History Civil War Test
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Presidential/ Moderate reconstruction/lincolns 10% plan | 10% of voters in southern states pledged allegiance to US it would become part of union |
| Andrew Johnson | became president when Lincoln killed, opposed radical Republicans and vetoed all their reconstruction acts, was impeached |
| Black Codes | laws that restrict freedmen rights |
| Wade Davis Bill | bill passed by congress and vetoed |
| Freedmens Bureau | organization where whites help freedmen transition into new lives (find work, families, ect) |
| 14th amendment | gives citizenship to blacks |
| impeachment process | house of reps brings charges against, held in senate, chief justice of US is judge, 2/3 senate vote |
| Military Reconstruction | union in charge, occupied by fed groups |
| Ulysses S. Grant | president after Johnson, people worried he'd be militaristic because he has a lot of experiences there, little-no pol. experience |
| Carpetbaggers | northerners who moved to south after war to take advantage of reconstruction |
| Scalywags | support rad. reconstruction, union troops in south |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy |
| Civil Right Act of 1866 | law that gave African Americans same legal rights as white Americans |
| 15th amendment | gives right to vote |
| Compromise of 1877 | democrats agreed not to protest hayes presidency if Hayes agreed not to use US troops to enforce reconstruction legislation and he withdrew US troops from South and end reconstruction |
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