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(1820-1906) An early leader of the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement, co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stnaton in 1869.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Charles Sumner
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Thaddeus Stevens
- A clergyman and teacher who became the nation's first black senator inHe completed the term of Jefferson Davis.
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Hiram Revels
  • Scalawags
  • Thaddeus Stevens
Acts passed to promote African American voting and mainly aimed at limiting the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Through the acts, actions committed with the intent to influence voters, prevent them from voting, or conspiring to deprive them of civil rights, including life, were made federal offenses. Thus the federal government had the power to prosecute the offenses, including calling federal juries to hear the cases.
  • Force Acts
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Civil Rights Bill
This Act was passed by Congress which was vetoed by President Johnson. This Act invalidated the state govn'ts formed under the Lincoln & Johnson plans and all the legal decisions made by those govn'ts.
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Reconstruction Act
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Civil Rights Bill
the African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South
  • Exodusters
  • Labor Contracts
  • Black Codes
  • William Seward
1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Civil Rights Bill
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Tenure of Office Act
Freedmen had to sign agreements in January for a year work. Those who quit in the middle of a contract often lost all their wages they had earned
  • Labor Contracts
  • Black Codes
  • Blanche K. Bruce
  • William Seward
1867; divided the South into five districts and placed them under military rule; required Southern States to ratify the 14th amendment; guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in convention to write new state constitutions
  • Blanche K. Bruce
  • Moderate Republics
  • William Seward
  • Military Reconstruction
the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
  • Sharecropping
  • Reconstruction
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Carpetbaggers
1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Reconstruction
  • Freedman's Bureau
  • Carpetbaggers
A leader of the Radical republicans along with Thaddeus Stevens. He was from Massachusetts and was in the senate. His two main goals were breaking the power of wealthy planters and ensuring that freedmen could vote
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Charles Sumner
  • Hiram Revels
  • Carpetbaggers
Howard was a Civil War general who took part in the Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga campaigns. As commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau after the war, he was unable to prevent many abuses to freedmen, but managed to provided needed food and medical and employment aid to many people.
  • General Oliver O. Howard
  • Scalawags
  • Thaddeus Stevens
  • William Seward
union general who gave blacks freedom in conquered areas before Emancipation
  • Benjamin F. Butler
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Hiram Revels
  • Thaddeus Stevens
1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from removing a radical republican from his cabinet
  • Reconstruction Act
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Civil Rights Bill
  • Tenure of Office Act
After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.
  • Woman's Loyal League
  • Radical Republicans
  • Civil Rights Bill
  • Reconstruction
To take away the right to vote
  • Labor Contracts
  • Disfranchise
  • William Seward
  • Black Codes
1864 Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms for reconstruction; required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-confederates to vote for a new state constitution; Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it after Congress adjourned.
  • Civil Rights Bill
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Force Acts
  • Wade-Davis Bill
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political or economic advantage from the disorganized situation in southern states;
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Scalawags
  • Sharecropping
  • Ku Klux Klan
A bill passed by Congress in March 1866 as a measure against the Black Codes to reinforce black rights to citizenship. It was vetoed by Johnson and was later passed as the 14th Amendment.
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Civil Rights Bill
  • Reconstruction Act
Reconstruction-Era African American organization that worked to educate Southern blacks about civic life, built black schools and churches, and represented African American interests before government and employers. It also campaigned on behalf of Republican candidates and recruited local militias to protect blacks from white intimidation.
  • Scalawags
  • Union League
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Freedman's Bureau
Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
  • "Andy Veto"
  • Labor Contracts
  • Black Codes
  • Blanche K. Bruce
A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.
  • Tenure of Office Act
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Force Acts
  • Fifteenth Amendment
First church established by black people for black people. Provided a means for black people to worship but also to provide social services like education/child care/ sustenance for members of the church.
  • Union League
  • Freedman's Bureau
  • American Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Ku Klux Klan
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
  • Carpetbaggers
  • Sharecropping
  • Scalawags
  • Reconstruction
An American politician. Bruce represented Mississippi as a U.S. Senator from 1875 to 1881 and was the first black to serve a full term in the Senate.
  • Blanche K. Bruce
  • Moderate Republics
  • Black Codes
  • Labor Contracts
a republican group: didn't want to punish the south much, but still wanted freedom for the freedmen
  • Exodusters
  • Blanche K. Bruce
  • William Seward
  • Moderate Republics
(1815-1902) A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York inIssued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869.
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Charles Sumner
  • General Oliver O. Howard
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