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22 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Johnson
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succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president and entered politics in Tennessee. He won several important offices, including those of congressman, governor, and U.S. senator.
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Reconstruction
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was a period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War. This term also refers to the process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states.
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Radical Republicans
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wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders. They also wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote.
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Thaddeaus Stevens
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was a Representative who helped lead the Radical Republicans.
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Wade-Davis
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proposed that Congress, not the president, be responsible for Reconstruction. It also declared that for a state government to be formed, a majority – not just ten percent – of those eligible to vote in 1860 would have to take a solemn oath to support the Constitution.
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Freedmen's Bureau
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established by Congress and assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing and food. It set up more than 40 hospitals, about 4,000 schools, 61 industrial institutes, and 74 teacher-training centers.
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Black Codes
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severely restricted African Americans’ lives.
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Fourteenth Amendment
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provided a constitutional base for the Civil Rights Act. It makes all persons born or naturalized in the United States – citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws.
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Impeach
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formally charge him with misconduct in office.
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Fifteenth Amendment
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states that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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Scalawag
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a white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
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Hiram Revels
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the first African-American senator.
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Sharecropping
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– landowners divided their land and gave each worker – either freed African American or poor white – a few acres, along with seed and tools.
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Tenant farming
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a system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash.
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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.
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Panic of 1873
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a series of financial failures that triggered a five-year depression in the United States.
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Redemption
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as the Democrats called their return to power in the South and the national election of 1876, congressional Reconstruction came to an end.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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the governor of Ohio.
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Samuel J. Tilden
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The Democrats’ ablest leaders, Governor of New York.
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Compromise of 1877
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a series of congressional measures under which the Democrats agreed to accept the Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes as president, even though he had lost the popular vote. The measures included the withdrawal of federal troops from Southern states, federal money for improving Southern infrastructure, and the appointment of a conservative Southern cabinet member.
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Home rule
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the ability to run state governments without federal intervention.
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