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SS: Ch. 18 Vocab
Vocab for US History Ch. 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Group of congressmen who favored using governmental power to create new order in the South and give free blacks full rights. | Radical Republicans |
| Process used by the federal government to readmit Confederate states to the Union. | Reconstruction |
| Federal agency established by the president which set up schools and hospitals as well as distributed clothes, food, and fuel. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Vice-president of Abraham Lincoln who became president after his assassination. He was a Democrat, and was the first president to be impeached. | Andrew Johnson |
| Laws passed by Southern states which limited the freedom of former slaves. | black codes |
| Rights granted to all citizens. | civil rights |
| Amendment which stated that all US citizens had the same rights. | Fourteenth Amendment |
| Schools set up to educate newly freed slaves. | freedmen's school |
| System where a worker rented a plot of land to farm in exchange for giving up a share of the crop. The system provided cheap labor for landowners and work for families. Often, debt and other problems rose from this system. | sharecropping |
| Secret group dedicated to restoring Democratic control of the South and suppressing the rights of former slaves. | Ku Klux Klan |
| Killing of a person on the spot without trial for a supposed crime. | lynch |
| Amendment that stated citizens could not be prevented from voting on account of race. | Fifteenth Amendment |
| Panic which caused economic depression and severely hurt the railroad industry. Several banks closed and the stock market collapsed. It was blamed on the Republicans, and during it, people lost interest in Reconstruction. | Panic of 1873 |
| Compromise which settled the election of 1876. Hayes became president, but the Republicans compromised on several important issues, while Democrats agreed to respect black rights. It ended Reconstruction. | Compromise of 1877 |