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Chapter 15 Flashcards

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Republican minority that wanted to deal harshly with the South

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Radical Republican

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One of the most scandal ridden administrations in American history

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Northern Radical who moved to the South

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Carpetbagger

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First president to be impeached; this president generally supported Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction

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Andrew Johnson

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Southern Radical

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Scalawag

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Political cartoonist who advanced reforms

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Thomas Nast

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Denial of someone’s right to vote

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Disenfranchisement

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Corrupt leader who defrauded New York

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William Tweed

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Indictment of a political official by Congress

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Impeachment

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Method for freed slaves to farm land without cash

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Sharecropping

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Southerner who wanted to oust Republican rule and restore white majority rule

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Redeemer

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Political corruption

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Grantism

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Paper money not backed by gold or silver

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Greenbacks

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Eccentric New York newspaper editor who ran against in 1872

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Horace Greeley

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Type of Republican who opposed the Radicals in 1872

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Liberal Republican

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Lincoln’s attempt to reestablish civilian government in the South quickly

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Ten percent plan

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Abolished slavery

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Lawyer who helped to reform corruption in New York

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Samuel J Tilden

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Required that a majority of voters in each Southern state an oath of allegiance

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Wade-Davis Bill

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Guaranteed citizenship rights

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Winner in the most disputed presidential election in American history to that time

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Rutherford B Hayes

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Near unanimous support of the Democratic Party in the former Confederate states following Reconstruction

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Solid South

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First black to serve in congress

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Hiram Revels

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Divided the South into five military districts

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Military Reconstruction Act

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Attempted to regulate the conduct of former slaves

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Black codes

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Guaranteed the right of a citizen to vote regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude “

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Fifteenth Amendment

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Refers to the national governments attempt to rebuild the South according to Radical Republican ideas

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Reconstruction

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Extremists group opposed to Radical Reconstruction and sought to prevent blacks from voting during Reconstruction

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Ku Klux Klan

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Act of Congress was designed to protect cabinet members from being fired by the president

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Tenure of the Act

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Political agreement whereby federal troops would be removed from the South

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Compromise of 1877

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The most severe depression in the first one hundred years of America’s history

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Panic of 73’

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Scandal that involved a groups criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

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Credit mobiler

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Government agency designed to help former slaves following the war

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Freeman’s Bureau

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For what alleged reason was Andrew Johnson impeached?

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He dismissed a Radical secretary of war

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Why did sharecropping become common in the South during Reconstruction

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The South lacked sufficient money to pay wages

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In what scandal did Fisk and Gould participate

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Manipulating the price of gold

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What did the Republicans offer Southern Democrats in return for their support in electing Rutherford B Hayes

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Removal of federal troops from the south

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Why was Tammany hall allowed to continue its corruption

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Democratic leaders needed it’s help in obtaining votes

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The radicals _____ with Lincoln concerning the percentage of Southern white males who should take N oath of allegiance before a state was readmitted to the union

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Disagreed

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Describe the effects that the Military Reconstruction Act had on the South

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The act divided the ten former states of the Confederacy into five military districts

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List at least two positive accomplishments of the Radical government in the South.

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Enactment of universal manhood suffrage, organization of public school systems

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