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Wade-Davis Bill
Bill requiring majority of adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. -
Formation of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan formed to rebel against the "Black Republicans" because they believed the Northerners forced these governments on them. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Begins feeding and clothing wawr refugees in the South using surplus army supplies. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law." -
African Americans able to participate in politics
African Americans began campaigning and males could now vote. -
Sin Taxes
Taxes that helped the government pay off the bonds that had been issued to pay for the Civil War. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
All Confederate States Rejoin the Union
Through the congressional Reconstruction plan, the Republican party took power and introduced major reforms. -
Comprehensive Public School System in South
Freedmen's Bureau established schools for African Americans across the South. -
Ku Klux Klan Act
Outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Panic of 1873
Economic crisis in which dozens of smaller banks closed and the stock market plummeted. -
Whiskey Ring
A scandal by a group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis, Missouri that cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports. -
Compromise of 1877
A promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the South if Hayes were elected. -
Debt Peonage
Trapping of sharecroppers on the land because they could not make enough money to pay off their debts and leave nor could they declare bankruptcy.
