MOD 10 Pretest - US HIS: Reconstruction

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, figures, events, and legislation from the Reconstruction era as presented in the MOD 10 US History pretest crossword.

Thaddeus Stevens

Leader of the Radical Republicans

Hiram Revels

First African American elected to the Senate (or either House of Congress)

Freedmen's Bureau

Organization that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who moved to the South after the war

Andrew Johnson

17th President of the United States who was impeached

Reconstruction

Rebuilding after the Civil War

Fourteenth Amendment

Amendment which provided basis for Civil Rights Act—"all persons born or naturalized in the US citizens"

Wade-Davis Bill

Bill created by the Radical Republicans in response to Lincoln's 10% plan—Lincoln pocket vetoed

Radical Republicans

Republicans who thought Lincoln's reconstuction plan was too moderate

Ku Klux Klan

Terrorist organization that was established in Tennessee whose goal was to restore white supremacy

Samuel J. Tilden

Democratic candidate for the 1876 Presidential election who won the popular vote, but did not become president

Compromise of 1877

Supposed deal that got Hayes elected President in exchange for for several Southem demands

Impeach

Formally charge with misconduct in office

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th President of the United States who ended reconstruction

Fifteenth Amendment

Amendment that states no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"

Home rule

Ability to run state governments without federal intervention

Henry Grady

Newspaper editor who coined the phrase "New South"

Panic of 1873

Financial failures because investors borrowed increasing amounts of money

Sharecropping

System in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise

Redemption

Term for when Democrats recaptured the state govemements of many Southem states—seen as their return to power

Tenant farming

System in which farm workers supply their own tools and rend farmland for cash

Black codes

Codes that severely restricted African American's lives

Scalawags

White Southemers who joined the Republican party