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Ch. 18 Vocab. SA
Question | Answer |
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a congressman who, after the Civil War, favored using the government to create a new order in the South and to give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote. | Radical Republican |
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 |
president,democrat picked to help win support for border states,former slave-holder,did Reconstruction,offerned amnesty towards white Southerners/their property,let states decide blacks' voting rights,broke Radical Republicans,had impeachment trial. | Andrew Johnson |
a law passed by Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves. | black code |
rights granted to all citizens. | civil rights |
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. | Fourteenth Amendment |
a school set up to educate newly freed African Americans. | freedmen's school |
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. | Ku Klux Klan |
killing on the spot without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime. | lynch |
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 |