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Reconstruction
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Andrew Johnson | abrahams vice president when abraham died Andrew was sworn in to office quickly Reconstruction was now his responseibility |
| Freedmens bureau | an agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the south |
| Reconstruction | the process of readmitting the former confederate states to the union |
| Black codes | laws that greatly limited the freedoms of african americans |
| Radical | wanted the federal governments to be much more involved in reconstruction |
| Fourteenth amendment | It allowed minorities to do schooling and education |
| Republican | Most republicans were moderate who wanted the south to have loyal state governments |
| Impeach | is the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing to a public official |
| Thaeddus Stevens | he was a radical republican who favored the fourteenth amendment |
| Wade-Davis Bill | that congress should control the southern states not the president |
| Scalawag | Democrats who joined republican party in order to manipulate new black voters |
| Carpetbagger | Northerners who migrated to the south in order to establish themselves. |
| Hiram Revels | Mississippi 1st black senator |
| Sharecropping | In exchange for land to work workers gave up portions of crop fields |
| Tenant Farming | Workers bought land and worked it being able to keep what they farmed. |
| Ku Klux Klan | Formed in western tennessee by general forrest who had checkered his own war history |
| Samuel J. Tilden | Tilden won the popular vote |
| Panic of 1873 | Lack of one stable currency |
| Compromise of 1877 | Was reached to settle the dispute of 1876 |
| Redemption | regaining or gaining possession in exchange for payment |
| Home Rule | South has a lot of power to do what they want without interference from the federal government |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | he led the country through the end of reconstruction |