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Chapter 18 Vocab.
Chapter 18 Vocab. EL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This group of congressmen favored using federal power to create a new order in the South and to promote full citizenship for freed African Americans. | Radical Republicans |
| The process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War (1865-1877). | Reconstruction |
| A federal agency established by the president (Lincoln) to assist former slaves. It set up schools and hospitals for African Americans and distributed clothes, food, and fuel throughout the South. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Lincoln's vice president, a Democrat, who assumed presidency upon Lincoln's assassination. He believed Reconstruction was the president's job; his policies led to a break w/ Radical Republicans in Congress and his impeachment. He was acquitted by one vote | Andrew Johnson |
| Laws passed by Southern states which limited the freedom of former slaves. | Black codes |
| Rights granted to all citizens. | Civil rights |
| An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1868, that made all people born or naturalized in the U.S. citizens with equal rights that were to be granted "equal protection of the laws." | Fourteenth Amendment |
| A school set up to educate newly freed African Americans. Were started by the Freedmen's Bureau, Northern missionary groups, and African-American organizations. | Freedmen's school |
| A system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised. | Sharecropping |
| A group formed in 1866 that wanted to restore Democratic control of the South and keep former slaves powerless. | Ku Klux Klan |
| Killing people on the spot without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime. | Lynch |
| An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1870, which stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." | Fifteenth Amendment |
| A financial crisis in which banks closed and the stock market temporarily collapsed-this led to a depression. | Panic of 1873 |
| The agreement that resolved an 1876 presidential election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes (Rep.) became president and Reconstruction would end. | Compromise of 1877 |
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