AP US History 1 Chapters 20-22 Vocabulary

Introduced by President Lincoln, it proposed that a state be readmitted to the Union once 10 percent of its voters had pledged loyalty to the United States and promised to honor emancipation

• "10%" Reconstruction Plan
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Woman's Loyal League
• New York City Draft Riots

Laws passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of emancipated blacks, particularly with respect to negotiating labor contracts. Increased Northerners' criticisms of President Andrew Johnson's lenient Reconstruction policies.

• Ex parte Milligan
• Black Codes
• conscription
• Confederacy

During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, this nickname was given to Northerners who moved south to seek their fortune out of the destruction. Some went southward to help, others to scam.

• Redeemers
• Wade-Davis Bill
• carpetbaggers
• Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War

Passed over Andrew Johnson's veto, the bill aimed to counteract the Black Codes by conferring citizenship on African Americans and making it a crime to deprive blacks of their rights to sue, testify in court, or hold property.

• Union League
• Ku Klux Klan
• Woman's Loyal League
• Civil RIghts Bill

Civil War Era case in which the Supreme Court ruled that military tribunals could not be used to try civilians if civil courts were open.

• Ex parte Milligan
• Scalawags
• Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction)
• Reform Bill of 1867

Prohibited states from denying citizens the franchise on account of race. It disappointed feminists who wanted the Amendment to include guarantees for women's suffrage.

• Union League
• Fifteenth Amendment
• conscription
• sharecropping

Passed by Congress following a wave of Ku Klux Klan violence, the acts banned clan membership, prohibited the use of intimidation to prevent blacks from voting, and gave the U.S. military the authority to enforce the acts.

• "10%" Reconstruction Plan
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Force Acts
• Tenure of Office Act

Constitutional amendment that extended civil rights to freedmen and prohibited states from taking away such rights without due process.

• greenback
• Ku Klux Klan
• carpetbaggers
• Fourteenth Amendment

Created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support. Its achievements were uneven and depended largely on the quality of local administrators

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Scalawags
• Pacific Railroad Act
• Civil RIghts Bill

An extremist, paramilitary, right-wing secret society founded in the mid-nineteenth century and revived during the 1920s. It was anti-foreign, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-evolutionist, and anti-bootlegger, but pro-Anglo-Saxon and pro-Protestant. Its members, cloaked in sheets to conceal their identities, terrorized freedmen and sympathetic whites throughout the South after the Civil War.

• Redeemers
• Ku Klux Klan
• Seward's Folly
• Reform Bill of 1867