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HistB Ch 4-4
Question | Answer |
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Freedmen’s Bureau | established by congress to help former slaves in the south |
Reconstruction | U.S. rebuilds, readmits South into Union |
Radical Republicans | consider plan too lenient |
Andrew Johnson | Lincoln’s successor, forms own plan |
• Fourteenth Amendment | grants full citizenship to African Americans |
Grant | elected president wins 9 of 10 African-American votes |
Fifteenth Amendment | protects voting rights of African Americans |
Scalawags | white Southerners, mostly farmers who joined Republicans |
Carpetbaggers | Northern Republicans, moved to the South after the war |
Hiram Revels | first black senator |
Sharecropping | farm land owned by another, keep only part of crops |
Ku Klux Klan | southern vigilante group, wants to destroy Republicans |