Flashcards › Reconstruction: Key Names

proposed a lenient 10% plan for Reconstruction Abraham Lincoln assassinated Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth first US president to be impeached Andrew Johnson elected president in 1868; his administration was marked by corruption Ulysses Grant Republican candidate; won the election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes Democratic candidate for president in 1876 Samuel Tilden leading Radical Republican in the House of Representatives Thaddeus Stevens led the Radical Republicans in the Senate Charles Sumner Conservative Democratic senator from South Carolina Ben Tillman first African American to serve a full term in the US Senate Blanche K. Bruce African American senator from Mississippi Hiram Revels group in Congress who led opposition to Andrew Johnson Radical Republicans people who wanted the South to change as little as possible Conservatives term used for those laws which segregated southern society "Jim Crow" accused of involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln Dr. Samuel Mudd Johnson's attempt to remove him from his Cabinet post led to Johnson's impeachment Edwin Stanton a secret society that intimidated African Americans Ku Klux Klan refused his former owner's suggestion that he return to the plantation on which he had lived Jourdon Anderson men and women who had been slaves freedmen African American woman who volunteered as a teacher of freed African Americans Charlotte Forten Some key figures, and groups, of the Reconstruction era will be matched with their descriptions.