US: Reconstruction

Pay rent with a portion of crops instead of money

Pardon or forgiveness

Series of laws in the South that severely limited the rights of African Americans

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War; seen as intruders

Former slaves who followed Union troops seeking food and shelter

Republican presidential nominee in 1877 who was elected by commission by agreeing to compromise

Where Rutherford B. Hayes was from

Severe economic crisis caused by bad RR investments that resulted in small businesses

Government agency set up to help former slaves with job, food, homes, education, etc.

Passed by Congress that stated the Senate has to approve all removal of govt officials

Trapped sharecroppers on land b/c they could not make enough money to pay leave

Illegally obtaining money and bribes

Paying rent in exchange for being able to farm the land

Leader of the Radical Republicans

President does not sign a bill before Congress goes on recess

Realization that the southern states need to focus on industry instead of agriculture

Legislation that outlawed the actions of the KKK

Divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts with a general in charge of each one

Influential newspaper editor who ran for president as a Republican

Not a state that had large numbers of African American voters b/c of protection of Union troops

Merchants taking crops to cover debt

Where Andrew Johnson was form; Fisk University is located

High taxes on alcohol and tobacco

Group that wanted to regain of South for Democrats; terrorize Republicans and African Americans

Secretary of War who accepted bribes from merchants at army posts in the West

Means to rebuild

Irish term for weak, underfed, worthless animals; Southerners who supported Reconstruction

Former Vice President of the Confederacy who was elected to Congress

This granted citizenship to all persons in the United States, except Native Americans

Group who resisted Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan and wanted harsh punishments for the South

Former VP who became president; almost impeached b/c ppl disagreed with his Reconstruction plan

Group of government officials that filed false taxes, costing the fed government millions of $

Democrats’ nominee for president in 1877

Location of Atlanta University and Morehouse College

Head of the Army who was later elected president, but his presidency was marred by scandal

Issued goods to customers on credit with interest as high as 40%

Granted the right to vote for all citizens

Passed by Lincoln that outlined what states needed to do to be brought back into the Union

Compromise b/t moderates & radicals that allowed former Conf states to set up new government

He had moderate plan for Reconstruction right after the Civil War began

Name of the plan that moderates and radicals came up with for readmission of Southern states

Removal of Union troops helped elect Hayes as president

Charge with “high crimes and misdemeanors”