15+Reconstruction


 * "Lost Cause" myth ||  ||
 * Fourteenth Amendment || Citizenship rights ||
 * Thirteenth Amendment || Slavery abolished ||
 * Three Reconstruction bill ||  ||
 * Freedmen's Bureau ||  ||
 * Fifteenth Amendment || Race no bar to vote ||
 * Radical Republicans ||  ||
 * Ex parte Milligan || application of military tribunals to citizens when civilian courts are still operating is unconstitutional ||
 * Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan ||  ||
 * Tenure of Office Act ||  ||
 * Wade-Davis Bill ||  ||
 * Johnson's Impeachment ||  ||
 * Andrew Johnson's Restoration Plan ||  ||
 * Black Codes ||  ||
 * Scalawags ||  ||
 * Civil Rights Act of 1866 ||  ||
 * Carpetbaggers ||  ||
 * Ulysses S. Grant and Grantism ||  ||
 * Minstrel shows ||  ||
 * Grant Scandals ||  ||
 * Uncle Remus stories ||  ||
 * Panic of 1873 ||  ||
 * Southern industrialization ||  ||
 * National Greenback Party ||  ||
 * Convict-lease system ||  ||
 * Seward's Folly ||  ||
 * Tenant farming and sharecroppers ||  ||
 * Ku Klux Klan ||  ||
 * Booker T. Washington ||  ||
 * Enforcement Acts ||  ||
 * Jim Crow ||  ||
 * Social Darwinism ||  ||
 * Plessy v. Ferguson || "seperate but equal" applied to public facilities; particularly an issue in schools (said that if the black schools were equal to the white schools, then they did not have to be racially integrated). Plessy's arguement was based on the fourteenth amendment (citizenship rights). ||
 * Rutherford B. Hayes ||  ||
 * White supremacy ||  ||
 * Compromise of 1877 || Hayes and Tilden were at a draw for the presidency; this unwritten compromise gave the presidency to Hayes on the condition that federal troops were removed from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana (thus the removal of federal troops from the South was complete). It also stipulated that at least one Southern Democrat would be on Hayes's cabinet (Keyes), another transcontinental railroad would be built with the Texas and Pacific, and that legislation to help industrialize the South would be passed. ||
 * Lynching ||  ||
 * Redeemer/Bourbon Rule ||  ||
 * Ida B. Wells || Black, female journalist/civil rights advocate. Major issues included the rights of blacks and women. ||