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Vocab

President who issued the Emancipation

Proclamation in 1863, freeing slaves.

Who is

Abe Lincoln?

President that held a lenient stance towards the South, he enjoyed vetoing Congressional

legislation.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

Former Union General who became

one of the weakest Presidents in US

History.

Who is

Ulysses S. Grant?

Pennsylvania Representative

who led the Radical

Republicans.

Who is

Thaddeus Stevens?

Republican that became President by agreeing to withdraw

federal troops from the South in 1877.

Who is

Rutherford B. Hayes?

Freedom of Speech, Press, Assembly, Religion, and the Right to Petition.

What is the

1st Amendment?

Guarantees citizenship and equal protection

under the law for African Americans.

What is the 14th Amendment?

Ended Slavery.

What is the

13th Amendment?

Gave African Americans the right

to vote.

What is the

15th Amendment?

Outlawed the Poll Tax.

What is the

24th Amendment?

The right to vote

What is suffrage?

To grant pardon and forgiveness to a

large group of people.

What is amnesty?

To charge a public official with crimes

What is impeach?

Taking money illegally for political

reasons

What is graft?

Presidential veto by not signing a bill

and letting a Congressional session expire

What is a

pocket veto?

Former slaves that were in need of

assistance following the Civil

War

Who were freedmen?

Rallying cry of freedmen, desiring

land and a fair start after years of

slavery

What was “40 acres and a mule”?

Organization that was set-up to aid

former slaves after the Civil War

What was the Freedman’s

Bureau?

Derogatory name given to Northerners that came to the South in search of economic opportunity, public office, or ensuring

equality

Who were carpetbaggers?

Derogatory name given to Southerners that

supported the cause of Reconstruction

Who are scalawags?

Thaddeus Stevens

What is Republican?

Members of the Ku Klux Klan.

What are Democrats?

Party that wanted to limit the rights of

African Americans and drive those blasted

carpetbaggers out of the South.

Who are Democrats?

Party that wanted to control the South

after the Civil War by ensuring equality

for African Americans.

Who were the Republicans?

John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Who are Republicans?

Divided the South into 5 districts that were controlled by

U.S. troops

What is the Military

Reconstruction Act?

Deal struck behind closed doors that gave Hayes the Presidency

and withdrew U.S. troops from the

South.

What was the Compromise of

1877?

Congressional law that Johnson

violated by firing Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton?

What was the Tenure of Office

Act?

Laws passed by Southern state

legislatures that severely limited the

rights of African Americans.

What were the Black Codes?

The “new slavery” that emerged after

Reconstruction, in which A.A. farmers had to pay rent to Southern whites by ceding a large portion of their harvest.

What is sharecropping?

Make your wager

Economic crisis that President Grant did

nothing to solve, leaving Americans

frustrated with Republican rule.

What was the Panic of 1873?