APUSH - Chapter 15 Review

Formed exclusively to work on women's right to vote.

Violent, racist organization formed by Nathan Bedford Forrest

Define administrative discretion

The merit principle can be defined as

Belief that less government involvement is society the better the society does.

Laws designed to protect freedmen's rights and suppress terrorist activities.

The Hatch act states that

Cruel labor system used by southerners where men lived in cages, worked mines and on railroads.

Federal bureaucrats are located_____

A hiring and promotion system based on political factors rather than merit or competence

Sup. Ct. ruled citizenship was set at the state level (not federal) denying suffrage to women.

Southern Democrats used this term to describe people who would bring pride back to the South.

Helped Confederate states reenter the Union and supervised state constitutional conventions.

What act made a system in which hiring and promotions would be based on merit alone

Granted full and equal access to jury service, transportation, and public accomodations.

A government agency responsible for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest

Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War that denied ex-slaves the civil rights.

Required an oath of allegiance by a majority of each southern state's white men.

Ratified in 1869 and guaranteed the right to vote for all men regardless of race.

A law that gave former slaves equal protection under the law and was vetoed by Pres. Johnson.

Combined Supreme Court cases that undercut the power of the 14th Amendment.

Financial get rich quick scheme that involved members of Grant's administration.

Politician who fought alongside Lincoln to end slavery. He was almost caned to death.

The most crucial and bloodiest battle of the war.

Ex-Confederates who supported Republican reconstruction efforts. All southern whites.

Amend. passed in 1868 to provide = protection under the law, with civil rights for ex-slaves.

While “Bureaucrat” typically has a bad connotation, Americans are generally___

At the First Battle of Bull Run, this Confederate general counterattacked the Union and sent their troops in retreat:

Court case that ruled that voting rights remained a state matter not a federal one.

An organization formed in1865, by the federal govt. to provide assistance for former slaves