RECONSTRUCTION Terms and People
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dcdezin on November 23, 2011
Subjects:
America: Pathways to the Present
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 TERMS | ... |
| BLACK CODES | Laws that restricted freedmen's rights |
| CARPETBAGGERS | Negative nickname for a northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of the unsettled conditions there |
| DE FACTO SEGREGATION | Segregation caused by social conditions such as poverty |
| DE JURE SEGREGATION | Segregation created by law |
| FREEDMEN'S BUREAU | Organization that helped newly freed slaves find housing, jobs and schooling |
| IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON | Radical Republicans accused Andrew Johnson of violating the Tenure of Office Act |
| LYNCH | Murder of a person by a mob (lynch mob) |
| SCALAWAGS | Negative nickname meaning a white Southern Republican who sided with Northern interest |
| SEGREGATION | Forced separation oftentimes by race |
| SHARECROPPING | a system of farming in which a farmer works a portion of a plantation owner's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment |
| TENURE OF OFFICE ACT | Passed after Lincoln's assassination that required Andrew Johnson to seek approval from the Senate before removing a member of his Cabinet. |
| PEOPLE | ... |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | 16th president whose death gave rise to the power of the Radical Republicans |
| ANDREW JOHNSON | 17th president who was impeached (voted out of) by the Radical Republicans |
| JOHN WILKES BOOTH | Assassinated President Lincoln |
| RUTHERFORD B. HAYES | His election led to the end of reconstruction in the South |
| SAMUEL TILDEN | Won the popular vote but lost the election of 1878 |
| THADDEUS STEPHENS | Leader of the Radical Republicans |
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