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Ch.#18
Ch.18 BN
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Radical Republicans | Group of congressmen favored using federal power to create a new order in the South and to promote full citizenship for freed African Americans |
| Reconstruction | the 1865-1877 process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union |
| Freedman's Bureau | federal agency set up schools and hospitals for African Americans and distributed clothes, food and fuel throughout the South |
| Andrew Johnson | vice president until Lincoln's assassination and became the president and offered amnesty |
| black codes | laws by southern states to limit the freedom of former slaves |
| civil rights | rights granted to all citizens |
| Fourteenth Amendment | 1866 all people born in the US were citizens and had the same rights. All citizens were to be granted "equal protection of the law", but didnt establish black suffrage. |
| freedmen's school | set up to educate newly freed African Americans |
| sharecropping | a worker that rents a plot of land to farm. land owner provides supplies, and in harvest, sharecropper gives owner a share of the crop. Gave families a place to farm and landowners cheap labor |
| Ku Klux Klan | 1866 secret group t restore Democratic control in the South and keep former slaves powerless |
| Fifteenth Amendment | citizens could not be stopped from voting "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."(didnt apply to Native Americans on tribal land) and ratified in 1870 |
| Panic of 1873 | banks across the land closed and stock market temporarily collapsed which caused an economic depression and railroad companies and farmers suffered as well leading to high unemployment |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes became president but the Republican would have to compromise with the Southern Democrats in many issues |