History Ch. 16
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JoeyNilhas16 on December 22, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Black Codes | Laws by states and towns denying the rights of citizenship to free blacks after the civil war |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who were in the south, mostly Union soldiers whom stayed in the south after the war |
| Compromise of 1877 | The Congressional settling of the 1876 election which made Repub. Hayes president, and in return gave Dem. control of Southern governments |
| Congressional Reconstruction | Name given to the period of 1867 - 1870, where the Repub. - dominated Congress controlled Reconstruction era policy |
| Field Order No. 15 | Order by General Sherman in Jan. 1865 to give abandoned land on the Atlantic Southern Coast to Freedmen. Appealed later that year by Johnson |
| Fourteenth Amendment | Passe in 1866, guaranteed citizens civil rights before the law, outlawing black codes |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Passed in 1869, gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Agency est. in 1865 to provide social, educational, and economic services, advice, and protection to former slaves and destitute whites. Lasted 7 years |
| Ku Klux Klan | A group that took the laws into their own hands, terrorizing blacks; formed by Confederate veterans in 1866 |
| Scalawags | southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction |
| Sharecropping | system in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th President after Lincoln's death; favored Lincoln's plan about being lenient to the South; later impeached |
| Wade Davis Bill | The Repub. ideal for reuniting the Union; required a majority of a states pre-war voters to pledge loyalty to the union and demanded black rights before the law; passed, but Lincoln pocket vetoed it |
| Election of 1872 | Dem. Horace Greecy vs. Repub. Grant; Grant won and his presidency led to the fall of Radical Repubs. because of scandals |
| Military Reconstruction | Around 1867; Split South into 5 military districts; achieved 3 main Rad Repub goals - Freedmens right to vote, Repub control of Southern gov, and for South to accept the loss of the Civil War |
| Civil Rights Act of 1875 | Prohibited discrimination in public places; overturned by Supreme Court in 1883 |
| Impeachment of Johnson | Johnson removed Secratary of War Stanton w/o first getting Congress' permisssion, which went against the Tenure of Office Act |
| Election of 1876 | Dem Tilden vs. Repub Hayes; was a tie which led to the Compromise of 1877; This election ended Reconstruction |
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