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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Freedman's Bureau | an agency providing relief for the freedpeople ands certain poor people in the south |
| Black Codes | or laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans |
| Ulysses S Grant | as a war hero, grant appealed to many northern voters. he had no political experience but supported the congressional reconstruction plan. He ran under the slogan "Let Us Have Peace" |
| Andrew Johnson | vice president and was sworn into office quickly. reconstruction had now become his responsibility. |
| Thaddeus Stevens | was one of the new reconstruction acted most enthusiastic supporters. He spoke in Congress to defend the acts. |
| Radical Republicans | on the other hand, took a harsher stance. They wanted to federal government to force change in the south. |
| Reconstruction Acts | these laws divided the south into five districts |
| impeachment | is the process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrong doing against a public official. |
| Thirteenth Amendment | this amendment make slavery illegal throughout the united states. |
| Fifteenth Amendment | Gave African Americans the right to vote. |
| Hiram Revels | was born free in North Carolina and went to college in Illinois, became a methodist minister and served as a chaplain in the Union Army. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that enforced segregation |
| Poll Tax | special tax people paid before they could vote. |
| Segregation | forced separation of white and African Americans in public places. |
| Republican | is a party of the United States Government |
| Ku Klux Klan | this secret society opposed civil rights, particularly suffrage for African Americans |
| Civil rights Act of 1866 | This act provided African Americans with the same illegal rights as white americans. |
| Sharecropping | sharing the crop. Landowners provided the Land tools and supplies when the sharecroppers provided the labor. |
| Total War | destroying the civilian and economic resources |
| African Americans | former slaves who were judged by the color of her skin and wasnt allowed to do most things a white american could until people acted upon it. |