Carpet Baggers - correct answer ✔✔Northerners who traveled south just to make money off the
Reconstruction. They were called this because their suitcases were usually made from carpet.
Scalawags - correct answer ✔✔A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to
buy up land from desperate Southerners
William T. Sherman - correct answer ✔✔A successful Union general who implemented the tactic of
"total war" in order to defeat the South. Led successful military campaign to conquer Georgia, South
Carolina, and North Carolina.
Field Order number 15 - correct answer ✔✔A mandate issued by General sherman that said the Sea
islands and the coastal region south of Charleston by divided into parcels of 40 acres for individual freed
families.
Sea Islands - correct answer ✔✔Lands were issued to freed slaves and their families as a part of a
temporary plan granting each freed family forty acres of tillable land from this location.
Benjamin Wade - correct answer ✔✔Radical republican who endorsed woman's suffrage, rights for labor
unions, and civil rights for northern blacks
Henry Davis - correct answer ✔✔Republican Representative - Wade Davis Bill: states had to ban slavery
and take a loyalty oath to join the Union
Wade-Davis Bill - correct answer ✔✔an 1864 plan for Reconstruction that denied the right to vote or
hold office for anyone who had fought for the Confederacy...Lincoln refused to sign this bill thinking it
was too harsh.
Andrew Johnson - correct answer ✔✔17th president of the United States, came to office after Lincoln's
assassination and opposed Radical Republicans; he was impeached
, Freedman's Bureau - correct answer ✔✔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
Black Codes - correct answer ✔✔Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by
southern states following the Civil War
Mississippi Plan - correct answer ✔✔1890 - In order to vote in Mississippi, citizens had to display the
receipt which proved they had paid the poll tax and pass a literacy test by reading and interpreting a
selection from the Constitution. Prevented blacks, who were generally poor and uneducated, from
voting.
Sharecropping - correct answer ✔✔After the Civil War former landowners "rented" plots of land to
blacks and poor whites in such a way that the renters were always in debt and therefore tied to the land.
Peonage - correct answer ✔✔the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is
discharged
Rutherford B. Hayes - correct answer ✔✔19th President, ended reconstruction by removing federal
troops, disputed Tilden/Hayes election resulted in the Compromise of 1877
Samuel Tilden - correct answer ✔✔A New York lawyer who rose to fame by bagging big boss Tweed, a
notorious New York political boss in New York. Tilden was nominated for President in 1876 by the
Democratic party because of his clean up image. This election was so close that it led to the compromise
of 1877. Even though Tilden had more popular votes the compromise gave presidency to the
Republicans and allowed the Democrats to stop reconstruction in the south.
Central Paciific Railroad - correct answer ✔✔First Transcontinental Railroad in North America, Between
California and Utah
Union Pacific Railroad - correct answer ✔✔..., A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with
the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH
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