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EOC Recon. Ch. 12
terms, people, places for Reconstruction
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Thaddeus Stevens | Along with Charles Sumner, the leader of the Radical Republicans |
| Wade-Davis Bill | a bill that proposed that Congress, not the president, should be responsible for Reconstruction |
| Freedmen's Bureau | Government agency that assisted former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing food and clothes and building schools |
| Black Codes | discriminatory laws designed to severely restrict African Americans' activities |
| 14th Amendment | made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the U.S. |
| impeach | to formally charge the President with misconduct in office |
| 15th Amendment | said no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" |
| scalawag | white Southerners who joined the Republican Party |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War |
| Hiram Revels | the first African-American senator |
| 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. |
| tenant farming | when someone rents land for cash from an owner and keeps all the harvest |
| Ku Klux Klan | organization, the goal of which was to restore white supremacy. Did so by intimidation and violence |
| Panic of 1873 | Economic downturn that served to turn popular attention away from Reconstruction, especially in the North |
| Redemption | the phrase Democrats used to describe their return to power in the South |
| Rutherford Hayes | the person who was appointed president by Congress in exchange for removing Federal troops from the South |
| Samuel Tilden | the person who won the popular vote in the 1876 election |
| Compromise of 1877 | the political deal that got Hayes elected and ended Reconstruction in the South |
| home rule | the ability to run state governments without federal intervention |
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