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Lincoln Plan


Johnson Plan

A plan that gave pardon to all those who took loyalty oaths. It punished plantation owners and forced states to abolish slavery before readmittance.

Black Codes


Congressional Plan

one vote per district of state and winner of popular vote in the state would get 2 extra votes for that state

Tenure of Office Act

required the president to secure consent of the Senate before removing appointees once they had been approved


charges against a president approved by a majority of the house of representatives


southern whites who supported republican policy throught reconstruction

Carpet Baggers

name given to Southerners allied with northern Republicans who came south to take part in the region's political and economic rebirth.

Freedmen's Bureau




Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877

presidential election in which Hayes is elected because he says he will remove the troops from the south that are there to protect freedmen.

Jim Crow

Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government

Plessy vs. Ferguson


Chivington Massacre

1864 massacre, where Colonel John Chivington and his militia slaughtered more than 200 cheyenne men, women, and children, who were trying to surrender

Buffalo Soldiers


Battle of Little Bighorn

In 1876, Indian leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Custer's troops who tried to force them back on to the reservation, Custer and all his men died

Dawes Act

An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism.

Wounded Knee


Pacific Railway Act


Homestead Act



Settlers who ran in land races to claim land upon the 1889 opening of Indian Territory for settlement


In 1889, people who illegally claimed land by sneaking past government officials before the land races began


A rich mass of ore in a mine; something very valuable, profitable, or rewarding; a source of wealth or prosperity; a very large amount; sudden profit or gain

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