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Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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Andrew Johnson | abrahams vice president when abraham died Andrew was sworn in to office quickly Reconstruction was now his responseibility |
Freedmens bureau | an agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the south |
Reconstruction | the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union |
Black codes | laws that greatly limited the freedoms of african americans |
Radical | wanted the federal governments to be much more involved in reconstruction |
Fourteenth amendment | It allowed minorities to do schooling and education |
Republican | Most republicans were moderate who wanted the south to have loyal state governments |
Impeach | is the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing to a public official |
Thaeddus Stevens | he was a radical republican who favored the fourteenth amendment |
Wade-Davis Bill | that congress should control the southern states not the president |
Scalawag | Democrats who joined republican party in order to manipulate new black voters |
Carpetbagger | Northerners who migrated to the south in order to establish themselves. |
Hiram Revels | Mississippi 1st black senator |
Sharecropping | In exchange for land to work workers gave up portions of crop fields |
Tenant Farming | Workers bought land and worked it being able to keep what they farmed. |
Ku Klux Klan | Formed in western tennessee by general forrest who had checkered his own war history |
Samuel J. Tilden | Tilden won the popular vote |
Panic of 1873 | Lack of one stable currency |
Compromise of 1877 | Was reached to settle the dispute of 1876 |
Redemption | regaining or gaining possession in exchange for payment |
Home Rule | South has a lot of power to do what they want without interference from the federal government |
Rutherford B. Hayes | he led the country through the end of reconstruction |