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Reconstruction
Chapter 12 history test 9th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | the period of rebuilding that followed the civil war, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the union |
| Radical Republicans | one of the congressional republicans who after the civil war wanted to destroy the political power of former slave holders and give african americans full citizenship and right to vote |
| wade davis bill | bill passed in 1864 and vetoed by pres lincoln that would've given Congress control of reconstruction |
| freedman's bureau | a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war |
| black codes | discriminatory laws passed throughout the post civil war south severely restricting african american lives, prohibiting travel without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying and marrying whites |
| 14th amendment | adopted in 1868 makes all people born/naturalized in the us, including former slaves, citizens and guaranteeing equal protection |
| impeach | to formally charge an official with misconduct in office, house of representatives has sole power to impeach federal officials |
| 15th amendment | adopted in 1870 prohibits denial of voting rights to people because of race/color or because they are former slaves |
| scalawag | a white southerner who joined the republican party after the civil war |
| carpetbagger | a northerner who moved to the south after the civil war |
| sharecropping | system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise |
| tenant farming | system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash |
| kkk | secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the civil war |
| panic of 1873 | a series of financial failures that triggered a 5 year depression in the us |
| redemption | the southern democrats' term for their return to power in the south in the 1870s |
| compromise of 1877 | series of congressional measures where the democrats accepted the republican candidate rutherford b hayes as president even though he lost the popular vote |
| home rule | a state's power of governing its citizens without federal government |
| jim crow laws | state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States |
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