Terms and Names:
Reconstruction... Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War.
Radical Republican... Wanted to destroy the political power of slave holders and give African Americans
citizenship and the right to vote.
Thaddeus Stevens... Leader of the Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis Bill... Bill passed by Congress, but vetoed by President Lincoln, bill would've given Congress
control over Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson... becomes President after Lincoln's assignation.
Freedman's Bureau... Gov't agency that helped former slaves & poor whites by giving food, clothes, & setting
up schools and hospitals.
Black Codes... Laws enacted in Southern states that discriminated against African Americans.
14th Amendment... Gives African Americans citizenship and Equal Protection of the Law.
15th Amendment... Forbids states from denying African Americans the right to vote.
Impeach... Formal charge of wrong doing against the President or other gov't officials.
Scalawag... Southern white who joined the Republican party.
Carpetbagger... Northerner who moved south after the war.
Hiram Revels... First African American United States Senator
Sharecropping... System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in exchange for a portion
of their crops.
Tenant Farming... Renting land from landowners for cash.
Ku Klux Klan... Organization of white Southerners who used violence against African Americans
Panic of 1873... Financial crisis that started an economic depression.
Redemption... Term used for when Southern Democrats returned to power in the 1870's
Rutherford B. Hayes... Elected President in 1877 and responsible for ending Reconstruction.
Samuel J. Tilden... Democratic Presidential candidate in 1876
Compromise of 1877... Political deal that allows Hayes to become President in exchange for ending Reconstruction
Home Rule... Ability to run state governments without the interference of the federal government.
Reconstruction... Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War.
Radical Republican... Wanted to destroy the political power of slave holders and give African Americans
citizenship and the right to vote.
Thaddeus Stevens... Leader of the Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis Bill... Bill passed by Congress, but vetoed by President Lincoln, bill would've given Congress
control over Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson... becomes President after Lincoln's assignation.
Freedman's Bureau... Gov't agency that helped former slaves & poor whites by giving food, clothes, & setting
up schools and hospitals.
Black Codes... Laws enacted in Southern states that discriminated against African Americans.
14th Amendment... Gives African Americans citizenship and Equal Protection of the Law.
15th Amendment... Forbids states from denying African Americans the right to vote.
Impeach... Formal charge of wrong doing against the President or other gov't officials.
Scalawag... Southern white who joined the Republican party.
Carpetbagger... Northerner who moved south after the war.
Hiram Revels... First African American United States Senator
Sharecropping... System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in exchange for a portion
of their crops.
Tenant Farming... Renting land from landowners for cash.
Ku Klux Klan... Organization of white Southerners who used violence against African Americans
Panic of 1873... Financial crisis that started an economic depression.
Redemption... Term used for when Southern Democrats returned to power in the 1870's
Rutherford B. Hayes... Elected President in 1877 and responsible for ending Reconstruction.
Samuel J. Tilden... Democratic Presidential candidate in 1876
Compromise of 1877... Political deal that allows Hayes to become President in exchange for ending Reconstruction
Home Rule... Ability to run state governments without the interference of the federal government.