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terms, people, places for Reconstruction

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Radical Republicans   Group of legislators in Congress who wanted to break the political power of former slaveholders; also wanted former slaves to be given full citizenship and the right to vote  
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Thaddeus Stevens   Along with Charles Sumner, the leader of the Radical Republicans  
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Wade-Davis Bill   a bill that proposed that Congress, not the president, should be responsible for Reconstruction  
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Freedmen's Bureau   Government agency that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing food and clothes and building schools  
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Black Codes   discriminatory laws designed to severely restrict African Americans' activities  
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14th Amendment   made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the U.S.  
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impeach   to formally charge the President with misconduct in office  
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15th Amendment   said no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"  
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scalawag   white Southerners who joined the Republican Party  
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carpetbaggers   Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War  
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Hiram Revels   the first African-American senator  
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sharecropping   when a landowner divides land and gives a worker a few acres to work, along with seed and tools. At harvest time, each worker gives the landowner a share of his crop.  
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tenant farming   when someone rents land for cash from an owner and keeps all the harvest  
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Ku Klux Klan   organization, the goal of which was to restore white supremacy. Did so by intimidation and violence  
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Panic of 1873   Economic downturn that served to turn popular attention away from Reconstruction, especially in the North  
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Redemption   the phrase Democrats used to describe their return to power in the South  
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Rutherford Hayes   the person who was appointed president by Congress in exchange for removing Federal troops from the South  
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Samuel Tilden   the person who won the popular vote in the 1876 election  
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Compromise of 1877   the political deal that got Hayes elected and ended Reconstruction in the South  
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home rule   the ability to run state governments without federal intervention  
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