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Ch 18 vocab
Question | Answer |
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The process of readmitting Confederate states to the Union | Reconstruction |
Organization that helped former slaves | Freedmen's Bureau |
17th president | Andrew Johnson |
Laws limiting freedom of former slaves | black codes |
Congressmen who wanted the federal government to change Southern society | Radical Republicans |
Rights granted to all citizens | civil rights |
Amendment providing equal rights for all U.S. citizens | 14th Amendment |
A school set up to educate former slaves | freedmen's school |
System in which a landowner provided land to a farmer in return for a share of the crop | Sharecropping |
Group that sought to keep former slaves powerless | Ku Klux Klan |
To punish a person by killing him or her without a trial | lynch |
Gave African Americans full voting rights | 15th Amendment |
Financial panic caused by failure of several powerful banks | Panic of 1873 |
Deal between Republicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president | Compromise of 1877 |