Reconstruction To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds Bennett Chapter 11 Reconstruction To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds

Seward’s Folly Seward’s Icebox Alaska purchased from Russia

Andrew Johnson Democrat Southerner Not trusted by the Radical Republicans

13th Amendment Ended slavery in the U.S. Illinois was the first state to ratify the new amendment

14th Amendment Equal protection under the law Equal rights cannot be denied by the states

15th Amendment Guaranteed voting rights

End of Reconstruction Followed the Presidential Election of 1876 Hayes v. Tilden 20 Electoral votes in dispute in the South Commission awards them to Hayes and S. Dems approve “Compromise of 1877”

Freedmen’s Bureau Established to help the former slaves as they transitioned from slavery to freedom

1866 Riots Riots broke out in Memphis and New Orleans because Southerners refused to recognize the rights of and suffrage of Freedmen

Johnson’s Impeachment Tenure of Office Act Tried to fire Sec. of War

Scalawag White Southerners who voted Republican and or cooperated with Union officials

Carpetbaggers Northerners who came to the south to help work with reconstruction or try to get elected to office

Ku Kux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest Pulaski, TN

Homestead Act Land to western settlers Paid a registration fee and had to live on the land for 5 years and then it was yours.

Waving the Bloody Shirt Political tactic that was often used by the Republicans running for office

Ku Klux Klan Act Fed. crime to interfere with voting Fed. elections under jurisdiction of federal marshals KKK Act -Outlawed Klan activities Grant’s attempt to protect the rights of freedmen in the South