reconstruction

The southern plan for a new industrial economy was known as the

“New South”

The collapse of Reconstruction ended African American hopes of

being granted their own land in the south

Under Johnson if southern states wanted to rejoin the Union they had to revoke of ordinance of secession and ratify

the thirteenth amendment

White Southerners working with Republicans were known as

scalawags

Pardoned thousands of Southerns

andrew johnson

Lost the presidential election in the Compromise of 1877

Samuel Tilden

Grant's secretary of war who accepted bribes

William Belknap

Johnson's secretary of war

Edwin Stanton

President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by

Firing Secretary of War Stanton

amendment which stated that everyone born or naturalized in the US was a citizen

14th amendment

amendment which banned slavery in the US

13th amendment

amendment which gave all men the right to vote no matter what their skin color was

15th amendment

Whose presidency was known for corruption?

Grant’s

Someone who grows a crop on land owned by someone else and gives the landowner part of their annual harvest.

sharecroppers

Someone who rents land and then grows crops on the land

tenant farmers

President who favored a lenient 10% plan of Reconstruction.

Lincoln

The 14th Amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for

the civil rights act of 1866

Johnson freely gave

pardons to southern officals

As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to

Reverse Reconstruction Era reforms

Hiram Revels was the first African American

US Senator

Robert Smalls was a Congressmen from which state?

South Carolina

What laws were Jim Crow laws similar to?

black codes

Who was the first Reconstruction President?

lincoln was the first

the act of granting a pardon to a large group of people

amnesty

the president’s indirect veto of a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill

pocket veto

to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office

impeach

name given to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans

Carpetbaggers

name given to Southerners who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction of the South

scalawags

the acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician

graft

what group inflicted violence and terror onto people of color in the south in order to influence elections?

the KKK

wanted to reunite the nation as quickly as possible

Lincoln’s reconstruction plans

was sympathetic to the south, pledged to return all property that was taken from southern land owners, offered pardon to all members of the Confederacy who took an oath of loyalty to the US

Johnson’s reconstruction plans

allowed african americans to own property and be treated equally in court

civil rights act of 1866

divided the former confederacy (except tennessee) into 5 military districts

The Military Reconstruction Act

the process by which the states that has seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the civil war (1865-1877)

US History Definition of Reconstruction

tasked with feeding and clothing refugees in the south, helped former slaves find work on plantations, negotiated labor contracts, established courts to deal with grievances between workers and planters, worked closely with Northern charities to educate former slaves

The Freedmen’s Bureau

committed to the emancipation of the slaves and later to the equal treatment and enfranchisement of the freed blacks, did not like Johnson and felt he was too soft on the south

radical republicans

the agreement that the congressional committee would give Hayes the electoral votes he needed to become president as long as Hayes withdrew all federal troops in the south

the compromise of 1877