American Pageant Ch 22
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41 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Oliver O. Howard | Union general who headed the Freedmen's Bureau |
| Andrew Johnson | successor of Abraham Lincoln |
| Hiram Revels | one of the first black senators; took Davis' place in the Senate |
| Alexander Stephens | vice-president of the Confederacy |
| Charles Sumner | leader of the radical Republicans in the Senate |
| Edwin M. Stanton | friend of the radicals in the Cabinet, one of the reasons Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act |
| Blanche K. Bruce | black man who served as a congressman |
| Thaddeus Stevens | leader of the radical Republicans in the House of Representatives |
| William Seward | ardent expansionist who signed a deal with Russia that gave Alaska to the United States |
| redemption | revenge |
| Army Act | ? |
| Freedmen's Bureau | primitive welfare system designed to aid freed blacks |
| 10 percent plan | act that allowed Southern states to be reallowed into the Union if 10% of their voters swore loyalty to the Union and abolished slavery, then formally erected a state government |
| Wade-Davis Bill | act that allowed Southern states to be reallowed into the Union if 50% of their voters swore loyalty to the Union and followed strict guidelines to follow through with emancipation |
| conquered provinces | Republican attitude toward states that had been in rebellion and were regained after the war |
| moderate Republican | Republicans who were relatively lenient toward the South |
| radical Republican | Republicans who were very strict toward t he South |
| Black Codes | laws passed that were designed to regulate the affairs of emancipated blacks |
| sharecropping | system where workers would give a share of their crops to their masters, effectively placing many blacks back under bondage |
| 13th Amendment | amendment that legally ended slavery |
| Civil Rights Act | outlawed segregation in public facilities and gave the government power to stop discrimination |
| Fourteenth Amendment | gave citizenship to all who were born in the country |
| swing around the circle | term for Andrew Johnson's inept speechmaking that accused radicals of treating blacks badly |
| Military Reconstruction Act | declared martial law in the Souther states |
| Fifteenth Amendment | amendment that stated the rights of a citizen cannot be held from him or her |
| Ex parte Milligan | Supreme Court case that ruled that military courts could not try civilians |
| radical regimes | Southern states reorganized their governments until the Republicans set in fully |
| scalawags | derogatory name for the friends of freedmen given by slaveholders (s) |
| carpetbaggers | derogatory name for the friends of freedmen given by slaveholders (c) |
| Ku Klux Klan | group that relied on intimidation to undermine attempts to politically empower blacks |
| Force Acts | banned the use of terror or force to prevent someone from voting |
| Tenure of Office Act | act that stated that the President needed the consent of the Senate before he could remove Cabinet members from their seats |
| Seward's Folly | derogatory name for the purchase of Alaska |
| Black Reconstruction | Blacks could vote and had rights, but black codes kept them virtually enslaved. They did get more political power, however. |
| repudiate | refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid |
| Jeff Davis' Necktie | name for the noose |
| emancipation | freeing someone from the control of another |
| high crimes and misdemeanors | crimes against democracy; grounds for impeachment |
| dogmatic | stubbornly opinionated |
| Massachusetts | Sumner's home state |
| Pennsylvania | Stevens' home state |
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