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Ch18 MR
Question | Answer |
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This group of congressmen favored using federal power to create a new order in the South and to promote full citizenship for freed African Americans. | Radical Republicans |
the process the U.S. government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War. | Reconstruction |
a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War. | Freedmen's Bureau |
This man became prez. after Lincoln was killed. He rejected alot of bills from Congress because he thought it was the prez. job to conduct reconstruction, so this got him impeached. | Andrew Johnson |
a law passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves. | black codes |
rights granted to all citizens. | Civil Roghts |
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1868, that made all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former slaves—citizens of the country. | 14th Admentdment |
a school set up to educate newly freed African Americans | freedmen's schools |
a system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised. | Sharecropping |
a group formed in 1866 that wanted to restore Democratic control of the South and to keep former slaves powerless; the group called for a "racially and morally pure" America. | Ku Klux Klan |
killing them on the spot without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime. | lynched |
passed in 1870, this amendment to the U.S. Constitution stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." | Fifteenth Amendment |
a financial crisis in which banks closed and the stock market collapsed. | Panic of 1873 |
the agreement that resolved an 1876 election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes became president and then removed the last federal troops from the South. | Compromise of 1877 |