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| Man that assassinated Abraham Lincoln |
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| prominent american civil rights leader that led the womens rights movement and started women's suffrage |
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| Leader of radical republican party that later was a prominent member of the House of Representatives during Reconstruction |
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| Founder of Liberal Republican party and stated the New York Tribune- a very influential newspaper. |
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| Conservative, pro-business democrats during Reconstruction Era |
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| Southern rebels that commited acts of revenge after the civil war |
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| Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
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| Lincoln's plan for reconstruction. Offered help to most southerners (excluding high ranked confederate military officials) |
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| program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans |
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| the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right |
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| U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed refugees and freedmen during Reconstruction |
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| Laws passed that limited the rights of blacks in America |
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| federal law in the United States declaring that everyone born in the U.S. and not subject to any foreign power is a citizen, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude |
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| Men that supported civil rights for freedmen during reconstruction and were strongly against democrats of the south |
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| emphasizes patriotism, independence and self-sufficiency, free enterprise, and strong cultural conservatism within the context of the Black church. |
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| officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime |
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| allowed blacks to be citizens of the United States |
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| prohibition of denying a citizen the right to vote on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
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| Military Reconstruction Act |
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| Creation of five military districts in the seceded states that ratified the 14th amendment |
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| Presidential impeachment trial |
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| trial on charges of a civil officer along with the conviction of that officer for his charges |
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| denied the President of the United States the power to remove anyone who had been appointed by a past President without the advice and consent of the United States Senate |
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| negative term Southerners gave to Northerners who moved south during Reconstruction |
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| nickname for southern whites who supported Reconstruction following the Civil War |
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| AKA: Klu Klux Klan. group of White extremists that used violence to express their feelings of white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration |
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| System (during Reconstruction) in which families worked a farm or section of land in return for a share of the crop rather than wages. Replaced plantation agriculture in south after civil war |
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| The crop-lien system was a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests |
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| practice of politicians referencing the blood of martyrs or heroes to criticize opponents |
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| Political party that is neither fully republican nor fully democratic. More moderate beliefs |
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| Civil service reform/Pendleton Act |
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| Allowed the president to decide which federal jobs would be filled according to rules laid by a bipartisan Civil Service Commission. |
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| part of Civil Rights Act of 1871 that helped protect southern blakcs from the KKK |
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| The Act guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in public accommodations |
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| The supreme court saw the 14th amendment as protecting the "privileges or immunities" conferred by virtue of the federal United States citizenship to all individuals of all states within it, but not those privileges or immunities incident to citizenship of a state. |
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| unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election and ended Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction. |
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