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Chapter 18 Civil War
Question | Answer | Date |
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Freedmen's Schools | schools for Aferican Amer.children often went home and taught their parents | |
Share Cropping | worker rents land, land owner provides seed, tools & housing. At harvest land owner and worked shared. Owner wanted cash crops worker wanted food crops. | |
Ku Klux Klan | Secret Group. Klans goals were to restore Democratic control of the south and keep former slaves powerless | 1866 |
15th Amendnent | Citezens could not be stopped from voting on account of theor race. Did not apply to Native Amer. on tribal lands | |
Panic of 1873 | Banks across the land closed. Stock Market temporarily collaposed. Panic caused economic depression. Railroad Indut. suffered. Panic lasted 5 years. Nation was losing instrest in Reconstruction. Republicans weaken & the Democrats won in Cong. & State. | |
Compromise of 1877 | (Hayes Pres) Gov't to remove fed. troops from South. Gov't provide land grants. South to get funds for construction. Hayes to appoint Demo to cabinet. Dems promised to respect Aferican Amer. civil and political rights. | |
Civil Rights | rights granted to all citizens. All persons born in the U.S. except Native Americans. | |
Reconstruction | process to readmit confederate states lasted fron 1865-1877 | |
Lynched | hanged, no trial, practiced by the Ku Klux Klan | |
Freedmen's Breau | Established by Lincoln to set up schools & hospitals for Aferican Amer. and send representives to congress | |
Andrew Johnson | Pres. when Lincoln was killed. A democrat, fromer slave holder, unlike Lincoln stubborn and unyeilding. Belived Reconstruction was a job of Pres. not congress. Johnson offered amnesty to the south | |
Black Codes | laws passed by the South that limited the freedom of former slaves. | |
14th Admendment | All citizens were granted "equal protection of the laws" everyone has the same rights | 1866 |