Ohio and was a former union army officer, governor, and congressman. He wanted to have a peaceful local-government and planned on withdrawing federal troops and let white democrats take over the states.

Samuel J. Tilden

Democratic candidate in 1876. he was a reform governor of New York. He was very important in challenging the corrupt Tweed Ring of New York City's Tammany Hall

Henry Grady

Edit of the Atlanta Constitution that challenged white supremacy. He did not advocate other important changes in souther values. Boasted to a new England audience that we have put business above politics.

Joel Chandler Harris

Fictional writer that created folktales, some being Uncle Remus that portrayed a slave and the harmonious world he had lives in. White southerners loved them.

James B. Duke

Of North Carolina, he established an important foothold in the tobacco processing region. He created the american tobacco company.