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Ch. 18 Vocab JX
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 US citizens | Fourteenth 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 Afican Americans full voting rights | Fifteenth Amendment |
Financial panic caused by failure of several powerful banks. | Panic of 1873 |
Deal between Replublicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president. | Compromise of 1877 |