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16th president of the United States; President during the Civil War; Issued the Emancipation Proclamation; Killed by John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
17th president of the United States; Lincoln’s VP who took over after Lincoln’s assassination; Opposed the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction; First US President to be impeached, he is considered to be one of the USA’s weakest presidents.
Andrew Johnson
Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union; Southern resentment of this era lasted well into the twentieth century.
Reconstruction
A general or group pardon that is usually granted before conviction.
Amnesty
Lincoln’s plan for bringing Southern states back into the Union. His plan would restore states to the Union after at least ten percent of the population swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Ten Percent Plan
After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.
Radical Republicans
Proposed far more demanding and strict terms for Reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution; Lincoln vetoed this bill.
Wade-Davis Bill
Organization run by the army to care for and protect southern Blacks after the Civil War
Freedmen’s Bureau
laws passed by southern states after the Civil War denying ex-slaves the complete civil rights enjoyed by whites and which intended to force blacks back to plantations and impoverished lifestyles.
Black Codes
Constitutional amendment prohibiting all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude.
13th Amendment
Constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States “without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.”
Civil Rights Act of 1866
It divided the South into 5 military districts, each commanded by a union general and policed by Union soldiers. It also required that states wishing to be readmitted into the Union had to ratify the 14th Amendment, and that states’ constitutions had to allow former adult male slaves to vote.
The Reconstruction Act
the process that enables a legislative body to remove a public official from office; it is made up of two parts: 1.) an accusation of wrongdoing 2.) a trial
Impeachment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
15th Amendment
18th president of the USA; during presidency several scandals occurred in Congress; the Panic of 1873 happened during his presidency
Ulysses S. Grant
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
Carpetbaggers
A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners.
Scalawags
A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan
A system of agriculture where a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on land. After the Civil War, a widespread response to the economic destruction caused by the liberation of slaves
Sharecropping
a tax on goods that are deemed too luxurious or even harmful
Sin Tax
A group of whiskey distillers who sought to rob the federal government of tax money; bribed Internal Revenue Service officials and accomplices in Washington in order to keep liquor taxes for themselves; Scandal was exposed during Grant’s presidency.
The Whiskey Ring
An informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House by agreeing that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
Compromise of 1877
