PERIOD 5 Chapter 15

Abraham Lincoln

Proposed lenient Reconstruction to quickly restore the Union

Andrew Johnson

President who opposed federal protection for African American rights

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical Republican leader supporting racial equality and harsh Reconstruction

Charles Sumner

Radical Republican senator advocating full civil and political equality

Ulysses S Grant

President who enforced Reconstruction laws

Hiram Revels

First African American United States senator

Blanche K Bruce

African American United States senator during Reconstruction

Freedmen

Formerly enslaved people seeking rights land and independence

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction

Scalawags

White Southerners who supported Reconstruction

Reconstruction

Process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

Presidential Reconstruction

Johnson plan for rapid Southern readmission

Congressional Reconstruction

Radical Republican plan using military control

Military Reconstruction Acts

Laws dividing the South into military districts

Impeachment

Formal charge against Andrew Johnson

Amnesty

Pardon restoring political rights to former Confederates

Enforcement Acts

Laws protecting African American voting rights

Sharecropping

Labor system exchanging work for crop share

Black Codes

Laws restricting African American freedom

Freedmens Bureau

Federal agency aiding former slaves

Ten Percent Plan

Lincoln plan requiring ten percent loyalty oath

Wade Davis Bill

Congressional plan requiring majority loyalty

Radical Republicans

Republicans supporting equality and federal authority

Crop Lien System

Credit system trapping farmers in debt

Tenant Farming

Farming rented land

Redeemers

Southern Democrats regaining political control

Lost Cause

Ideology glorifying the Confederacy

Thirteenth Amendment

Amendment abolishing slavery

Fourteenth Amendment

Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection

Fifteenth Amendment

Amendment protecting voting rights

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Law granting citizenship rights

Reconstruction Acts of 1867

Laws enforcing Radical Reconstruction

Ku Klux Klan

White supremacist group opposing Reconstruction

Force Acts

Laws allowing federal intervention

Election of 1876

Disputed election weakening Reconstruction

Compromise of 1877

Agreement ending Reconstruction

New South

Vision of Southern industrial growth

Solid South

Region supporting Democrats after Reconstruction

Panic of 1873

Economic depression weakening Reconstruction support

Home Rule

Return of Southern self government