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ch. 18 ws
Question | Answer |
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Reconstruction | the process the U.S. government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War. |
Freedmen's Bureau | This federal agency set up schools and hospitals for African Americans and distributed clothes, food, and fuel throughout the South. |
Andrew Johnson | When Lincoln was killed in April 1865, Vice–President _________ became president. _________ was a Democrat. |
black codes | limited the freedom of former slaves. |
civil rights | rights granted to all citizens. |
Fourteenth Amendment | It stated that all people born in the United States were citizens and had the same rights. All citizens were to be granted “equal protection of the laws.” However, the amendment did not establish black suffrage. |
freedmen's schools | set up to educate newly freed African Americans. Such schools were started by the Freedmen's Bureau, Northern missionary groups, and African-American organizations. |
sharecropping | a system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raised. |
Ku Klux Klan | The Klan's goals were to restore Democratic control of the South and keep former slaves powerless. |
lynched | killing them on the spot without a trial as punishment for a supposed crime. |
Fifteenth Amendment | stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” (This amendment, like the Fourteenth Amendment, did not apply to Native Americans on tribal lands.) The amendment was ratified in 1870. |
Panic of 1873 | a financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed. |
Compromise of 1877 | the agreement that resolved an 1876 election dispute: Rutherford B. Hayes became president and then removed the last federal troops from the South. |