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Ch.18 Vocabulary JK
Question | Answer |
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Congressmen who favored the use of federal power to create a new order in the South and promote full citizenship for freed blacks. | Radical Republicans |
Process federal gov. used to readmit Conf. states to Union from 1865-1877. | Reconstruction |
Federal agency that aided blacks by setting up schools and hospitals and distributed food, clothes, and fuel. | Freedmen's Bureau |
VP of Lincoln who became president-Reconstruction is job of president-Democrat, VP b/c support of border states in election. | Andrew Jackson |
Laws passed by the South that limited freedom of freedmen. | black codes |
Rights granted to all citizens. | civil rights |
Proposed in 1866-all born in U.S. are citizens and have same rights-vetoed by Johnson, overrode veto. | Fourteenth Amendment |
Schools formed by the Freedmen's Bureau, Af.-Am. organizations, or N. missionary groups-taught freedmen to read and write. | freedmen's school |
A system where farmers work borrowed land and pay for supplies with crops-often results in a cycle of poverty. | sharecropping |
A group in 1866 that attacked Af.-Am. and tried to prevent them from voiting-goal is Democratic control of South. | Ku Klux Klan |
Killing victims on the spot without a trial. | lynch |
Stated all citizens of U.S. cannot be stopped from voting based on race, color, previous condition of servitude-ratified 1870. | Fifteenth Amendment |
A panic in 1873 that resulted from bad loans in Eastern banks and affected almost all parts of the economy-allowed Democrats to win 1874 elections. | Panic of 1873 |
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes is president-remove fed. troops from South, Demo. respect Af.-Am. rights, etc. | Compromise of 1877 |