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- 3. Amendment which protected voting rights for all men regardless of race
- 7. The ____ Reconstruction Act was passed by Congress and more or less imposed military occupation on the South
- 11. Term meaning the denial of the right to vote
- 13. Amendment which granted blacks full citizenship in the United States and in the states in which they lived
- 16. The most notorious political corruption in this period, occurred in the city government of New York under the direction of William "Boss" Tweed (2 words, no spaces)
- 18. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the South became known as the ____ ____ for the Democratic party (2 words/no space)
- 21. The period from 1865 to 1877, which refers to the national government's attempt to rebuild the south after the Civil War
- 22. Republican cartoonist who exposed Tweed through his newspaper drawings
- 26. Term meaning indictment by the House of Representatives
- 28. The most important of the extremist groups who turned to violence and terrorized parts of the South (3 words/no spaces)
- 31. Less flattering term used for some industrialists due to their greed for gain and aggressive business practices (2 words/no spaces)
- 34. Term used for the industrialists and their efforts to help forge America into a prosperous and productive nation (3 words/no spaces)
- 36. NY newspaper editor who ran against Grant for president in 1872
- 38. Democratic candidate for president in 1876, who had gained a national reputation by breaking the "Tweed Ring"
- 39. A financial collapse called the ___ of '73 touched off a 6 year depression, the worst in the US up to that time
- 41. Scandal in which a railroad company padded construction expenses and then paid the excesses to stockholders (2 words/no space)
- 42. A Scottish immigrant to Pennsylvania who became a steel giant
- 44. Individual who was elected as president in 1868 with the campaign slogan "Let us have peace"
- 45. America's first billionaire and founder of Standard Oil Company
- 46. Known as the "Commodore", he was a railroad baron
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- 1. Organization founded in 1865 to provide help to the newly freed slaves (2 words/no space)
- 2. The ____ of 1877 was a trade off that allowed Hayes to become president in exchange for the removal of the last federal troops from the South
- 4. Individual who formulated the "ten per cent" plan for restoring the South
- 5. Splinter group of the Republican party who opposed Grant's reelection in 1872 (2 words/no spaces)
- 6. Term meaning the right to vote
- 8. Author who unwittingly but fittingly name the postwar era The Gilded Age
- 9. Amendment which eliminated the last traces of slavery
- 10. Term used by those who wanted to build the South up so that it could match the North in economic and industrial capacity (2 words/no spaces)
- 12. Individual from Durham, NC who created a national and an international market for his tobacco products
- 14. Group who opposed Lincoln in Congress. They were only a minority, but were highly influential (2 words/no space)
- 15. Republican candidate for president in 1876 who ultimately ended up being chosen as president
- 17. Eliminating all competitors to a consolidation of all of one entire segment of an industry (2 words/no spaces)
- 19. Controlling every aspect of production from the ground up (2 words/no spaces)
- 20. Term meaning Southern Radicals who had been pro-Union since before the Civil War
- 23. Paper money issued by Congress at the outset of the Civil War to help pay for the war effort
- 24. Became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and had the task of "binding up the nation's wounds"
- 25. Scandal in which the government was cheated out of millions of dollars in revenue from excise taxes (2 words/no space)
- 27. Developed as an answer to the economic deprivations of the South, which allowed many Southerners to survive, but did not enable them to prosper
- 29. Individual who was the leading investment banker in America and creator of the first billion-dollar supercorporation, United States Steel Corporation
- 30. Individual who was fired by Johnson, which broke the Tenure of Office Act leading to Johnson's impeachment
- 32. Men who led the fight for white majority rule in the South
- 33. Term which became a synonym for political corruption
- 35. Waving the Bloody Shirt was a political tactic used by Republicans to blame the ____ for the Civil War
- 37. Term meaning Northern Radicals who moved to the South
- 40. A legal device by which a board was empowered to make decisions and control the operations of a whole group of companies
- 43. Attempts to regulate the conduct of the former slaves, often in an unfair manner (2 words/no space)