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21 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Johnson
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His administration was marked by reconstruction policies in the South and the purchase of Alaska (1867). An attempt to unseat Secretary of War Edwin Stanton led to Johnson's impeachment on purely political charges brought by Republican senators
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Reconstruction
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the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
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Ten-Percent Plan
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It decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when 10 percent of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation.
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Radical Republicans
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opposed Lincoln's "too easy" terms for reuniting the United States following the end of the Civil War.
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Senator Charles Sumner (MA)
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aggressive abolitionist, Sumner attacked the fugitive slave laws, denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and delivered antislavery speech called "The Crime against Kansas."
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Cong. Thaddeus Stevens
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Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner in the Senate were the leaders of the radical Republicans in Congress who opposed President Lincoln's moderate plan of Reconstruction
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Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
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proposed for the Reconstruction written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland,it required a majority in each Southern state to swear the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy
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pocket veto
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requires the President to sign or veto any legislation placed on his desk within ten days
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Scalawag
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a Southern white who joined the Republican party in the ex-Confederate South during Reconstruction
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Carpet baggers
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Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction
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suffrage
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right to vote
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Hiram Revels
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the first African American to serve in the United States Senate
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Ku Klux Klan
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organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy."
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Enforcement Acts of 1870 & 1871
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protect rights of southern blacks following the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as part of Reconstruction
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Amnesty Act (1872)
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a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists , except for military leaders of the Confederacy
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Credit Mobilier Affair
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as Union Pacific plunged into debt, Oakes Ames sought to prevent Congressional investigation by permitting leading members of Congress to buy Crédit Mobilier stock at greatly reduced prices
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Whiskey Ring Scandal
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a group of distillers and public officials who defrauded the federal government of liquor taxes
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Panic of 1873
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a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1877, by the bankruptcy of banking firm Jay Cooke and Company
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greenbacks
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A slang term used for the United States dollar
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"easy" ("soft") money
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funds spent by organizations (such as 527 groups) that are not contributed directly to candidate campaigns, and which do not "expressly advocate" the election or defeat of a candidate
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"hard" money
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regulated donations from individuals and political action committees
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