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CMS 8th SS Chp. 20

Chamberlain Middle School 8th grade SS Chapter 20

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offical pardon for illegal acts amnesty
federal agency established to provide relief for all poor people in the South Freedmen's Bureau
vice president under Abraham Lincoln who was sworn in a president after Lincoln's assassination Andrew Johnson
group in Congress that considered the Black Codes to be undemocratic and cruel Radical Republicans
one of the politicians who led the Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens
several acts that promoted the rights of African Americans by setting terms southern states had to meet to rejoin the union Reconstruction Acts
word used by Democrats to refer to white southern Republicans as liars and cheats scalawags
wanted to reduce the size of state governments and the rights of the African Americans Redeemers
laws that enforced segregation Jim Crow laws
system that allowed poor people to farm land they could not afford to rent or buy sharecropping
How was the southern economy affected by the Civil War? Many southerners faces starvation, A large part of the railroad system lay in ruins, Banks failed, and merchants went bankrupt.
The forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places was called legal segregation
What do the Thirteeth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have in common? They increased the rights of African Americans
Northern Republicans who moved to the South were often called carpetbaggers
Clashes over the Freedman's Bureau, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, thae Fourteenth Amendment, and the Recontruction Acts led to Congress's decision to impeach Andrew Johnson
Slavery became illegal throughout the United States with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment
The process of reuniting the nation and rebuilding the souther states without slavery was called Reconstruction
The Ku Klux Klan Used violence and terror to keep African Americans from exercising their civil rights
Which of the following led to the end of Reconstruction Compromise of 1877
The sharecropping system allowed poor people to farm on land they could not afford to buy or rent, enabled small farmers to hire people to work on their land, left many sharecroppers deeply in debt.
African Americans were welcomed everywhere as equals once the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified True or False False
Many Southerners eagerly supported Reconstuction True or False False
The Republican majority elected in 1866 greatly increased African Americans' civil rights True or False True
Reconstruction governments helped establish the first state-funded public school systems in the South True or False True
The New South movement sought to modernized the South True or False True
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