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| provided help to war victims and the freed slaves during and after the war; main focus became education; also helped get blacks voting |
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| Lincoln's reconstruction plans; 10% state pledge loyalty to the Union, then back as a Union state, new state government |
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| Radical Republican who believed Lincoln's plan was too lenient with reconstruction (10% Plan) |
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| Congress's plan for reconstruction; majority of white males pledge loyalty to the Union before elections held; killed with pocket veto |
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| prevent bill from being passed in the last 10 days of legislative session by ignoring the law |
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| the pro-Confederacy man who assassinated President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 |
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| Lincoln's VP who took over the presidency when Lincoln was assassinated; then impeached, but not removed from office |
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| laws designed to keep freemen in a slavelike condition; for cheap labor |
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| goal was to prevent blacks from voting and return the South to pre-war social orders |
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| wanted tougher requirements to restore the Union and reshaping the South |
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| gave African Americans citizenship and protection of rights |
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| backed up the Civil Rights Act; granted citizenship to all born/naturalized in the US and prevented states from depriving a citizen of life, liberty, or right to property |
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| divided South into 5 military districts so the government can oversee the reconstruction |
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| process of charging the President or another federal official with a crime |
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| stated that people cannot be denied the right to vote because of race |
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| traitor in the eyes of the Confederacy; Southern version of carpetbaggers |
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| Republicans who came to take part in political and economical rebirth; wanted $ and to help |
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| African American who served as Senator in Jefferson Davis's seat |
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| workers received a share of the crops with employer |
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| renting of land to farm from a landowner |
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| passed in 1870 and 1871 to given severe punishment to anyone who prevents someone their right to vote (mainly aimed at the KKK) |
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| split in Republican party; they were tired of Reconstruction |
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| Democrats who took control back in Southern states; mostly previous Confederate leaders |
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| ran for presidency in 1876 and won, with the Compromise of 1877 |
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| Hayes becomes president; Republicans have to withdraw federal troops from the South from the Reconstruction Acts |
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| the nickname the South was referred to after reconstrution |
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| the period after the reconstruction when Democratic Party was so strong |
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