Unit 10 Reconstruction Flashcards
Reconstruction
Period of rebuilding that nation after Civil War
Radical Republicans
Congressional Republicans who wanted to punish the South for the war and give African American citizenship and the right to vote
Thaddeus Steven’s
One of the leaders of the radical republicans
Wade-Davis Bill
Bill passed by congress, and vetoed by President Lincoln, that would have gone congress control of the Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
President after Lincoln’s Assaination
Freeman’s Bureau
Government agency that helped former slaves and poor whites by giving out food and clothing and by setting up schools and hospitals
Black codes
Laws enacted in many southern states that discriminated against African Americans
Fourteenth Amendment
Gave citizenship to everyone who is born or naturalized in the United States
Impeach
To bring formal charges against a public official for wrongdoing in office
Fifteenth amendment
Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote
Carpetbagger
Northerner who moved South after the war
Scalawag
White southerner who joined the Republican Party
Henery Grady
Atlanta, Georgia, newspaper editor who coined term “New South”
Hiram Revels
First African American Senator
Sharecropping
System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of crops
Tenant Farming
Renting land from landowners for cash
KKK
Terrorist group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting
Panic of 1873
Financial crisis that started an economic depression
Redemption
Southern Democrats term for their return to power in the South in the 1870’s
Rutherford B Hayes
President who ended the Reconstruction in 1877
Samuel J. Tilden
Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
Compromise of 1877
The political deal that gave presidency to Hayes and ended Reconstruction
Home Rule
Ability to run state governments without the interference of the federal government
