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Objective 3.04
Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify why Reconstruction
came to an end.
Freedman’s Bureau
Offered assistance to the freed slaves, housing, education, food, clothing, registration to vote
Radical Republicans
Political Party in control during the period after the Civil War, they wanted to punish the South for their participation in the war, They were led by Thaddeus Stevens
Reconstruction Plans
Presidential and Congressional plans to rebuild the South after the Civil War
Thaddeus Stevens
Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress after the Civil War
Andrew Johnson
Vice President under President Lincoln, became the 17th President of the US after Lincoln was Assassinated, became the first President to be impeached
Tenure of Office Act
Law enacted to keep President Johnson from replacing Radical Republicans in his cabinet, Johnson is impeached for violating this Act, ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
Johnson’s Impeachment
President Johnson violates the Tenure of Office Act, Congress fails to remove Johnson from office by one vote
Election of 1876/Compromise of
1877
Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President as a stipulation for ending military occupation of the South, ends reconstruction
Scalawags
Southerners that supported Northern Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Northerners that moved South during Reconstruction, supported the freed slaves, wanted to profit from the South
Black Codes
Similar the slave codes, laws that restricted the movements of African Americans in the South after the Civil War
Ku Klux Klan
Violent Organization formed after the Civil War by Southern War veterans to protect themselves from the Reconstruction Governments, Anti- Black, Anti-Catholic, Anti-immigrant, Anti-Carpet bagger, Anti-Scalawag, Anti- Jewish, Anti- Republican
Tenant Farmers
Farmers that work someone else’s land and pay rent based upon profits from the sale of the crop, one of the ways that freed slaves and poor whites made a living after the Civil War
Sharecroppers
Farmers that work someone else’s land in exchange for a portion of the crops, one of the ways that freed slaves made a living after the Civil War
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that segregated the races, separate water fountains, separate bathrooms, separate schools
Whiskey Ring
1875 scandal where several Republican lawmakers took bribes from liquor taxes, this scandal and other scandals eventually led to the end of Reconstruction Governments
Solid South
Southern politics are dominated by Democrats from 1865 until the 1960’s