Chapter 12 Vocab & People

4. The Democrats choice of candidate for President in the election of 1877.
5. The Democrats called their return to power in the south ______.
6. Democrats gave this nickname to Northerners that moved to the South after the war.
8. To formally charge the President with misconduct in office.
10. Gave a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act.
11. The Republicans choice of candidate for President in the election of 1877.
14. In this system they would rent the land for money and would be able to keep all the crops.
15. President who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, and he was also the only senator from a Confederate state that stayed loyal to the Union.
16. Founded as a social club for Confederate veterans in 1866.
19. One of the leaders of the Radical Republicans.
20. In this system landowners divided their land and gave each worker a few acres. They would pay back in a portion of their crops

1. One of the sixteen African Americans that were elected to Congress during Reconstruction.
2. Democrats gave this nickname to the white Southerners that joined the Republican Party.
3. Period during which the United States began to rebuild after the civil war.
6. Agreed to appoint a conservative Southerner to the cabinet.
7. States that no one can be kept from voting based upon race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
9. A minority of republicans that were angered by Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
12. _________ is the ability to run state governments without federal intervention.
13. Another word for discriminatory laws.
17. This bill proposed that Congress, not the President, be in charge of Reconstruction.
18. Cooke's banking firm, the nations largest dealer in government securities, went bankrupt leading to a series of financial failures known as the _________.