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Ch 18 EC
Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | The process of readmitting Confederate states to the Union |
Freedmen's bureau | Organization that hepled former slaves |
Andrew Johnson | 17th president, became president after Lincoln assasinated |
black codes | laws limiting the freedom of former slaves |
Radical republicans | congressmen who wanted the federal government to change Southern society |
civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
14th amendment | amendment providing equal rights for all US citizens |
freedmen's 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 |
Klu Klux Klan | group that sought to keep former slaves powerless |
lynch | to punish a person by killing him or her without a trial |
15th amendment | gave african americans full voting rights |
Panic of 1873 | financial panic caused by failure of several pwerful banks |
Compromise of 1877 | deal between republicans and democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president |