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- 7. allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction
- 8. Elected president in 1868 after Johnson. He was elected because most of the Southern states had re-joined the Union and were forced to let African-Americans vote.
- 13. 17th President of the United States, A Southerner from Tennessee, He was Vice President with Lincoln. He became president when Lincoln was killed. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote.
- 15. Ended reconstruction because neither candidate had an electoral majority. Hayes was elected, and then ended reconstruction as he secretly promised.
- 17. A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the South after the Civil War. They wore white robes and hoods to hide their identities.
- 19. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War.
- 20. An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." This does not cause the president to have to leave office. They need to be convicted by the senate.
- 22. Became a senator in 1874 -- the only black to be elected to a full term until Edward Brooke in 1966.
- 24. State laws in the South that legalized segregation. Came into practice after 1877.
- 25. a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution
- 26. First African American elected to the United States Senate in 1870.
- 28. Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom.
- 29. Method used to deny African-Americans the vote in the South that tested a person's ability to read and write - they were done very unfairly so even though most African-Americans who could read and write, would fail.
- 30. States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race, color, or religion. But still only men would vote.
- 31. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences. Became legal in the South in 1877.
- 32. the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union. Literally means: rebuilding of the south after the Civil War.
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- 1. After the Civil War, this was a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. They also supported African Americans getting the right to vote and gaining other rights.
- 2. A Radical Republican who believed in harsh punishments for the South. Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress.
- 3. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
- 4. assassinated Lincoln on April 14, 1865
- 5. A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
- 6. this rival plan to Lincoln's set out these terms for reconstruction as:1)a Majority of white Southern men had to swear loyalty and 2)anyone who volunteered to fight for the Confederate army could not vote or serve in the government.
- 9. A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote. Limited the ability of poor African-Americans to afford to vote.
- 10. 19th president. Ended reconstruction. He was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history.
- 11. a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. Made the phrase "separate but equal' popular.
- 12. Majority of white men must swear oath of loyalty, new government must ban slavery and ratify 13th Amendment, Confederate officials may vote and hold office. It was a compromise between Lincoln's and the Wade-Davis Bill.
- 14. Passed in 1872, law which granted civil rights to ex-confederates and so set the stage for them to regain control of the south
- 16. Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction which allowed a southern state to re-enter the union if 10 percent of the people swear loyalty to the union and it abolished slavery. Also gave amnesty to Confederates except for high ranking officials. (i.e. leaders of the Confederacy).
- 18. They had two main goals: 1) break the power of wealthy plantation owners in the South. 2) get the right to vote for Freedmen.
- 21. A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners
- 23. diehard Confederates from the war. They wanted life in the south to change as little as possible from how it was before the war. They wanted to give African-Americans as little power as possible.
- 27. Abolished slavery except if someone has been convicted of a crime.