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Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | The process of readmitting Confederate states to the Union. |
Freedman's 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 provivding equal rights for all U.S. citizens. |
Freedman'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. |
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. |