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Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | The process of readdmitting Confederate states back into the union |
Freedmans bureau | organization that helped former slaves |
andrew johnson | 17th president |
black codes | laws limiting freedom of former slaves |
radical republicans | congressmen who wanted the federal government to change southern society |
civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
fourteenth amendment | amendment providing equal rights for all US citizens |
freedmens school | a school set up to educate former slaves |
sharecropping | system in which a landowner provided land to a farmer in return for a share of the crop |
ku klux klan | group that sought to keep former slaves powerless |
lynch | to punish a person by killing him or her without a trial |
fifteenth amendment | gave african americans full voting rights |
panic of 1873 | financial panic caused by failure of several powerful banks |
compromise of 1877 | deal between republicans and democrats that allowed rutherford hayes to become president |