Wade Davis Bill – Flashcards

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.

Law created by Radical Republicans that was originally vetoed by Johnson but overridden by Congress; established harsher requirements for Confederate states; divided Southern states into military districts; required states to vote to ratify 14th amendment

made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country

Requirement of Senate consent before a president can dismiss a cabinet member

Who was the leader the leader of the first KKK?

Construction company for the Union Pacific Railroad that gave shares of stock to some congressmen in return for favors

Democratic candidate for presidency in 1876 won popular vote but was one vote short in electoral college, as compromise the republican candidate (Hayes) became president if troops were withdrawn from South ending the Reconstruction era

people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop

The constitutional amendment adopted in 1870 to extend suffrage to African Americans.

system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter