Reconstruction and Its Effects - Chapter 12 Flashcards
To understand the political struggle, accomplishments, and failures of Reconstruction in the years following the Civil War.
Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War
Reconstruction
One of the Congressional Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of slaveholders and to give African Americans citizenship and the right to vote
Radical Republican
One of the leader of the Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Bill passed by Congress, and vetoed by President Lincoln, that would have given Congress control of Reconstruction
Wade-Davis Bill
President after Lincoln’s assassination
Andrew Johnson
Government agency that helped former slaves and poor whites by giving out food and clothing and by setting up schools and hospitals
Freedmen’s Bureau
Laws enacted in many Southern states that discriminated against African Americans
Black Codes
Gave African American citizenship
Fourteen Amendment
Legal process to formally charge the president with misconduct in office
Impeach
Banned states from denying African American the right to vote
Fifteen Amendment
White Southerner who joined the Republican Party
Scalawag
Northerner who moved to the South after the war
Carpetbagger
First African-American senator
Hiram Revels
System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops
Sharecropping
Renting land from landowners for cash
Tenant farming
