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Ch 18-Reconstruction
U.S. History Vocab - Quilty
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Radical Republicans | congressman who favored using Federal power to rebuild the South and promote African American rights |
| Reconstruction | period from 1865 to 1877 in which the U.S. government attempted to rebuild Southern society and governments |
| Freedmen's Bureau | federal agency set up to help former enslaved people |
| Andrew Jackson | Democrat who became president after Lincoln was assassinated |
| black codes | laws that limiteed the freedom of former enslaved people |
| Fourteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment that made all people born int he U.S. (including former slaves) citizens |
| scalawag | white Southerner who supported Radical Reconstruction |
| carpetbagger | Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to participate in reconstruction |
| amnesty | official pardon |
| civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| impeach | to formally accuse the president of misconduct in office |
| veto | to prevent from becoming law |
| freedmen's school | school set up to educate newly freed African Americans |
| sharecropping | system under which landowners gave poor farmers seed, tools, and land to cultivate in exchange for part of their harvest |
| Ku Klux Klan | secret group that used violence to try to restore Democratic control of the South and keep African Americans powerless |
| lynch | to kill by hanging without due process of law |
| plantation | large form group that raises cash crops |
| Fifteenth Amendment | constitutional amendment that stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting 'on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude' |
| Panic of 1873 | financial panic in which banks closed and the stock market crashed |
| Compromise of 1877 | agreement that decided the 1876 presidential election |
| stock market | place where shares of ownership in companies are bought and sold |
| depression | time of low business activity and high unemployment |
| compromise | settlement of differences in which each side gives up something it wants |
| Ulysses S. Grant | former Union general |
| electoral votes | votes made by members of the Electoral College,which elects the president and vice president |
| amendment | formal alteration or addition to the constitution |
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