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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction | The process of readdmitting Confederate states back into the union |
| Freedmans 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 |
| fourteenth amendment | amendment providing equal rights for all US citizens |
| freedmens 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 without a trial |
| fifteenth 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 |