US History: Reconstruction
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- Ku Klux Klan
- White supremacy organization that intimidated blacks out of their newly found liberties
- Military Reconstruction
- Involved 5 military districts ruled by generals
- Andrew Johnson
- President who takes office after assassination of Lincoln
- Whiskey ring
- Treasury officials collaborate with distillers to get around excise tax
- 1876
- Election year: Hayes v. Tilden (Democrat). Has contested votes
- Johnson's Plan
- Reconstruction plan that was the 10% plan plus pardons for Confederate officers and repudiated debts. It is passed while Congress is out of session
- Scalawag
- Southerner in favor of reconstruction to garner political support
- Radical Republicans
- Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war
- W.W. Belknap
- Secretary of War who sells $24k worth of supplies to Indians and pockets the money
- Jim Crow laws
- Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
- Promontory Point
- Point in Utah where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed
- Salary grab
- Attempt by Senate to double their pay, is met by public outrage
- Carpetbagger
- Northerner who traveled south to make money off of the Reconstruction
- Wade-Davis Bill
- Radical republican bill that would have made it practically impossible for South to rejoin, was vetoed by Lincoln
- Compromise of 1877
- Compromise that enables Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction
- Tenure of Office Act
- Makes it illegal for president to replace officers who have been confirmed by Congress without Congressional approval
- John Wilkes Booth
- Assassin who kills Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
- 13th Amendment
- Amendment that abolishes slavery
- Bloody Shirt
- Term given to persistent reference to "Party who saved the Union"
- Civil Rights Bill of 1866
- Bill that turns into the 14th amendment
- Crop-lien system
- Name of system that utilized share-cropping
- 1868
- Election year: Grant v. Horatio Seymore (Democratic moderate against South). Grant wins due to Bloody Shirt
- Credit-Mobilier
- Rail-road company overcharges for rail-laying, bribes Washington to keep quiet
- William Seward
- Secretary of State of who purchases Alaska
- 14th Amendment
- Amendment that grants full civil rights to Blacks and threatens to reduce voting proportions if right to vote is abridged
- 15th amendment
- Amendment that guarantees right of suffrage to all men
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Welfare agency set up to help newly freed blacks with aid and education. Viciously attacked by the South
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Landmark court ruling that legalizes segregation
- 1872
- Election year: Grant wins handily, scandals have not surfaced yet
- Reconstruction Acts
- Acts that instated military reconstruction
- Jay Gould
- Investor who corners the gold market by convincing Grant to issue bad financial proclamations
- Black codes
- Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves
- Ulysses Grant
- President and former general whose presidency was racked by Scandal.
- Share-cropping
- New mthod for blacks to find work, involved farming land and then paying back a portion of profits Likened to slavery
- Congressional Reconstruction
- The "real" reconstruction plan, it involved the Radical Republican's plans which override Johnson's vetoes
- Panic of 1873
- Financial downturn caused by overspeculation of western lands
- Edwin Stanton
- Popular Secretary of War who is fired by Johnson and leads to Johnson's impeachment
- Lincoln's Plan
- Also known as 10% plan, it was the most lenient of all reconstruction plans, with the objective of getting the Southern states back in as quickly as possible