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HistB Ch 4-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |