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Ch 18 Vocabulry
Chapter 18 Vocab Sect 1, 2, 3, 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reconstruction | the process of readmitting Confederate states into the Union |
| Freedmen's Bureau | organization that helped former slaves |
| Andrew Johnson | 17th president |
| black codes | laws limiting freedom of former slaves |
| Radical Republicans | congressmen who wanted the federal government to change southern society |
| civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| 14th amendment | amendment providing equal rights for all US citizens |
| freedman's school | a school set up to educate former slaves |
| sharecropping | system in which a landowner provided land to a farmer in return for a share of the crop |
| Ku Klux Klan | group that sought to keep former slaves powerless |
| lynch | to punish a person by killing him or her w/o a trial |
| 15th amendment | gave African Americans full voting rights |
| Panic of 1873 | financial panic caused by failure of several powerful banks |
| Compromise of 1877 | deal between Republicans and Democrats that allowed Rutherford Hayes to become president |