| Term | Definition |
|---|
| "Carpet-baggers" | northeners who went south and used political connections to prey on the defeated Confederacy |
| The Reconstruction | Issue dominated his first term as president, main issue of 1868 Campaign |
| "scalawags" | carpet-bagger's southern accomplices |
| "robber barons" | Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, and Andrew Carneigie manipulated laws and lawmakers to increase their own wealth and power. |
| Gilded Age | Mark Twain called this period of matchless corruption, greed, and splendor. |
| Black Friday | the day of the gold crash, fall in gold prices triggered a financial panic |
| Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 | threaten southern states with federal military action unless they stopped terrorizing blacks and denying them the right to vote. |
| Force Act of 1870 | They tried to stop southeners from terrorizing blacks and denying them the right to vote. |
| Election of 1868 | Horatio Seymour vs Grant, white southerners couldn't vote for Seymour bc they lost their citizenship, former slaves however could vote thanks to the Radical Republicans, they voted for Grant |
| Susan B. Anthony | published a newspaper, campaigned for women's issues and more liberal divorce laws, she voted in the election of 1872 which was illegal and was arrested |
| The Panic of 1873 | Lasted for fives years, banking house of Jay Cooke and Company failed, the stock market collapsed along with it |
| Booker T. Washington | African American spokesman and one of the country's foremost educators |
| "melting pot" | the U.S. became a nation of many nationalities |
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