Unit 5 Vocabulary

period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War, during which the defeated Confederate states were re-admitted to the Union.

• Anaconda Plan
• Compromise of 1877
• Reconstruction
• Antebellum Period

bill prohibited the president from removing officials appointed by and with the advice of the Senate without senatorial approval.

• 15th Amendment
• Tenure of Office Act
• Black Codes
• 13th Amendment

drafting of citizens for military service

• habeas corpus
• conscription
• Black Codes
• Reconstruction

organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War

• KKK
• Freedmans Bureau
• John Brown's Raid
• Conscription

system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states

• Black Codes
• Reconstruction
• Underground Railroad
• Oregon Trail

series of congressional measures under which the Democrats agreed to accept the Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, as president, even though he had lost the popular vote—included the withdrawal of federal troops from Southern states, federal money for improving Southern infrastructure, and the appointment of a conservative Southern cabinet member

• Reconstruction Act of 1861
• Compromise of 1877
• Tenure of Office Act
• Election of 1860

executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.

• Gettysburg Address
• Inagural Address
• Emancipation Proclamation

three-part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.

• KKK
• Anaconda Plan
• Reconstruction
• Underground Railroad

federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War.

• Morehouse College
• Freedmans Bureau
• Black Codes
• Reconstruction

discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South which severely restricted African Americans’ lives.

• Anaconda Plan
• Freedman's Bureau
• KKK
• Black Codes