History of the Americas Questions

What were ways that advances in agriculture helped life?

Right to vote for women, which started in the western territories with Wyoming in 1869, but would not be passed nationally until the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Radical Republican leader and reformer in the House of Representatives who supported a harsh Reconstruction policy and protecting the rights of African Americans.

Congressional controversy that involved a railroad company giving stocks to influential members of Congress to avoid investigation into illegal profits from government subsidies.

Radical Republican leader and reformer in the Senate who supported a harsh Reconstruction policy and protecting the rights of African Americans.

Politicians giving jobs and government favors (spoils) to people who supported them and helped them get elected.

Reform-minded Republicans who split from the corruption infested Grant administration and advocated for civil-service reform and withdrawing of troops from the South.

Editor of the New York Tribune and presidential candidate for reform-minded liberal Republicans in the election of 1872.

Name for Republican leaders who started to take charge in the early 1870s and were master political manipulators through patronage.

Wall Street financier who along with Jay Gould obtained the help of President Grant's brother-in-law in a scheme to corner the gold market, which was broken up eventually by the Treasury

Economic disaster during President Grant's second term caused by overspeculation in industry and railroads that rendered thousands of Northern laborers both jobless and homeless

Plan for rebuilding and readmitting the Southern states into the Union after the Civil War, which caused a great divide between President Johnson and Radical Republicans in Congress.

President Lincoln's lenient plan for Reconstruction that required oaths of allegiance to the Constitution and supporting the emancipation of slaves.

Boss of the local Democratic Party and associated political machine Tammany Hall in New York City who masterminded dozens of schemes for stealing taxpayer money.

Political cartoonist who exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in New York, which resulted in Tweed's arrest and imprisonment.

Secretary of War that was dismissed by President Johnson in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act, which led to Johnson's impeachment, but he avoided removal by one vote in the Senate.

Clause of the 14th amendment that requires all citizens be treated fairly according to established rules and principles under the law.

More restrictive Reconstruction plan passed by Congress, which was pocket-vetoed by President Lincoln.

Members of the Republican Party who demanded a harsh Reconstruction policy in order to punish the Southern states for seceding and protect the rights of African Americans.

Second round of Reconstruction dominated by Radical Republicans in Congress, who took steps to protect African Americans and prevent former Confederates from gaining power.