16.1 Flashcards
What are black codes?
Laws some southern states designed to maintain white supremacy by keeping freed people impoverished and in debt
What is a carpetbagger?
A term used for northerners working in the South during Reconstruction; these were opportunists who came south for economic or political gain.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
The agreement between Republicans and Democrats after the election of 1876; where Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for withdrawing the las of the federal troops from the South
What is the crop-lien system?
A loan system in which store owners extended credit to farmers for the purchase of goods in exchange for a portion of their future crops
What are other names for the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Created in 1865 to ease black’s transition from slavery to freedom
What is the Ironclad Oath?
An oath that the Wade-Davis Bill required a majority of voters and government officials in Confederate states to take; it involved swearing that they had never supported the Confederacy
Who was the Ku Klux Klan?
A white vigilante organization that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of stopping Reconstruction.
What are the Radical Republicans?
Northern Republicans who contested Lincoln’s treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments
What was Reconstruction?
the 12 year period of the Civil War in which the rebel Southern states were integrated back into the Union
What were the Redeemers?
A term used for southern whites committed to rolling back the gains of Reconstruction
What are scalawags?
A pejorative term used for southern whites who supported Reconstruction
What is sharecropping?
A crop-lien system in which people get paid rent on land they farmed (but did not own) with the crops they grew
What was the ten percent plan?
Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, which required only 10 percent of the 1860 voters in Confederate states to take an oath of allegiance to the Union
What are Union Leagues?
Fraternal groups loyal to the Union and the Republican Party that became political and civic centers for black in former Confederate states
